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Schumer regrets not leading an Alito filibuster ("we should not confirm a 'SCOTUS' nominee EXCEPT")
Washington Post ^ | 07/27/2007 | Paul Kane

Posted on 07/27/2007 10:50:38 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: mdmathis6

It’s already stated in our constitution that only legislators, duly elected by the people, may write law. There’s no exception for these damn bureaucrats. Bureaucrats writing law is one of the signature features of a dictatorship - the soviets in the former USSR and the functionairies in fascist Germany, being two recent examples.

And you’re right, it will take years to build support, but the process can be quickened by challenging these bureaucrat dictators in court by refusing to follow any decrees or dictates issued by these Marxist bureaucracies. There is simply no constitutional basis allowing an unelected lackey hired by the government to write law.

People need a basic civic lesson that only elected representatives may write law.


41 posted on 07/28/2007 7:07:38 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: neverdem

Sounds like an admission of incompotence to me.


42 posted on 07/28/2007 7:11:13 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: neverdem
It is easy to suspect that Schumer’s Mother had a few regrets too. The greatest of which was probably, not aborting him. His Father probably spent his life regretting that he hadn’t received a vasectomy along with his circumcision.
43 posted on 07/28/2007 7:51:46 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (All our Washington Comedians.. politicians ? whatever!,say to Mexico: " Take my country....Please.")
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To: neverdem

Schmuckie’s latest hand-wringing over the Alito appointment leads me to think there’s another SCOTUS retirement in the works.

He and his henchmen in the senate make me sick.


44 posted on 07/28/2007 8:48:10 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (Don't you worry, never fear, FDT will soon be here. http://www.imwithfred.com)
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To: neverdem

Why Schumer hasn’t been tried for Treason yet is beyond me...


45 posted on 07/28/2007 8:50:54 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Captain Culpepper

I would love to see Janice Rogers Brown on SCOTUS.


46 posted on 07/28/2007 8:59:14 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (Don't you worry, never fear, FDT will soon be here. http://www.imwithfred.com)
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To: neverdem

In 1993 and 1994, respectively, Orrin G. Hatch, senior “Republican” at the time on the Senate Judiciary Committee, cosponsored his friend “Bill” Clinton’s nominations of Ruth Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Is Orrin still waiting for the Dems to thank him for his “broad-mindedness”?


47 posted on 07/28/2007 9:35:59 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: Arrowhead1952

There are no term limits in the U.S. Senate because the people don’t want term limits. That wanted Byrd, Rockefeller, Thurmond, EMK, Stevens, Bentsen, and some of the other long-termers.


48 posted on 07/28/2007 9:38:22 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: Theodore R.
There are no term limits in the U.S. Senate because the people don’t want term limits. That wanted Byrd, Rockefeller, Thurmond, EMK, Stevens, Bentsen, and some of the other long-termers.

That's why we need term limits.

Do you believe in term limits for Congress?

Despite a recent House vote against it, talk radio is still being threatened by the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine. With the near evisceration of McCain - Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act by the Supreme Court and the failure of the comprehensive "Shamnesty" in the Senate, the neoCOMs will be pushing harder for the Fairness Doctrine. Call talk radio. Use that as an opening to push for a Constitutional Amendment to give Congress term limits.

49 posted on 07/28/2007 9:56:52 AM PDT by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: Fudd Fan

That might be the smartest post I’ve read yet. Care to speculate who will step down? Ginsburg? John Paul Stevens?


50 posted on 07/28/2007 10:35:30 AM PDT by TheThinker
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To: nathanbedford
What a list of disgusting vermin. The whole mess is suggestive of mutualistic symbiotic relationships often found in nature when bacteria take up residence in nematodes that go on to infect larger, unsuspecting hosts. The Moonbat, afraid of being denied government "help", swallows the lies of the worm-like Schumers who are in turn being played by the Soros bacterium.

End result: Schumer gets a little power; Soros gets a lot more money in a world being run as he sees fit; and the people get screwed at the polls by Moonbat majorities that reside in the fat part of the bell curve. This, of course, is the reason that our Founders wanted nothing to do with pure democracy.
51 posted on 07/28/2007 11:30:03 AM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.-- Mencken)
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To: Theodore R.
There are no term limits in the U.S. Senate because the people don’t want term limits. That wanted Byrd, Rockefeller, Thurmond, EMK, Stevens, Bentsen, and some of the other long-termers.

I don't think "We the people" want the "career politicians" currently in office. I think there should be term limits for one simple reason. Make those politicians that make the laws have to live under the laws they passed while in office, and pay for all their retirement and health care as we do. If you wanted social security or any other retirement system to work, put those @holes in DC under the same system. They would fix it in one session.

52 posted on 07/28/2007 2:01:53 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Stop the invasion. Secure the borders now.)
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To: neverdem
"Every two years, I look back and take stock of my greatest failings and regrets in the past Congress."

I regret that your DSCC staffers Katie Barge and Lauren Weiner haven't directly linked you to the identity theft of Lt. Gov. Michael Steele -- yet.

53 posted on 07/28/2007 3:13:26 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: nathanbedford
"Why is he concerned for the base? I think it is because the base of the Democrat party is either out of control or, conversely, utterly under the control of one man, George Soros. Either the mob at moveon.org and Daily Kos have so utterly intimidated elected Democrats that those Democrats are more concerned with mollifying their extremists, or something else is afoot."

Your answer lies within your question. Hillary can't win in '08 unless they fool their nutroots. They can't afford to have one single Kossack sit on their hands (their usual posture).

54 posted on 07/28/2007 3:18:58 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: neverdem

Schumer is right he is a failure as senator but not for what he thinks! He is an obstructionist, he is fighting his war within instead of fighting the very creatures that will kill Americans as well as jews! Thats the real fight senator!


55 posted on 07/28/2007 3:23:32 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (I'd rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
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To: neverdem

the only reasons that the opposition party can use to disqualify a scotus nominee are intellectual unfitness, immorality, and law breaking.

schumer is wrong.


56 posted on 07/28/2007 3:42:28 PM PDT by ken21 ( b 4 fred.)
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To: sergeantdave

I’m not sure what you are asking me for. This is a very broad subject.


57 posted on 07/29/2007 1:34:58 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: TheThinker

Gosh, thanks... but it’s due to Schmuckie-watching, not smarts, perhaps! :)

Stevens might be the best bet, if we’re guessing. Schmuckie is a first-class jerk, but he’s not stupid. He doesn’t do or say anything without a slimey ulterior motive. The scenario I posted just makes the most sense to me. Why would he be setting the stage for a SCOTUS appointment fight if he didn’t have some inside knowledge?

Schumer is a dangerous man. IIRC, someone posted that he takes orders from Soros. That’s probably true too.


58 posted on 07/29/2007 10:49:55 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (Don't you worry, never fear, FDT will soon be here. http://www.imwithfred.com)
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To: neverdem

Drink Draino Chuck you worthless turd.


59 posted on 07/31/2007 2:08:55 PM PDT by Yankee
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