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Republicans to Go on Offensive Over Judges
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| 4/15/05
| JESSE J. HOLLAND
Posted on 04/15/2005 1:32:54 PM PDT by Libloather
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It's about time to bus a move...
To: Libloather
How many Democrats are there in Red States? They may not be in favor of a filibuster.
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posted on
04/15/2005 1:35:29 PM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Question Liberalism)
To: Libloather
NOT. ONE. DIME. I will not contribute one thin dime to any Republican cause unless and until Bush's judicial nominees receive a straight up-or-down vote in the Senate.
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posted on
04/15/2005 1:35:39 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
To: Libloather
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posted on
04/15/2005 1:35:56 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(The Left cannot win a national election ever again.)
To: Libloather
Tapping foot.....fingers......waiting................
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posted on
04/15/2005 1:41:06 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Our military......the world's HEROES!)
To: Libloather
I'll believe it when I see it...Haven't we heard this before...?
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posted on
04/15/2005 1:41:37 PM PDT
by
matymac
(Living in the Heart of the Beast...the People's Republic of Cambridge...)
To: Libloather
Some of the President's nominees have been waiting over two years, and I won't even mention Miguel Estrada who withdrew after over two years of waiting for a vote. Frist and Company need to stop talking about taking action, and take some guldarn action!
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posted on
04/15/2005 1:41:51 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: So Cal Rocket
I just returned that same message in the latest request for money from the gutless majority.
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posted on
04/15/2005 1:42:46 PM PDT
by
DrewsDad
To: Libloather
"I'll do it.... I swear I'm gonna do it..... are you listening to me?.... I'm serious this time..... I'll do it.... Realllly serious!!..... You'll see.... don't tempt me, 'cause I'll do it.... I'm not playing around any more..... you'll see...... you'll all see....... we're not kidding................ I'll do it................"
Gutless wonders.
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posted on
04/15/2005 1:45:24 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: Cowboy Bob
"They're ahead of the power curve," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said of the orchestrated effort by Democrats and groups such as MoveOn.org and People for the American Way. "I think you'll see a greater, stepped-up message on part of the Republicans, to go on offense on this issues."Let me get this straight. We just had a national election a little over 5 months ago. In addition to re-electing a Republican president, Republicans increased their majority in both the Senate and the House and in governorships.
NOW TELL ME WHY REPUBLICANS NEED TO GET SOME "MESSAGE" OUT?
You mean to tell me that after the recent national elections Republicans are ALREADY getting weak in the knees? What message did the last election NOT send to these bone heads?
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posted on
04/15/2005 2:00:54 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: Obadiah
I'm still so steamed over my AZ senator (whome I DID NOT VOTE FOR last NOV!) put out his BS about not voting to stop the filibuster...I knew we should have made more of an effort to get rid of MCLAME! Limp willied RINO!
To: Libloather
DO IT ALREADY!
Senator Frist, If you don't have the votes, do it anyway! I want these red state Dems and turncoat Reps on record. Let them face the scorn of their constituents. Identify our enemies. Allow us to know who is going to do this and spend the next year and half making their lives and re-elections miserable.
To: Libloather
Friday, April 15, 2005
Tricky Dick up to it again...
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin took the floor this afternoon to rant and rave about GOP abuse of power. Never in the Senate's history, claimed Durbin, has a majority of the Senate voted to change the rules.
As usual, Durbin scores a ten on style and a zero on substance.
Here are the facts:
A majority of Senators has also always possessed the constitutional power to establish new Senate precedents including precedents that reverse prior precedents, and precedents that contravene the text of the standing rules of the Senate.
In fact, Senator Robert Byrd led the charge to establish new Senate precedents in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1987 including a number of precedents that were designed specifically to stop filibusters and other delay tactics that were previously authorized under Senate rules or prior precedents:
* In 1977, Senator Byrd led the establishment of a new precedent in order to break a post-cloture filibuster on a natural gas deregulation bill, stating: I make the point of order that when the Senate is operating under cloture, the Chair is required to take the initiative under Rule XXII to rule out of order all amendments which are dilatory or which on their face are out of order. That precedent contravened prior precedent, which would have required the Chair to await a point of order from the floor.
* In 1979, Senator Byrd led the establishment of a new precedent that allowed the Chair to rule on questions of germaneness raised during the consideration of appropriations bills notwithstanding Senate Rule XVI, which states that all questions of germaneness on appropriations bills must be decided by the full Senate.
* In 1980, Senator Byrd led the establishment of a new precedent to require an immediate vote, without debate, on any motion to go into executive session to consider a particular nomination. His new precedent was specifically designed, in his words, to deal with a filibuster on the motion to proceed to a nomination. Previously, a motion to proceed to a particular nomination was debatable. The new precedent was sustained by a vote of 54-38.
* In 1987, Senator Byrd caused establishment of a new precedent declaring that certain tactics were to be construed as dilatory during roll call votes and therefore always out of order no matter what even though the text of the Senate rules had clearly authorized such tactics. Previously, dilatory tactics were out of order only after cloture had been invoked.
Source: http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com, posted by chappy22
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posted on
04/15/2005 2:16:29 PM PDT
by
OESY
To: OESY
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posted on
04/15/2005 2:28:46 PM PDT
by
jonno
(We are NOT a democracy - though we are democratic. We ARE a constitutional republic.)
To: Libloather
Ill believe it when I see it
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posted on
04/15/2005 2:32:34 PM PDT
by
Tiger Smack
(http://www.tigersmack.com <------- for LSU & SEC sports/news/stuff)
To: Libloather
Whatever happened to Miguel Estrada?
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posted on
04/15/2005 2:36:39 PM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(Rest in Peace, Theresa Marie SCHINDLER - IMPEACH JUDGE GREER!!!!!!!)
To: Libloather
I had a dream last night about the gift that I hope we give to the Senate libs, as a gesture of "comity":
To: Cowboy Bob
How many Democrats are there in Red States? The impact of 2004 Values Voters---the Catholic, Black, and denominational religious vote----is so striking, even Hillary is trying to look like Mother Teresa. Here's why:
Conservative pro-life Christian voters made monumental contributions to GWB's 2004 vote totals. Pres Bush won with 63 Million Votes (13 million more than 2000).
The map, though impressive, conveys the misleading impression that blue state Catholics voted for Kerry (a CINO).
According to EWTN "The World Over Live" analysts, with the exception of VA, where Catholics spit 70/30 in favor of Bush, the majority of Catholic voters split 55/45 for Bush.....a whopping number of votes since Catholics number about 52 million Americans.
According to CNN exit polls, Bush voters included 38% of union members, 40% of those with union members in their households, 42% of those earning $15,000-$30,000, 44% of those who earn under $50,000 and 44% of Latinos, 45% of youth (aged 18-29), 13% of liberalseven 11% of Democrats voted for Bush.
2004 Election polls indicated 34% called themselves conservative, 21% liberal.
The National Association of Evangelicals, represents 39 million churchgoers. There are an estimated one billion Catholics around the world, and according to the Church of England, there are 70 million Anglicans. America's census bureau said 159 million US citizens describe themselves as Christians.
If you look closely, the map appears to place the insignificant "Other Voters" in the ocean.....that's accurate, because "Other Voters--RINO Republicans" were on cruise ships while the rest of Americans were home working.
(MAP UPDATE Bush won Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico later.)
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posted on
04/15/2005 2:53:30 PM PDT
by
Liz
(One of it's most compelling tenets is Catholicism's acknowledgement of individual free will.)
To: Libloather; geedee; Jay777; Blurblogger; Just mythoughts; jer33 3; Donna Lee Nardo; NYer; ...
We need Repubs to maintain a hardline stance, even harder than they're maintaining on this issue.......and, above all, they must never surrender to political correctness.
Political correctness is the club used by the ACLU Secular Taliban and their acolytes to beat back believers----to oust religionists of every faith from claiming their rightful place in the public square.
PC needs to be quashed every place it raises it ugly head.
We need to deliver the message far and wide-----political correctness is dead, killed by a devastated culture corrupted by secularism.
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posted on
04/15/2005 3:02:52 PM PDT
by
Liz
(One of it's most compelling tenets is Catholicism's acknowledgement of individual free will.)
To: Libloather
Being hearing this for weeks now...when are they suppose to go NUCLEAR?? This strategy should have been used long time ago, especially now against the fithy RATS and the rags for printing LIES about DeLay...
Me thinks the pubs are 4 years too late!
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