Transcript: Sen. Pat Roberts on Fox News Sunday (Are Republicans prepared to fight for Estrada)

foxnews ^ | 3/2/2003 | TONY SNOW/SEN. PAT ROBERTS

[TLBSHOW]

HUME: Senator, how hard are Republicans prepared to fight, and for how long, to end the filibuster against the judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada?

ROBERTS: That's a pretty sad commentary. It's not only Estrada. You're getting my dander up now. It's not only Estrada; it is a new standard. If this sticks, if the filibuster sticks, it will mean that you will have to have 60 votes for any nominee. We are really changing the constitutional design of what it takes to basically nominate and approve any judge. That's the big issue, as well as Estrada. So, we're going to keep fighting.

[185JHP]

We can win this without losing an iota of honor. All it takes is enough sand.

[potlatch]

Well good, Britt put the right question to him!

[potlatch]

We need to send the Senators a GIANT hourglass!!

[TLBSHOW]

ping

[TLBSHOW]

He sure did.

[potlatch]

Britt is the BEST!!

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HUME: Well, Senator, that may be so, but the majority can control what is on the Senate floor at any given moment and how long the Senate stays in session day after day or whether overnight or not.

And there is a difference between an old-fashioned filibuster, an exhausting affair that is difficult for the filibusters to wage, and the more genteel kinds of filibusters that have been conducted in recent years, where you just go on to other things between cloture votes. Which is it going to be?

[potlatch]

Hey, I looked at your 'home' page a while back - took a while to load up on my laptop! Is that dog a Greyhound??

[potlatch]

Yes, it was great, he always asks the tough questions. The Republican Senators are being a bunch of wimps!!

[TLBSHOW]

Fox News Headline...

Republicans Try to Break Filibuster on Estrada
Frist mulls procedural vote that could force a loss of embattled judicial nominee

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79845,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/index.html

[TLBSHOW]

What is their problem, do you know?

[hatfieldmccoy]

HUME: Well, Senator, that may be so, but the majority can control what is on the Senate floor at any given moment and how long the Senate stays in session day after day or whether overnight or not. And there is a difference between an old-fashioned filibuster, an exhausting affair that is difficult for the filibusters to wage, and the more genteel kinds of filibusters that have been conducted in recent years, where you just go on to other things between cloture votes. Which is it going to be?

ROBERTS: I don't think the other side has been very genteel. I think to simply grant us a vote makes a great deal of sense, not only for Miguel Estrada but also not to have a standard that you're going to have 60 votes for any judge that comes down the pike. I'm not normally a partisan person, but this, you know, this really, this really disturbs me in regards to changing the way that any future judge will be approved. This is a constitutional issue as well as Estrada. It's got my dander up.

Whoo Boy this will put the fear of God in those Democrats Their not genteel, it really disturbs him and it really has his dander up. It's about preserving the bloody Constitution you wimp. Jesus, the Republican Party can be so...so..French at times

[Jack Black]

THESE RULES ARE NOT SET IN STONE!
CHANGE THEM !!!
END THE FILLIBUSTER RULE !

[Jael]

Thanks for the ping!!!

[TLBSHOW]

You caught that too...has his dander up

[potlatch]

Lol, as if I knew! I think they are just too 'nice'. Remember; kinder, gentler{sp?], etc.!!

[clintonh8r]

REPUBLICAN SENATE WIMP-OUT ALERT!

[TLBSHOW]

Well you can you can read it, is this the best our side can do? Their dander is up...

The rats are going to be scared at that huh?

[alternatives?]

Why don't conservatives stage a slowdown in both federal and state courts? Every jury of twelve should have at least one conservative. If every conservative on a jury could not be convinced beyound a reasonable doubt we could bring the whole judiciary branch to a halt due to hung juries. How long before there were no convictions before it would force the issue? If somebody like Rush published the idea it could get traction because conservatives are fed up with the Estrada mess. The only option the courts would have is to exclude all conservatives from jury duty.