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Senate Democrats Think They Can Block Pickering
Reuters ^
| January 9, 2003
| Thomas Ferraro
Posted on 01/09/2003 1:29:17 PM PST by Dog Gone
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:29:17 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
Reuters needs to keep their bias out of this. This bears no resemblance to the Lott episode at all.
This will be the warmup for the Supreme Court nominations. Do Bush and the Senate Republicans have the guts to get tough to get their guy through?
To: Dog Gone
Maybe they can filibuster...who knows?
I'm just glad we're taking the fight to them.
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:33:41 PM PST
by
jra
To: Dog Gone
Pickering, whose appointment is strongly opposed by civil rights activists.Just so these so-called civil rights activists know...Pickering once testified AGAINST THE KKK at great peril to himself,and his family. They endured death threats & the like.SO, now EXPLAIN to me how he can be racist??? Because YOU want him to be. Because it's the EASIEST way to cry foul?
Why not let our elected officals DO THEIR JOBS?
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:33:59 PM PST
by
Puppage
To: Dog Gone
If the RATs decide to put all their eggs in one basket with the Pickering nomination and keep him from getting confirmed by getting 41 votes, it will come back to haunt them in 2004 IMHO!
Yesterday at the WH when the President reached out to the RATs once again about setting a new tone during the meeting where he signed the unemployment extension, it was duly noted that the only people on camera at the table were the President, Speaker Hastert, and Majority Leader Frist.
The RATs worst nightmare will come true if they attempt to block the Pickering nomination. All the facts will get out and the RATs on the floor of the Senate will look like the Obstructionist they truly are which won us seats in the last election. The RATs haven't seen anything yet IMHO!
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:39:55 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004!)
To: Dog Gone
So, there IS or HAS BEEN progress?
To: Puppage
The Dem party is nothing but a high-output lie factory. And right now they are experiencing high inventories of the politics of personal destruction. Problem is, I'm not sure they are even able to sell this tripe even at deeply discounted prices. They can take their sale and shove it....
To: PhiKapMom
. The RATs haven't seen anything yet IMHO!Exactly correct. Their box that Bush is putting them in is getting smaller.
To: Dog Gone
...whose appointment is strongly opposed by civil rights activistsWow! Did you know that, Kevin? Apparently ALL "civil rights activists" oppose this guy every last mother's son of them! ALL of them!
...and if not, the opposition had better start grabbing cameras and microphones, and making itself heard. Doncha think?
Dan
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:44:30 PM PST
by
BibChr
To: jra
If they want to filibuster, the GOP better make them really filibuster the old fashioned way. Let them stand up there for two weeks making asses of themselves, while Bush goes about the business of leading the country.
Too often, the GOP just wimps out, withdraws the nominee and says, "There's nothing we could do! They had enough votes for a filibuster."
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:45:13 PM PST
by
dead
To: BOBTHENAILER
Wonder how long the Senate RATs are going to stick with ms. clinton when that box gets smaller and smaller?
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:46:48 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004!)
To: dead
Who knows, maybe they will be filiblustering when the bombs start droping on Iraq?
To: Trueblackman
...whose appointment is strongly opposed by civil rights activistsWow! Did you know that, Kevin? Apparently ALL "civil rights activists" oppose this guy every last mother's son of them! ALL of them!
...and if not, the opposition had better start grabbing cameras and microphones, and making itself heard. Doncha think?
Dan
(#9 was supposed to be to you! Sorry!)
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:46:51 PM PST
by
BibChr
To: jra
I'm just glad we're taking the fight to them.Amen...the best counter to Clinton's most lasting legacy(the Federal bench) is a two term W getting some real jurists seated.
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:47:21 PM PST
by
gundog
To: nutmeg
bump to read later
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:47:27 PM PST
by
nutmeg
To: Dog Gone
The public in general really don't care about civil rights issues because they feel they have gone too far.It is just a handful of troublemakers and the GOP needs to realize this.
To: nutmeg
These sewer DRats will go screaming in the night IF GW stands up to them. This is one time that I feel GW is doing the correct decision & bringing him up again. Let's see who blinks.
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:53:13 PM PST
by
Digger
To: Zack Nguyen
Do Bush and the Senate Republicans have the guts to get tough to get their guy through? It would have been very easy not to nominate him again. And they knew it would be a battle.
I have to assume that they intend to wage that battle.
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:53:40 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
W should put Pickering between Laura and Medgar Evers brother during the SOU speach. Point him out and give his credentials and endorsements.
Let Schumer fillibuster that.
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:54:03 PM PST
by
TC Rider
To: dead
If they want to filibuster, the GOP better make them really filibuster the old fashioned way.
I agree, make `em yap.
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posted on
01/09/2003 1:56:19 PM PST
by
mr.pink
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