Posted on 02/14/2005 2:20:21 PM PST by FreedomPoster
Where is Pickering?
I don't think Levin is on the WH Christmas Card list..he's been a pain on this for years..
...God bless the healing hands of a doctor, but I don't want the Senate run by a man too worried about offending future voters for his presidential candidacy to use a heavy hand when it's needed. Lord knows the Democrats never shirked from it in fourty years...
Amen to that. By using the filibuster tactic they have already shown their willingness to use everything in their arsenal to block Bush's judicial nominees.
If it comes down to it, the repubs should use the nuclear option, for that reason. Hopefully it won't come to that, but the way they have been acting I wonder if it shouldn't have been done already.
I'd give them one more opportunity, but if it looks, sounds, or even smells like they are willing to filibuster again, then by all means, push the dang button. At this point I see no sense in letting them get away with undermining the people, their representatives, and their president.
The fact that they've placed Howard Dean in control of the DNC ought to be a clue as to what their response is going to be. But we'll see soon enough.
Good idea, I'll do the same when they call me.
Watch the usual suspects and their same, inane,
talking points..prepared by the paid guy in DC..
think name is Neves or similar. They all get a
panicky smile on their face when faced with these
momentous decisions...wimps. If the nominee is
qualified and has been reviewed by the bar,etc. and
is recommended by the President...Why do they come
up with .."he has thoughts about beating his Mother-In-Law"..or some other Kennedyism. Jake
Send Sen. First into the chamber wearing a rad detector. That ought to get the 'rats attention.
By the way, talked to a well-known Senator this past weekend. Republicans are calling the simple majority vote the "Constitutional" option, not the nuclear option.
The nuclear option is what the Dems did with the filibusters. He also told me that Robert Byrd changed the same rule 3 times on filibusters and that Trent Lott had done so twice. So there is precedent for the change in the Senate rules.
Also, it appears that Janice Rogers Brown will be the first up. She is a conservative black female who sits on the California Supreme Court. And get this -- she is the daughter of a sharecropper from Greenville, Alabama (about 40 miles south of Montgomery, AL.
A beeber!?
LOL... sure hope the white house got Sphincter's approval to nominate these folks.
And Hillary, should she ever be President, will rue the day she thought of this tactic.
There is, unfortunately, no surefire predictor. But our chances of getting better judges just went way up
I did not like my call from RNC. Very high pressure. How was yours?
You got that right.
Glad to see Janice Rogers Brown up again.
The same. At one point, I almost hung up on the caller, who was persisting despite what I had told him.
I believe that he has specifically withdrawn and has or plans to retire.
Great post!
These judges MUST be approved. The Senate must "Go Nuclear" if the scumbags obstruct again. This is a HUGE piece of what the election was all about. This opportunity must not be squandered - - it may be too late before such an opportunity ever comes again.
This is what I like to see - Bush please stand up for social conservatism - which he has not done in the past.
He retired following the end of his recess appointment.
>>Just got a call from RNC for my next donation. Told the caller I would wait until the Rep. senators got the conservative judges confirmed.<<
Good thought. I have my mail request sitting in my stack of bills to go out tomorrow. Perhaps I will wait just a little while longer.
I want judges who follow the law..not make the law.
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