There's a different take on the filibuster deal filtering through the blogosphere today. What it might end up meaning is that the Democrats will not be able to filibuster Bush's Supreme Court appointments. Yesterday they approved Owens and Brown for appelate courts or district courts or something, I forget which exactly. So let's say two Supreme Court justices retire or die before Bush's term is up. Then he can nominate Owens and Brown, and the Dems won't be able to filibuster. They already voted on these two, and are only supposed to filibuster under extreme circumstances, according to the wording of the deal. Well they already did not filibuster those two ladies post-compromise, so they won't be able to do it later. Little could happen between now and then to suddenly make it extreme circumstances when it wasn't yesterday.

Of course Dems seem to have short memories and will surely find an excuse, but they'll lose a lot of political capital if they do so.