Pickering Battle Places Congress on Verge of 'Institutional Crisis'

CNSNews.com ^ | March 07, 2002 | Jeff Johnson

[Elkiejg]

We need to keep up the pressure on this committee. What I find so criminal is that the special interest groups are the ones controling the Dems. on this committee. They are ones calling the shots and using these stupid Dem. senators. Keep those emails and calls going all week. Use this

[Hacksaw]

Can we quote him on that?

I doubt it.

[Wphile]

FOX NEWS said he would vote against Pickering but I don't recall if they reported whether he would support a floor vote or not. Remember, Biden is on record saying that every nominee deserves a floor vote, regardless of the committee's vote.

Looks like the GOP is stepping things up. Interesting to note that Lott does not appear to be among them.

[San Jacinto]

It is an absolute certainty that the committee will vote the judge down 10-9. That will probably be the end of the fight, but it is possible Bush will gain a political advantage from all this and the Dems look like political hacks (which they are).

I see one scenario where the judge may get a floor vote, and it is not necessarily a good one. If Daschle can cut a back room deal with 2 RINOs, he can say, "Ok, we will make a big concession in the name of bi-partisanship--unprecedented--we are so generous and fair."

Then the vote: Pickering gets 2 Dem votes (McClennan of Ga and Hollings of SC), but 2 RINOs defect (You name the prospects) and Pickering looses 51-49. Daschle says--"See, all this over nothing. Now it's the Republicans turn to be Bi-Partisan!"

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the pro-choice crowd might get their 2 RINOs

[RecallJeffords]

Biden and the liberals on Judiciary are more concerned with the fact that they may be facing a Republican majority after the November elections. Not a certainty, but a real possibility. If that happens, after the way Daschle and the Judiciary Committee has obstructed every piece of legislation and nominee possible, there is a chance the Republicans will use their majority to ram nominees and bills right down their whiny throats. Biden is a hypocrite--he told another nominee for a federal judgeship last week that unless he promised to vote in favor of abortion Biden would filibuster his nomination, and then Biden left the room before the nominee could answer.

The part that scares them is that teh liberals know that they do not have political support for every crackpot social engineering scheme they want enacted, but the federal bench has been quite reliable in enacting it for them and preventing the people from having any say. They lose the judiciary and the liberals would be required to persuade the people of their positions, a feat they have never accomplished.

[Hacksaw]

We need to keep up the pressure on this committee. What I find so criminal is that the special interest groups are the ones controling the Dems. on this committee. They are ones calling the shots and using these stupid Dem. senators. Keep those emails and calls going all week. Use this

The kingpin is not the plagiarist Biden. It is not the murderer of Massachussets. It is not the dot com failure (who has no business being on a judiciary committee)from Washington, elected with the help of the LP. It is not the ambulance chaser (another person who has no business approving judges) from SC. It is not the California pro-abort (who didn't learn the rule that no gun is unloaded from the pics I saw).

It is the Leakster. National Review did an in-depth expose on The Leakster - and interviewed staffers, politicians, etc. It was posted here a while back. From the article, the partisanship of The Leakster makes Dash-hole and his trainer Mitchell look like rank amateurs.

[Hacksaw]

Biden is a hypocrite--he told another nominee for a federal judgeship last week that unless he promised to vote in favor of abortion Biden would filibuster his nomination, and then Biden left the room before the nominee could answer.

I thought he was upset that Judge Smith had the gall to criticize Bidens's violence against women act - an act which virtually mimiced state laws already in place (and which was overturned by the US SC, backing up Smith). From what I read, Biden was a bit upset that a judge would dare think that federal supremacy over The States was not a given fact.

[Lancey Howard]

It was the scumbag Democrats who invented "Borking" and it's the scumbag Democrats who continue to work relentlessly to fine tune the art of the smear and the lie. My opinion is, screw 'em all. Let the Democrats bury everybody and let the vacancy crisis deepen. (You remember the "vacancy crisis", right? The liberal news media used to tell us about it all the time during the Scumbag Administration.) Let nobody get confirmed until there is a 60 vote majority of decent humans in the Senate. Recall that the Republicans actually came pretty close a few years ago and it is something which is entirely within reason to hope for.

Meantime, let the scumbag Democrats play their game, the game they invented. I will be extremely disappointed if the Republicans capitulate to the scumbags in any way, shape, manner, or form.

[Lancey Howard]

If I recall correctly, Biden is brain-damaged, isn't he?

[#3Fan]

Specter suggested that Pickering's nomination be moved to the full Senate for debate and a vote, even if the committee gives him an "unfavorable" recommendation. Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said such a move would be "unprecedented." "That's not accurate. There is, in fact, precedent for moving appellate and even district court nominees to the floor for a vote even when they have not received favorable support from this committee," Hatch explained. "Based on our research since 1950, this committee has moved at least six lower court nominees to the floor for consideration either without a recommendation or with a negative recommendation after the committee has voted them down."

Isn't there a day that goes by without the idiot Daschle sticking his foot in his mouth?

[Utah Girl]

Biden had brain surgery done several years ago, my mom swears up and down he used to be a decent guy before the surgery (I think it was for a brain tumor.)

[Hacksaw]

Isn't there a day that goes by without the idiot Daschle sticking his foot in his mouth?

No, and I love it. He is getting the "Newt" treatment (granted though he would never get treated as badly as Newt did).

[rohry]

It is not the ambulance chaser (another person who has no business approving judges) from SC.

SC has some jerks in Congress but the ambulance chaser is from NC...

[#3Fan]

No, and I love it. He is getting the "Newt" treatment (granted though he would never get treated as badly as Newt did).

I was just thinking of that two days ago. Remember when Newt complained of not being wholly informed by the Clinton Administration and the media lambasted him as a crybaby? Gee, I wonder why Daschle isn't getting the same treatment for doing the same thing (worse, actually, because Daschle lied)?

[ThomasPaine2000]

No, No, Biden had hair surgery, Specter had had brain surgery..

[Utah Girl]

OK. I wasn't politically active when all that happened, although Biden's hair is awfully strange looking, especially when looking from above his head.

[Alissa]

There is no doubt in my mind that the Dems are protecting Roe vs. Wade. They are scared sh!tless or this nonsense would cease. The liberals dominate both Judiciary committees to make sure this will never happen!!!!!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

The problem with these commitees having so much power is that sometimes the individual members will not answer to anyone that isn't considered a constituent. So, if I try to contact these guys, they may not even answer me because I'm not in one of their districts. That's why they need to refer his nomination to the full senate, because they are infringing upon the rights of the American people to be represented fairly by the people they elected.

[pointsal]

the senators, for the most part, are crooked creeps..... dump them all

[linn37]

Hatch worked the Leakster over pretty good today in full view of the cameras and would not cover his mic.