Posted on 08/01/2006 12:53:14 PM PDT by teddyballgame
August 7, 2006 issue - Fran DeWine just wanted to talk about apple pie. Campaigning last month for her husband, Ohio Republican Sen. Mike DeWine, she handed constituents a family cookbook, complete with Mike's favorite pie recipe and her own "Fran's Best Bread." But one voter was interested in a less appetizing topic: why had her husband defied his party leadership on judicial nominees and joined the Senate's so-called Gang of 14? Taken aback, Fran rambled on like a schoolteacher, explaining the nature of filibusters and the history of Republican appointees on Capitol Hill. Later, when pressed by a reporter, she was more succinct: her husband had defected, she confided, in order to save the Senate.
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This article is a flat out lie. Newsweak is Lie, after lie, after lie, after lie. This fake filibuster had never been done before and frankly was unconstitutional. Its wonder that any Republicans ever get elected. Evan Thomas was right - the MSM is worth 15 points in the polls.
Good, these weaklings deserve what they get.
Republican and Conservatives got you where you are today idiots, and you fools seem ready to surrender at every oppurtunity. Grow a spine.....but on your own time.
Based on Teddy Kennedy's out-of-the-blue op-ed piece on Roberts and Alito in the WashPost last Sunday, there is insider talk of another Supreme Court vacancy soon.
Teddy is being pre-emptive. Expect the Gang of 14 to rise again to flex their muscles. Let's see if they have the same "courage" as they get close to an election. "Save the Senate" or save their butts?
Also from the article: President George W. Bush's judicial nominees—preventing the dread "nuclear option" (where a majority would end a Democratic filibuster and destroy the rules of the Senate)—they were the first to proclaim they'd brought democracy back from the brink.
We're not a Democracy, we're a Republic. Dewine and family are now in the process of figuring that out.
All in all, that is about the most pompous, condescending article I've read in a while.
"All in all, that is about the most pompous, condescending article I've read in a while."
Welcome to Newsweek/MSNBC
"Good, these weaklings deserve what they get.
Republican and Conservatives got you where you are today idiots, and you fools seem ready to surrender at every oppurtunity. Grow a spine.....but on your own time."
Yup, when conservatives run as conservatives they win. Limp-wristed, linguini-spined RINOS need not apply.
I am still waiting for a filibuster. The spineless GOP collapses like jelly when the D's even say the word.
Amen
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