Didn't take Dems long to show bad faith on anti filibuster pact

NY Times:

The filibuster is far from dead in the Senate.

Putting a fitting exclamation point on weeks of bitter partisan fighting, Democrats initiated a stunningly successful procedural attack on Thursday against one of President Bush's high-profile nominees, just days after an unusual compromise averted a showdown over the right to filibuster judicial candidates.

The vote against cutting off debate over the confirmation of John R. Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations, just as Congress was recessing for Memorial Day, left Republicans fuming and showed there is still some distance to travel to reach the new spirit of Senate comity that some believed was represented in the judicial pact announced Monday.

"It lasted about a day and a half," said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the No. 2 Republican.

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