Senator Leahy's Comments on Senate Floor against Estrada (26 Feb 2003) (Revised) (BARF ALERT)

The Congressional Record (New Search required each time) ^ | 27 Feb 2003 | Sen Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

[PhiKapMom]

I have tried to bold important paragraphs!

BTW -- these are revised comments that made it into the Congressional record. We need to transcribe here on the live threads what these RATs are saying as when they revise their comments for the Congressonal record, they change like Ms. Clinton's also changed.

This from Leahy's comments: "Again, you have to ask why. What is in there that they don't want us to see?" My question would be why they are so intent on seeing his working papers on various cases including dealing with the Clintons?

Need a good reason to work to confirm Estrada? Here it is:

We do know some things about him. According to news accounts, after one of his mentors, Kenneth Starr, left the Office of the Solicitor General, he said Estrada was ``left working for a Justice Department whose views he didn't always agree with.''

[PhiKapMom]

This is the Bush 2004/Senate ping list because it is the only one I have!

It is quite evidence from Leahy's revised comments from The Congressiona Record that the DemocRATS are opposed to Miguel Estrada for several main reasons:

1. Estrada is considered a conservative and pro-life

2. Estrada worked in the Clinton Solicitor General's office and didn't always agree with the DOJ. That means he had access from 1993 - 1997 to all the Clinton Crime Family scandels and most likely made memo's on them.

3. Estrada participated in the Bush/Cheney appeal to the SCOTUS as part of the law firm.

4. Estrada is a protege of Ken Starr and Ted Olson it seems and I will throw in Rudy who he worked for in the Southern District of NY.

5. Estrada is wealthy!

Any more reasons would be appreciated as I just hit what I considered the highlights of their attacks on Estrada!

[alloysteel]

It is not that Miguel Estrada has refused to answer the questions posed by the Judiciary Committee. He answered every one of them which he had been permitted to answer, using the guidelines set up by earlier leadership of the Judiciary Committee. As for the ones he did answer, those responses were simply not the right answers to please Sen. Leahy.

[PhiKapMom]

This is the Bush 2004/Senate ping list because it is the only one I have!

It is quite evidence from Leahy's revised comments from The Congressiona Record that the DemocRATS are opposed to Miguel Estrada for several main reasons:

1. Estrada is considered a conservative and pro-life

2. Estrada worked in the Clinton Solicitor General's office and didn't always agree with the DOJ. That means he had access from 1993 - 1997 to all the Clinton Crime Family scandels and most likely made memo's on them.

3. Estrada participated in the Bush/Cheney appeal to the SCOTUS as part of the law firm.

4. Estrada is a protege of Ken Starr and Ted Olson it seems and I will throw in Rudy who he worked for in the Southern District of NY.

5. Estrada is wealthy!

Any more reasons would be appreciated as I just hit what I considered the highlights of their attacks on Estrada!

[hchutch]

They'll never admit it but here is number six.

6. He made it without handouts. What might that do to our lock on other minority voters?

[ken5050]

Did you hear that idiot Reid late yesterday talking about how rich Estrada was?..how much money he makes?..is this a new tactic by the Dems...that Estrada's not poor enough to be a representative of the Latino community.....first they attack the ABA, now any Latin who pays income taxes.....is it an outbreak of Mad Dem disease..??

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting those comments -- you are 100% correct on that!

[Bahbah]

" Estrada worked in the Clinton Solicitor General's office and didn't always agree with the DOJ. That means he had access from 1993 - 1997 to all the Clinton Crime Family scandels and most likely made memo's on them."

Hehehehe

[nicmarlo]

Bookmarked for several reasons: for later read and as a record of his exact remarks to be used against him later.....and there will be a later, mark my words.

[Dog Gone]

He's not endorsed by liberal hispanic groups.

[deport]

The sad thing is that outside of some political junkies etc. most of the populace will never understand or even be remotely aware of this event. I would suspect that much of the country couldn't even tell you who Miguel Estrada is, what he does, or have even heard of the Senate confirmation hearing...

Hopefully this can be used to some sucess localized to the Senators coming up for election in 04.

[Wait4Truth]

Isn't it fair to ask, when they prepared such material, whether they did it in a fair, evenhanded fashion? Or did they do it in an ideological manner? Did they do it to carry out an agenda?

And if this was the basis for confirmation of a judicial appointment, none of clinton's nominees would have ever become judges!!!!!!!!!!!!! Leahy is a maggot!

[Dolphy]

Great, Leahy outlined why he cannot vote for him. Obviously 55 other Senators don't share his view making Leahy the ideologue here, not Estrada.

[SquirrelKing]

SEN. LEAHY: Blah blah blah blah blah racist blah blah conservative blah blah abortion blah blah...blah...Zzzzzz (snore)......(Dream of golf)...

I think I hit the main points.

[PhiKapMom]

That's what it seems to be as well -- successful Hispanic cannot represent the Hispanic community and most of all is not wanted in Government service!

This is just flat out a slap in the face of every Hispanic -- if they make money, they are no longer Hispanic enough?

[meandog]

Leahy, you Vermont A-hole, I'd like to smash your face right between the sides of the hair around your bald pate and knock your chicklet teeth over the Senate floor. You didn't complain when your favorite New England nominee, David Souter, didn't answer questions; and you didn't breathe a word of protest when Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn't answer any questions!

[PhiKapMom]

Read this whole bunch of tripe as I wanted to bold some of the more important parts and got madder as I read. This should be mandatory reading for all Hispanics and anyone on here that doesn't believe we should go all out to support this nomination.

This is just such a slap in the face for being successful.

What I can say and what I would like to say to this are worlds apart!

[gov_bean_ counter]

It is time for some Executives Orders hitting these Dems states hard.

"Ve have vays of making you vote".

[PhiKapMom]

Leahy mentioned LULAC but the current Administration of LULAC endorses Estrada fully. These are the radical leftist of the LULAC and other organizations that used to run them before some more reasonable people took over at LULAC and others.

They got every liberal Hispanic they could find to denounce Estrada and yet there are a lot more "Groups" not individuals from those groups supporting him. Their big bag is to get a few individiuals from a group like LULAC and then say LULAC as an organization does not support Estrada.

Hatch debunked this tactic on the floor of the Senate -- substituting a few members for the whole group by the RATS!