Posted on 05/14/2005 8:14:30 AM PDT by Commander Salamander
Character assassination apparently has become the Democrats' stock-in-trade these days on Capitol Hill. Witness Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who departed from his prepared text to denounce one of President Bush's judicial nominees — a victim of Democratic filibustering — by saying the judge has "a problem" based on "his confidential report from the FBI." Reid wasn't offering up any details — which his office seems to think lets him off the hook. Because the problem is that those FBI background reports, as Reid himself conceded, are "confidential." And Senate rules prohibit a member from publicly disclosing confidential information — on pain of possible expulsion from the Senate. In fact, access to them is supposed to be limited to members of the Judiciary Committee and the two senators from the nominee's home state. The nominee, Henry Saad, is from Michigan; Harry Reid is from Nevada. And Reid is not a member of the Judiciary Committee. Does the word "unethical" come to mind? None of this should surprise, though. Saad, a Michigan state Court of Appeals judge who's up for a seat on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, isn't being filibustered because of any political complaints — even the Democrats can't find a blemish on his judicial record or any suggestion of what they consider extremism. No, Saad is on hold because Michigan's two Democratic senators — Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow — want some payback because two of Bill Clinton's nominees for the Sixth Circuit were held up by Republicans. Worse still, one of those nominees reportedly is the wife of Sen. Levin's cousin. The senators also are angry because Saad mistakenly sent to Stabenow's office an angry e-mail complaining of his treatment by the Senate.
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Reid is gutter slime. And where is the LEADERSHIP from the GOP on this issue? They should be screaming loudly for Reid's head -- ethics committe anyone? Why do we ONLY HEAR FROM THE SCUMMY DEMS when it comes to ethics??? Hello GOP??
Absolutely criminal. Reid is more than stupid, he's stupid and dangerous.
The Dems are self-destructing.
Some are complaining about it. The rest, as they often do, have brought an etiquette book to a knife-fight.
Hitlery has all those f.b.i. files and you know the repub senators are all unichs.
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DON'T EXPEL REID, PLEASE!
This is not sarcasm.
Reid, Dean, Boxer and Pelosi are a God send to the GOP. They are the back-benchers, bomb throwers, who heretofore would never have found themselves anywhere near leadership in the once formidable Dem. party.
What's best, if left to their own devices, they can't help themselves- they will continue to spew inanities and make mistakes- e.g. Bush a loser, Dean for Sanders, Boxer demonizing Condi, Reid leaking FBI data, etc.-
Just pray they keep talking- they're destroying themselves. Wait and see, at least one will ultimately commit a "whopper", that even the MSM will not be able to conceal or defend.
unichs
Are those, people whose beebers have been removed?
Reid should resign. If a Republican did this, calls for resignation would be all over the papers and the Sunday TV chatter.
Reid just cant stop running off at the mouth, Last week he called the President a loser. You want to see a loser?? Google up Reid in the images section of Google.
Reid reminds me of a small town funeral director.
'uni'chs - well, at least one beeber maybe?
bump
Sure, along with "typical", "SOP", and "business as usual."
Just more "Look at me, look at me" from an irrelevant democRAT.
This report ought to be made public so that we can see what he's talking about.
You got it there pal and that describes the vast majority of repub senators especially its leadership
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