When Is Good Faith Good?

What are you doing here? The Confirm Them blog is the place to be tonight. But since you're here, let's focus on this section of the Memorandum of Capitulation ... er, Understanding:

A. Future Nominations. Signatories will exercise their responsibilities under the Advice and Consent Clause of the United States Constitution in good faith. Nominees should only be filibustered under extraordinary circumstances, and each signatory must use his or her own discretion and judgment in determining whether such circumstances exist.

Would any of the 45 Democratic senators admit that they have done anything in bad faith since the start of the judicial nomination debate? Of course not! That makes this capitulation a carte blanche to Dems to misrepresent, defame, stonewall, leak confidential information and deny the President any reasonable expectation of receiving anything remotely approaching "advise and consent."

It turns my stomach that after all we've seen, seven GOP senators have any trust remaining for the Dems, and would grant them any discretion based on good faith, or trust them to define "extraordinary circumstances" in any manner that is remotely honest.

This debacle bodes very, very badly for any upcoming Supreme Court nominee or nominees, and for the 2006 elections.