Posted on 05/19/2005 8:17:55 AM PDT by Peach
Bond is up read more quotes on the florr right now.......
Thanks for that information.
And the difference is? In both cases one party prevented an up or down vote on the other party's nominees.
Excellent! Switching back to C-Span.
It may be substantively different. It may be that, since the Republicans controlled the Senate, there wouldn't have been enough votes on the floor, anyway. If my memory serves me, Clinton nominated some real nut jobs who happened to be minorities, then were saying that everyone opposing them was a racist. It may be that the Republicans on the committee were preventing those on the floor from having to cast their vote against.
It also may have been that a lot of Republicans were still respecting the time-honored tradition that the President was entitled to name judges whose political leanings were the same as his own, and that political or judicial philosophy was not a legitimate basis for voting down a nominee. Maybe the Republican leadership was afraid they would get the votes. I don't know.
Kit Bond is doing GREAT!
Perhaps. But in killing nominees by refusing to schedule committee hearings or voting out of committee then wasn't the GOP doing what they are complaining about now? Denying a nominee an up or down vote in the Senate?
If my memory serves me, Clinton nominated some real nut jobs who happened to be minorities...
And the Democrats claim that they are preventing extremists from the Bench. One party's sober jurist is another party's nut job.
...then were saying that everyone opposing them was a racist.
And the GOP is saying that the Democrats are opposing Republican nominees because they are Hispanic or because they are Catholic. Sad that we're taking pages out of the Democrat playbook, isn't it?
If I knew the freepers to thank for the research, I would do so.
The few I've tried to thank have said THEY got it from others too.
Frist needs to read every quote on the floor of the Senate and expose these hypocrites for everyone to see.
Thanks for the explanation!
Great post, thanks. Concerning the filibuster, what scares me the most is the gut feeling that the Repubs don't have 50 votes to support the Constitutional option even though a majority of the country (see Rasmussen) supports it. McCain, Hagel, Collins, Snowe, Chafee, and Graham will probably vote against it. This is why I fear that a compromise is imminent.
Graham is my Senator and a huge disappointment. I never expected to see his name included with Chafee, McCain, et al.
I agree, he reminds me a lot of a young John McCain. Maybe Mark Sanford should challenge Graham for the party's nomination in 2008, what do you think?
I like Sanford right where he is as Governor. And I'm afraid the RNC won't put anyone in a position to run against Graham and we're stuck with him for the foreseeable future.
It's a shame that a state as conservative as S.C. is going to suffer from this RHINO for years to come.
The common thread is that except for two of those quotes, all were made with a Democrat as president, and all were made with the Dems having control. And now...???????
Maybe Graham's bucking to be McCain's running mate. I wouldn't vote for either one of them, on any ticket.
mark
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