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U.S. Senate doesn't need to go nuclear
Knoxville News Sentinel ^
| 4/17/5
| Editor
Posted on 04/16/2005 10:36:56 PM PDT by SmithL
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They should, at the very least, make the obstructionists actually conduct a non-stop, no-sleep, keep talking filibuster instead of surrendering to the threat of a filibuster.
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posted on
04/16/2005 10:36:56 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Barf Alert, please.
-Dan
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posted on
04/16/2005 10:41:37 PM PDT
by
Flux Capacitor
(Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
To: SmithL
The Republicans would never hold up this many nominees, and if they did the rats would change the rules in a blink of the eye.
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posted on
04/16/2005 10:43:09 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
( .:: Johannes Paulus Magnus: "Well done, good and faithful servant!" ::.)
To: SmithL
This particular standoff should not go nuclear Constitutional. The only reason the left is blocking the judicial vote is to deny Religious freedom. To the democrats, only Satanists and sinners are worthy of the bench. The Bush nominees have moral values, and morality will not be tolerated in the U.S.S.A.
To: SmithL
This editorial is just wishful thinking on the part of the liberal scumbag(s) who wrote it. There are, of course, a few things that the editorial neglected to mention:
1. Never before have so many judicial nominations been filibustered so brazenly - - nothing in history comes close.
2. When, someday, there is a majority Democrat Senate and a Democrat President, the Republicans will repay in kind what the rats are doing to their nominations now.
3. The shameless Democrats, those same scumbags who invented the art of the smear now known colloquially as "Borking" and who have continued to refine that art for nearly two decades, WILL "go nuclear" when the Republicans filibuster their judicial nominations and then laugh in the faces of the Republicans as they do it.
The Republicans at this point have absolutely no choice but to "go nuclear".
To: SmithL
The Editors of the
Knoxville News Sentinel are obviously clueless as to what is going on here. The Democrats are violating the Constitution by forcing a 60-vote requirement on the Advise and Consent Clause, which for 216 years (since President Washington's first nominations) has required only a simple majority to confirm judicial appointments.
Those Editors may not care whether Senators (or judges) deliberately violate the Constitution. But we do. And most Americans do. And that's why Senator Frist should break the back of the Democrats' obstruction, with the aid of all Republicans who also believe in the Constitution.
Click below for a more honest take on this subject.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "A Triple Black Dog Double Dare to Infinity."
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posted on
04/16/2005 10:59:10 PM PDT
by
Congressman Billybob
(Proud to be a FORMER member of the Bar of the US Supreme Court since July, 2004.)
To: SmithL
The filibuster is one tool for the minority to protect itself from the tyranny of the majority. Congratulations to the pinhead that wrote this garbage. That is is stupidest thing I've ever read in an editorial. To heck with the American people. Filibusters are for Democrats to protect themselves from the Republicans. Wow. What a deal.
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posted on
04/16/2005 11:05:19 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Democrats are losers.)
To: SmithL
"Harry Reid of Nevada has threatened to thoroughly gum up the workings of the Senate"
Reid's already doing that .. so why is he threatening ..??
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posted on
04/16/2005 11:36:26 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
To: Flux Capacitor
Barf Alert indeed.
The Dems would have already gone nuclear were the positions reversed.
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posted on
04/16/2005 11:40:25 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(They kicked my dog, he turned to me and he said...let's get back to Tennessee Jed!)
To: wardaddy
Senator Byrd changed the Senate rules to go nuclear no fewer than 3 times; Senator Lyndon Johnson did it at least once.
The difference is that the Corrupt Old media defended KKK Kleagle Byrd and Johnson, while attacking Republicans for even thinking about it.
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posted on
04/16/2005 11:42:47 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
I believe Patrick Leahy sponsored a go-nuke proposal 30 years ago that foundered.
I'm not sure we have a choice now, one can only rattle the saber so much or folks lose respect.
I think we are past that point and from the look on Frist's face I think he knows it too.
Frist is in a pickle. He is W's hand-picked boy and has aspirations and as a heart-lung transplant surgeon amongst other achievements, he's obviously capable brainwise but does he have the will?
His future will ride on this. God forbid he calls a vote and fails. I hate to think of that. And if he succeeds then he has to manage the fallout, the media and the blowback and run for POTUS in two years. No wonder he looks nervous.
Whatever he does will be with Bush's blessing which leads me to think they are going to go for it. Bush has to know that aside from the WOT his greatest legacy and base shoring up will come from judicial nominees.
Regards.
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posted on
04/16/2005 11:51:23 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(They kicked my dog, he turned to me and he said...let's get back to Tennessee Jed!)
To: SmithL
They should ignore any "filibuster" and simply bring the nominees to a vote.
A filibuster cannot be had on judicial votes according to current Senate rules.
To: SmithL
When Frist has the votes to end judicial filibusters, the libs will cave before letting it happen.It is close to happening now
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posted on
04/17/2005 12:25:34 AM PDT
by
Figment
(Ich bin ein Jesuslander)
To: SmithL
Not to worry, some pubs would never betray their liberal friends.
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posted on
04/17/2005 1:37:58 AM PDT
by
gulfcoast6
(Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is yet to come, today is here now, enjoy it.)
To: SmithL
Judicial filibusters, while not unprecedented, were rare.. None, zero, nada, zilch, never happened....
Very rare indeed.
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posted on
04/17/2005 2:14:14 AM PDT
by
Jeff Gordon
(Recall Barbara Boxer)
To: SmithL
the Democrats' filibuster of a handful of President Bush's judicial nominees. It would be great if Frist forced the Dimms to really filibuster instead of ending the Senate session and allowing the "filibuster" to resume in the morning.
The Dems want to filibuster...make them do it!
To: SmithL
It's not a "handful", that's a point the Republicans need to get across loud and clear. It's an unprecedented third of all of Bush's judicial nominees to the federal bench, which are the only judicial appointments that really matter.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:31:35 AM PDT
by
Catphish
To: SmithL
U.S. Senate doesn't need to go nuclear
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
And Olde Media doesn't neet to go Left either.
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posted on
04/17/2005 8:14:58 AM PDT
by
Milhous
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To: SmithL
Just announce that if they are approved by the judicial committee, they're in.
The Constitution only provides that the Senate will "advise and consent." It doesn't say that they will hold a vote of the full Senate.
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posted on
04/17/2005 8:21:26 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
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