In talking to Alex last night I realized that a lot of my frustration with non-proliferation treaty reached in the Senate yesterday is that it feels suspiciously like the end of the Matrix trilogy: Disaster averted, the plucky humans have signed a treaty! Which the horrible machines could easily break at any moment. Crap.

Guess who the plucky humans are up on Capitol Hill?

Anyway, as usual Digby has hit on my thoughts exactly regarding this stupid compromise: "My only question going forward is this: if Janice Brown is not considered to be an 'extraordinary circumstance' then who in the world could Bush possibly nominate who would be worse? Ann Coulter? (She does, after all, call herself a constitutional scholar.) I'm not sure that there are any judges who are to the right of Brown or who express more hostility not only to the constitution but to the enlightenment thought that guides it. The only thing absolutely worse would be to put an Islamic fundamentalist on the supreme court."

We're already down to the extraordinary circumstances kids. That's why they were filibustering. The agreement, in practice, doesn't seem to change anything. This unsatisfying resolution brought to you by the US Senate and the Wachowski Bros.