Posted on 05/25/2005 9:55:14 AM PDT by no dems
Punish the Senate Filibuster Compromisers!
I'm sure you've heard about the so-called "deal" put together by "moderate" Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate, which will stop Sen. Frist from putting a halt to the Democrats' unconstitutional judicial filibusters but will allow a few of President Bush's nominees to be voted on and confirmed. Seven Republican turncoats shredded the Constitution by cutting a deal allowing a "super-MINORITY" of just 14 Senators to block or confirm any nominee. Real conservatives - hard-working, patriotic, Americans who love our Constitution and believe it should be upheld - are VERY ANGRY about this "deal".
In Rhode Island, we're targeting Sen. Lincoln Chafee for defeat in the Republican primary. Chafee has a likely conservative opponent: Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey. In Maine: Sen. Olympia Snowe for defeat in the GOP primary. We've got a great candidate to support against her: State Representative Brian Duprey, a conservative Navy veteran and homeschooling father of five. Ohio: Sen. Mike DeWine for defeat. There are no declared candidates running against DeWine in the Republican primary -- so we're going into Ohio and working with conservative organizations to RECRUIT one who can WIN. Nebraska: Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson is targeted for defeat. Nebraska is a solid "red state" -- President Bush won the state with 66% of the vote in 2004, and Nelson squeaked by with just 51% of the vote in his last election. In West Virginia, we're targeting Democrat leader Sen. Robert Byrd for defeat. West Virginia is another good "red state" -- President Bush won the state with 56% of the vote in 2004 (a 100,000 vote margin), and Byrd's standing in the polls is at its lowest in years. Are you ANGRY about what these people did? Then HELP US throw the bums out of office.
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If the Republicans had cajones, they would vote the three judicial nominees per the "compromise" and immediately put the other 7 up with a note to the Republican traitors, "You cause trouble, we are gonna nail you to the wall!"
The benefit of this strategy is that the three will have already been approved and they were the ones the Dems were most complaining about. It would be hard to shout down the remaining 7.
Well, I remain mystified that with 55 GOP Senators, all of whom won an election on his watch, the President hasn't been allowed to put his stamp on the court system.
I was not happy with the comprimise, but isn't this getting a little silly? Haven't Graham and some of these other guys been right more times than they have been wrong? Did we not get the bankruptcy and tort reform bills passed? Did we not get 3 of the most conservative judges through? Who would replace McCain, a Democrat? Would that help Bush appoint conservative judges?
Chill out, folks. You never win 100% of the time, and the Gipper Himself made plenty of comprimises.
The most crucial passage in the agreement may prove to be this one: "Each signatory must use his or her own discretion and judgment in determining whether such ['extraordinary'] circumstances exist." As a practical matter, this applies only to the Democratic signatories, since no Republican has ever voted to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee.The seven signatories, that is, have now declared that they will decide how to vote on judicial filibusters rather than take directions from the party. Two of them, Robert Byrd and Daniel Inoyue, probably did so largely to preserve "Senate tradition"; but the other five--Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor and Ken Salazar--are all generally moderate, and all from red states except Lieberman. Their inclinations and political interests diverge from those of Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy and other far-left blue-staters.
If left-wing Democrats want to filibuster another nominee, they will have to persuade Minority Leader Harry Reid to risk another nuclear confrontation and persuade at least one of the moderate compromising five, plus Byrd, Inoyue and every single uncompromising Dem, that it's worth it. It could happen, but we're not betting on it.
I already am.
I have told the RNC that they'll not get a cent of my money, and have told my GOP representation (two Senators and my district Rep) that the GOP won't get a single vote from my family, until this filibuster travesty is corrected.
And I mean every word of it.
Great...maybe you should vote for a Democrat or Ralph Nader. That will help the cause!
Let me help out here. 55 is less than 60.
Watch out for McCain. He is 99% for McCain and 1% for us.
If you plant 20 acres of corn and 1 acre of stink weed, the 20 acres of corn does not offset the stink weed and the odor is more offensive than the sweet smell coming from the corn. You reap what you sow.
If there were 70 Republicans in the Senate, the Democrats would find a way to scream "foul" and get enough Republicans to knuckle under to get their way.
I'm absolutely convinced of it.
Yep, mcCain was 99% for himself and 1% for America when he was serving time in a Vietnamese concentration camp. What a coward.
Ben Nelson needs to be taken down but good! I no longer have a stake in Nebraska, but I want to see that old POS turned out to pasture for good!
No, he's 100 percent for McCain: the 1 percent was just for public relations!
Or if the bathwater is dirty, throw the baby out, too.
Of all the good men who died in the Nam war a piece of sh*t like mcpain had to live...
Someone posted on another link that the younger DeWine has deserted a pregnant wife, but he is still the OH favorite!
The Constitution states that the Senate gets to make its own rules. And save the "advise and consent part," if any of the politicians seriously thought that meant everyone gets an up or down vote, they would have sued already.
This issue SHOULD NOT SPLIT THE PARTY, IF IT DOES, THE DEMS WIN.
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