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Pickering ping!

I posted this on another thread...

"FWIW, this is related, and from Robert Novak. I heard Rodger Hedgecock speaking about this on Rush this morning. Maybe...just maybe...they are in the process of attaining some testicular fortitude.

"Now, Frist is about to mount a campaign in three phases, lasting through what’s left of this year’s session.

Phase One: Start this week with a cloture vote on the nomination of U.S. District Judge Charles Pickering Sr. of Mississippi for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans. Pickering, bottled up in the Judiciary Committee during the 2001-02 Democratic interregnum, has just been sent to the Senate floor.

Phase Two: Next, order a cloture vote for the second time on Alabama Attorney General William Pryor for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. Claims by opponents that Pryor’s “deeply held beliefs” taint him for the court have produced accusations of anti-Catholicism.

Phase Three: Vote on three female nominees. Attempts to get cloture on Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen’s nomination for the 5th Circuit has failed three times. California Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl’s two-year-old nomination for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco is coming to the Senate floor for the first time. Just released by the Judiciary Committee and already threatened with a filibuster is California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, an African-American.

Failure to reach 60 votes for cloture on each of these three women is scheduled to be followed by consideration of the bill co-sponsored by Frist and conservative Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia. That measure would reduce the number of votes needed to end filibusters on nominations. That, too, will be filibustered in order to defeat it.

http://www.theunionleader.com/opinion_show.html?article=28185

There's more at the link. Registration is required, but it's not like they are asking your underwear size. ;o)

They seem to be preparing to go nuclear. We'll see if they actually follow through.

Hopefully, this will help Haley."

Failure to reach 60 votes for cloture on each of these three women is scheduled to be followed by consideration of the bill co-sponsored by Frist and conservative Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia. That measure would reduce the number of votes needed to end filibusters on nominations. That, too, will be filibustered in order to defeat it. http://www.theunionleader.com/opinion_show.html?article=28185 There's more at the link. Registration is required, but it's not like they are asking your underwear size. ;o) They seem to be preparing to go nuclear. We'll see if they actually follow through.

This is incoherent. If the Dems can stop the rule change by again filibustering, how does Frist expect to get anything accomplished?