...for the DumoRATS.
Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
Posted on 05/01/2009 10:07:49 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party means Democrats may need another moderate Republican to help them move a Supreme Court nominee out of the Judiciary Committee.
At first glance, with Democrats a hair away from a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, one would expect President Obama to have no trouble hand-picking a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
But in an ironic twist, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party this week could give Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee the upper hand in rejecting a nominee they find unacceptable.
That's because the Judiciary Committee, where Specter was the ranking minority member, requires the consent of at least one Republican to end debate and move a nominee to the full Senate for a vote.
"I think, in narrow terms, it could present a procedural problem at the committee level, unless the Democrats are going to change the rules of the committee midstream," William Jacobson, a professor of law at Cornell University, told FOXNews.com.
"Most people presume in a controversial nomination that Arlen Specter would have been the one most likely to vote with Democrats, since he prides himself on being independent of Republicans. But now that he moves over to the Democratic side, the president and Democrats lost their most likely minority vote."
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Oh! They'd never do that...
Boy that’s rich! Gotta love that.
So getting rid of these buffoons does pay off after all.
“..unless the Democrats are going to change the rules of the committee midstream,”
Sorry but they’ll change the rules and sphincter’s jump won’t mean anything.
If Oral Snatch is still there, the ‘rats won’t have to search to hard.
If Graham wants to be re-elected his next time out, he is going to have to watch his voting record and try to look more conservative. I don’t think he is going to be real interested in looking like a friend to the Rats.
The GOP of the beltway have concluded voters are not necissary to the eleciton process.
They just need magic words and absentee ballot voter fraud, just like the democrats.
Since when did Obummer give a fig for the Constitution.
Sorry to say, when I saw some Republicans saying they’d never vote for McCain I figured you may as well elect Obama and you may as well watch the Supreme Court turn blue as Massachusetts.
Because that, I’m sure is, and WAS the plan of the Dems before they won the election.
“Specter’s Defection Could Help Republicans Block a Nominee to Replace Souter”
HA! Don’t count on it.
I just heard on the radio that Biden is
in charge of the “search” for a justice
to replace Souter.
Yeah Rush was talking about this in the last hour.
It is amazing how Lindsey has such solid support within the SC GOP. They may not even know how liberal he can be.
He had no trouble in 2008; why would 2014 be an obstacle? By then SC and all the states will be overrun with liberals.
Orin Hatch gave us two of the worst ever when we had a majority under Clinton. These weasels are all incestious.
The GOP ruling elite really doesn’t have much interest in the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court is focused on domestic social issues. Rarely does a case involving commercial issues go to the Supremes; these issues are usually handled in other courts. An exception is Kelo, where the Court predictably protected corporate and government interests at the expense of private property rights. As long as the cases don’t upset the balance of power or the relative competitive situation between corporations, they are content to simply pass the resulting costs on to the consumer.
...for the DumoRATS.
Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
Snarlin’ looses his seat, does he not?
Who will be his replacement on the Judiciary Committee?
What about Thune of SD?
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