Posted on 05/18/2005 6:12:21 AM PDT by CWW
LA Times Reporting This Morning --
Moderates Fail to Avert Senate Fight; A deal uniting six senators from each side appears to make no progress as GOP leaders plan to open debate today on Priscilla Owen
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... .In the hours before the parliamentary battle was to begin, the spotlight shone on a dozen centrists from both parties who discussed a potential compromise to defuse the dispute.
After an hour and a half of discussions that included Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the meeting broke up with no progress reported.
Republicans, including some of the centrists, have said they would accept no deal in which Democrats retain the right to filibuster. Democrats say they would not take part in a compromise in which they give up that right. ...
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Enough with the "Breakinh" already.
Lighten up -- put some sugar in that black coffee!
Oh come on LAT. Since when did this become a matter of rights.
I am sick of hearing the repubs are "changing the rules".
The fence sitters apparently don't know their history. NO COMPROMISES!!
I just wonder, what if Frist can't pull it off and McCain can convince 5 other fence sitters to vote with him? What a disaster. I certainly hope that privately senators who are afraid to commit publicly have told Frist privately they will vote with the party.
In plain english ... spineless RINOs
It seems as if the media panders to these "moderates". I wonder why the term "moderate" appeals so much to the media.
I wonder why the term "moderate" appeals so much to the media. Because RINOS like to be called "moderates" and "mavericks."
This is going to be an historic unfolding.
This country needs fewer talkers and more doers.
Good!
Don't be so hard on the Slimes. They are just jumping ahead to the point where the fillibuster becomes part and parcel of the Constitution. Here is how it will happen. If the dems lose on this issue, you can bet they will end up in the courts arguing that the fillibuster can't be eliminated by the majority. You can also bet that some judge (read Clinton appointee political operative wearing a black robe) will de facto amend our "living" Constitution to find that the fillibuster is really in there and can't be elminated. In effect the Courts will continue their power grab to the point where THEY are telling Congress how to enact its own rules and laws. Separation of powers, what is that!?!?!
Priscilla Richman Owen is currently a Justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. Prior to her election to that court in 1994, she was a partner in the Houston office of Andrews & Kurth L.L.P. where she practiced commercial litigation for seventeen years. She received a bachelor of arts degree, cum laude, from Baylor University, and graduated in the top of her class from Baylor Law School in 1977, receiving a juris doctor, cum laude. She was a member of the Baylor law review.
In private practice, Owen handled a broad range of civil matters at the trial and appellate levels. She was admitted to practice before various state and federal trial courts, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Eight, and Eleventh Circuits. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Judicature Society, the American Bar Association, and a Fellow of the American and Houston Bar Foundations.
Justice Owen served as the liaison to the Supreme Court of Texas’ Court-Annexed Mediation Task Force and to statewide committees regarding legal services to the poor and pro bono legal services. She was part of a committee that successfully encouraged the Texas Legislature to enact legislation that has resulted in millions of dollars per year in additional funds for providers of legal services to the poor. Justice Owen also serves as a member of the board of the A.A. White Dispute Resolution Institute and is on the boards of advisors of the Houston and Austin Chapters of the Federalist Society. Owen was instrumental in organizing a group known as Family Law 2000 that seeks to find ways to educate parents about the effect the dissolution of a marriage can have on their children and to lessen the adversarial nature of legal proceedings when a marriage is dissolved.
Justice Owen has been honored as Baylor Young Lawyer of the Year and as a Baylor University Outstanding Young Alumna. Among her community activities, Justice Owen serves on the board of Texas Hearing & Service Dogs. She is a member of St. Barnabas Episcopal Mission in Austin, Texas where she teaches Sunday School and serves as the head of the altar guild.
In her successful re-election bid to the Supreme Court of Texas in 2000, every major newspaper in Texas endorsed Owen.
Does this mean the democrats can read out the phone book on the senate floor?
In plain english ... spineless RINOs
You are SO right on!! The RATs don't need a majority when these weenie wussies go along with them on everything!
Technically, yes. There are a couple of pressure points against it. One is an objection that doing so is purely dilatory. ANother is the political ramification against a Senator who wastes time for the purpose of avoiding voting against the nominee. IOW, the nominee is not that big a deal, not as big a deal as civil rights legislation, for example.
I'll be real surprized if a DEM Senator does that. It will likely be seen as DEMs holding up the working of the Senate. Their whole gambit is avoiding the vote.
Where is NOW? and where is their support for this woman? Oh, yea, I forgot -- they only support LIBERAL/SOCIALIST women. Hypocrites!! And where is NOW and the NAACP and where is their support for Janice Rogers Brown?? Oh, yea, she's a conservative -- no support for a black woman who strayed off the plantation!! Makes me want to puke!
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