Tyranny of the minority

World Magazine ^ | 06/01/03 | By Lynn Vincent

[jackbill]

Mr. Frist said he prefers instead to seek cloture reform, which he sees as "a nonpartisan solution."

Perhaps you're missing the boat here. The point of my #15 was that the Democrats sought "cloture reform" in 1975 and did it with a "nuclear" solution. The Republicans could do exactly the same, i.e. "seek cloture reform" via a "nuclear" solution in exactly the same manner.

And, given enough aggravation by the DemocRATs, Mr. Frist just may be driven to this "partisan" solution. And that is especially true if there is a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee.

[templar]

Those powers not enumerated to the federal government in the constitution were explicitly remanded to the states.

Or to the people. Everyone seems to forget about "the people" part of th 9th and 10th. In fact, the 9th is almost never spoken of anymore. This is also important since both "the States" and "the people" are used in a manner that indicate they are obviously different entities in the 10th ammendment. Try reading the 10th with people in place of States or States in place of people and it becomes gibbberish. Another powerful argument against "the people" meaning "the States" in the 2nd ammendment that seldom seems to be raised against the gun grabber libs.

[LiteKeeper]

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[Sonny M]

Zell switching to the Republican party would be a good start, expressing his above complaint as the reason.

Its not going to happen, he intends to retire and not run again, and as soon as election night happens, he plans to resign.

He's unfortunatley, very naive to boot, he's from the old democratic party, and wants the party to come to the center, and get rid of the socialists that are there now, however, he can't see that the party he loved, is long gone now.

[Sonny M]

What would the Dems do if the Republicans were doing this?

They would have used the Nuke option a long time ago.

[lowbridge]

[MortMan]

Or to the people.

Thanks for the reminder. It is easy to forget - too easy.

[laredo44]

Further, the Senate has confirmed just 53 percent of appeals-court nominees during Mr. Bush's first two years in office

Here's what makes this so frustrating. Yesterday, Tony Snow interviewed Hatch and Schumer on Fox. There, Schumer claimed the Senate has confirmed 126 of Bush 128 nominees. Here we're told only 53%. What's the truth? Which apples are being compared to what oranges?

I suspect Schumer referring to those nominees voted on by the full senate while the article's 53% denominator also includes those killed in committee. But why didn't either Snow or Hatch challenge Schumer on this? Viewers were left with Schumer's unchallenged contention that Democrats were being bend-over-backwards reasonable and Republicans were a bunch of crybabies.

[monocle]

Do you think that this situation would exist in the absence of the Seventeenth Amendment so that senators' appointments would be subjected to the same type of treatment in the respective state legislative bodies?