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LIVE SENATE THREAD: "Nuclear Wednesday" for judicial nominations: C-span 2 - 9:30 am EST
C-span 2 ^ | May 18, 2005

Posted on 05/18/2005 5:48:45 AM PDT by ken5050

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To: Pukin Dog

I don't think Specter is on our side........He doesn't want the change.

Isn't his vote still up in the air?


521 posted on 05/18/2005 7:30:37 AM PDT by OXENinFLA ("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
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To: Howlin

I know I have read "cooling saucer of the Senate" at the American Memory site at the Library of Congress but I don't remember what it was in response to. I'm almost positive that it is "out of context", i.e., simply not applicable to the present situation.


522 posted on 05/18/2005 7:30:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: LisaFab

The media only covered Reid.....the SOB's.


523 posted on 05/18/2005 7:31:35 AM PDT by Dog
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To: maggiefluffs

Oh, dang, here goes Reid trying to run the Senate again, and Frist LET HIM---

THIS is not good---Frist should have just told Reid that he will just have to manage his people around time restraints, instead of making Specter shorten HIS time!!!

I just knew the damn dems would get away with this penny-ante crap to make the Reps look wrong...

Uh, oh---Specter is saying that BOTH sides are saying wrong things,,, scratch what I said above, Frist needs to get Specter off the floor NOW!


524 posted on 05/18/2005 7:31:46 AM PDT by Txsleuth ( Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: ken5050

Any mention of Scottish Law yet by Snarlin' Arlen?


525 posted on 05/18/2005 7:31:48 AM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: ken5050

Yes, let's hear from Mrs. Cheney. She isn't afraid of any of these liberal twits and will call it just exactly like it is, and take names in the process.


526 posted on 05/18/2005 7:31:57 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Brought to you by The American Democrat Party, also known as Al Qaeda, Western Division.)
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To: Miss Marple
Reid completely distorting the effect of the filibuster on the Civil Rights Legislation ...

Reid Lies, Judges Die

527 posted on 05/18/2005 7:32:05 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: OXENinFLA

Nah, Spectre wants to be seen above it all so he'll claim both are at fault in order to look "fair". My bet is that he votes with us.


528 posted on 05/18/2005 7:32:11 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Howlin
"Sen. Schumer said, "these are extreme people." "

Translation: "They are not Nazis! We want Nazis, socialists, anything but Americans, dammit!!!"


529 posted on 05/18/2005 7:32:39 AM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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To: Miss Marple

I think that last needed a little fine tuning... oh well...


530 posted on 05/18/2005 7:32:43 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Sacajaweau

Dingy Harry... out of context? NAH!


531 posted on 05/18/2005 7:33:10 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (Theodore: the GOOD Roosevelt)
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To: Soul Seeker

I think Specter's on point. Pointing out delays in committee under Democratic rule in 1987...


532 posted on 05/18/2005 7:33:15 AM PDT by Ravi
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To: OXENinFLA

He maust have had Bubba on his mind or he forgot his watch someplace.


533 posted on 05/18/2005 7:33:15 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: OXENinFLA
Specter is an embarrassment to the Republican Party. If you didn't see the (R) on the screen you couldn't tell he wasn't a Dem. But Frist surely has a stranglehold on his vote if not his rhetoric as a result of the deal that gave him the Judiciary Chair..
534 posted on 05/18/2005 7:33:20 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Sacajaweau

It referred to the bill passing process. Seeing that the Senate was appointed by state legislatures instead of popular vote, it was to mean that they would be less responsible to political pressure than the House.


535 posted on 05/18/2005 7:33:24 AM PDT by LisaFab
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To: LisaFab
"Leahy just interrupted Reid with a "whup, whup whup"

I'm glad someone else caught that. Leahy having to babysit Reid already, not a good sign for the democrats. Reid opens mouth & inserts foot everytime he veers off his notes.

536 posted on 05/18/2005 7:33:30 AM PDT by YaYa123 (I'm @ Home.com)
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To: AFPhys

It sounds like Spectre is trying to build a case as to how we reached this point by the actions of both sides over decades, and that now it must be corrected.


537 posted on 05/18/2005 7:34:04 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: AFPhys

OK, Specter, we know you are better than everyone, because you are so damn impartial.


538 posted on 05/18/2005 7:34:25 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Sacajaweau; Howlin
To: Howlin........... I know I have read "cooling saucer of the Senate" at the American Memory site at the Library of Congress but I don't remember what it was in response to. I'm almost positive that it is "out of context", i.e., simply not applicable to the present situation.

See my Post 511 for the historical background on the "coooling effect" analogy made by Washington.

539 posted on 05/18/2005 7:35:11 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Ravi

Yep. People need to settle down.

Spectre seems to be making the case the Filibuster is a direct consequence of politics trumping Senate duty over years.


540 posted on 05/18/2005 7:35:32 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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