Posted on 01/30/2008 7:19:07 AM PST by ECM
I’m a NASCAR dad too. Got my Bristol (spring race) tickets this week.
They don’t have enough votes; at least not yet.
>>If we get Hillary or Obama nominating Supreme Court Justices I think we will be glad we still have the fillibuster option.
At least until the Dems go with the nuclear option. Do you honestly expect them to play fair?
They don’t have enough votes to end a fillibuster. Not yet anyway.
oh i dont know about that
true Amnesty and aversion to tax cuts but McCain gets it with the war (for the most part), better with gun rights, better on abortion, better with spending cuts (in theory we shall see if he can actually do this if elected), and i do think he would appoint better justices. not GREAT justices mind you but a heck of a lot better than Clinton/Bama would.
Again i am saying BETTER than Clinton/Bama not great or stupendous but better than the alternative two on the Dem side.
How could anyone with a regard for truth “spin” the gang of fourteen as positive accomplishment for conservatives?
I wish it were that simple, then I could join you in blaming McCain...
I sure don't remember ongoing filibuters over each of the appointees, after this so-called "gang of 14" agreement. Am I missing something?
It's a bit more complicated than that, isn't it? [not that I prefer it to be that way]
If we wanted to exercise a 'nuclear option', perhaps it would be best to have done it earlier on, after Republicans had regained a Senate majority, or if not that far back, then at least a few years earlier...
As it was, we would have been stinking up the joint, on our way out!
He ain't my candidate and the party that nominates this traitorous bastard is no longer my party.
Talk all you want about keeping Hillary or Obama out, but I don't see any benefit to ruining what's left of the country under the guise of pretending to be conservative. Ruin is Ruin. Let the liberals have the credit for it because the result is the same.
The GOP nominates this man for President and my entire family will change our registration from GOP to independent.
Anyone that thinks the Republican Senators will filibuster an ultra-liberal judge is just whistling in the wind.
The RINOS will cave in and let the judges go to a vote.
This writer is caught up in the appeasment strategy of John McCain.
Screw McAmnesty, and screw the media that continually props him up.
Damn, this guy sounds like Medved.
This guy has been reading my posts. The “Gang of Fourteen” was a masterpiece.
The rats never knew what hit them.
That said, McCain is still a Democrat scumbag and there are no vice grips in the world strong enough to put on my nose so I could ever vote for him.
“Looks like me and the Maytag repair guy will be pretty lonely on November 4 as we both sit home with nothing to do.”
I was going to sit home but now I believe that for POTUS I will vote third party, and following that, down-the-line Repub. I just WILL NOT EVER vote for Juan McAmnesty.
Yup... The President is supposed to make appointments. The Senate is supposed to approve/dissaprove them by majority vote. THAT is what the constitution requires... and, we were ABOUT To establish that principle once and for all... Until McCain, Graham, and their group of squishy fish jumped in to keep the sham going.
I know using the "Nuclear Option" meant the same process would apply when Dims were in power.... That's fine. It's the way the process is SUPPOSED to work.
Elections matter. And, winning Presidents get to pick judges... NOT a minority cabal in the Senate.
Nope. Sorry. I disagree with the article.
Pleasing the base matters. Pleasing the evangelical base in 2005-2006 would have mattered a lot.
Got to know when to compromise and when to play hardball. I will agree that the Republicans in the Senate need to play hardball should a Demonrat be elected President in 2008, whether or not they have a majority. Of course, with McCain, Snowe and Voinovich this is not likely.
Yes, you forget how many judicial nominees had been blocked by the democrats. This created a huge log jam of time and effort to get the nominees subsequently through. The left still had the threat of filibuster available, even if not utilized, and this also caused more delay. So, a trickle of them went through and then the democrats came in power. The left did not need to filibuster judges any more once in power.
The nuclear option would have opened the flood gate of nominees prior to 2006. It should have been utilized years ago.
Masterpiece for whom.... how many judges have been placed upon the benches since President Bush was elected, compared to Clintonism dark days of judicial appointing? The Republicans backed US into a corner with the leadership of all things call a GANG? Oh my, statesmanship has reached the muddy bottom.
Two words, Bull S***.
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