PSM-NBC relaying a message from DNC mother ship 1 to Republicans and Earthlings - Surrender your judges or we will destroy your planet .... or stomp off in a hissy fit.
Every Senator who walks out, etc, should be horse-whipping, tarred and feathered, and run out of DC forever!
GET BUSY AND EARN YOUR PAYCHECKS YA BASTIDS!
Repubs may have to "go nuclear."
Let's hope they're up to it.
Grid Lock is Good!
Considering the treasonous bunch of thieves that make up the Senate, shut down is the correct state for them.
Wish it was permanent.
Theodore B. Olson for Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
The text does not match the headline.
Bringing business to a grinding halt may simply mean all other biz is on hold until this is finished.
Which is prolly how it's going to happen.
I don't believe Sen. Frist is a wartime Consign-- um Senate Leader.
So what Senator do you really think is most likely to pull the nuclear lanyard, Congressman Billybob?
Well then, shut it down. 'smostly worthless anyway.
Doe the President have the authority/power to order the arrest of Senators that don't show? If so, he could have them arrested and brought to the chamber.
A little perspective, folks, please! First, this is an item from PMSNBC. Secondly, I think the Senate 'Pubbies are starting to feel their Cheerios and aren't in much of a mood to continue to allow letting the MINORITY Dem party call the shots.
The voters handed them a clear majority in November and gave Bush a mandate. If they know anything, they know that this session is the time to put up or shut up. If they don't come through with the President's agenda, they know that they will never see a majority again.
I think we will see Senate 'Pubbies who are energized and ready to take control - FULL control of the Senate and prove that the voters were right to give them that majority.
Wouldn't be such a bad thing. Wouldn't be so bad if the federal courts shut down either.
The Republicans in the Congress are in hardly a more disagreeable position...
If they go Nuclear and somehow lose, they face gridlock and will lose the Senate in 2006
If they dont go Nuclear and face gridlock, they will lose the Senate in 2006...
If the Democrats block, this could get interesting very quickly. There are other things to do besides the SC justices. And while they are debating it or philibustering it, people in the real world will continue without due process because it isnt just the SCOTUS that is going to have nominees....but the different circuit and appellate justices as well....
If the left-wingers are so unable to accept no longer being the majority party that they're willing to initiate a full-blown constitutional crisis, then I predict they'll continue to be beaten like a drum in election after election after election.
Dear GOP SENATORS,
PLEASE GO TO 7/11 AND BUY A TRAINLOAD OF GONADS AND SOCK IT TO THE DIMRATS.
Or forever hang your heads in shame.
Shut the whole mess down.