Score one for the Republicans

So it seems that the filibuster has been saved...for now. This one looks like a victory for the Republicans, though. They essentially get three guaranteed nominations into the judiciary out of five and pocket the nuclear option as political capital down the road, where before they would have gotten all five in exchange for looking like the bad guy and ending the filibuster for nominations to the judiciary, which would have had cost both sides down the road. All the Democrats get is the status quo and now have to walk a fine line between politics and honest opposition.

Also, in dropping the filibuster against Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown, both judges supposedly so against Democratic values that they had to use the filibuster, it implies that the Democrats were doing nothing more than simply playing partisan politics with the two of them.