Posted on 05/23/2005 9:40:18 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
He should have pushed for a vote and exercised the constitutional option long ago, before the Squishy Middle Caucus formed their cabal and signed their agreement, for starters.
We should have had a showdown.
Iago: "Thou art--a SENATOR!"
Othello
Some things just have not changed.
The Bard has spoken. Good post.
Today's events ensures the opposite in 2006.
This is the equivelent of if Bush had postponed attacking Iraq in March of 2003 to give the UN another six months work out a solution in good faith with Saddam. Of course nothing would be "off the table". But in reality the opportunity would be past. It took months and months to get to the wobbly Pubs to actually schedule a vote on this. It won't happen again. By the end of the year the RATS will fillibuster another judge and the cowardly RINOs will have their excuse not to support breaking the fillibuster.
The Nuclear Option now no longer exists.
we agree on that.
Backdoors politics making secret deals without the voter hearing who made what deal. ALL IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY. For us, (the majority) who voted for President Bush and a Republican House and Senate on the grounds that his judicial nominees have an up or down vote have been betrayed. It's plain and simple.
They will never wake up because they know that 99 percent of the voters in this country will only ever vote for one of two parties, repubs and dems. So as long as they are on the republican ticket on election day they know that people who identify themselves as conservative will vote for them.
Garbage like this will only continue and get worse until people realize that they can actually vote for someone in a true conservative third party. Do you honestly think that the repubs will change when all they have to say to people is "vote for us because dems are worse"? That arguement actually worked for me until it just very recently became painfully obvious to me that they are basically no different than the dems when you get right down to it.
Which is why any national ambitions he had went in the tank last night. If he can't lead the Senate, he's not qualified to lead the country.
Correct.
Ouch!
Bush nominated more than three, if you didn't notice.
Frist can keep his powder dry for the Supreme Court battle.
You mean the powder he keeps in his compact?
Why can't Frist simply demand "real" filibusters? Apparently the filibuster rule now does not address the requirement of "real" filibusters. Real filibusters would soon bore the Democrats and the liberal Republicans into slipping out of the chamber.
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