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To: 185JHP
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

13 posted on 03/02/2003 8:39:22 PM PST by hatfieldmccoy
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To: hatfieldmccoy
You caught that too...has his dander up
16 posted on 03/02/2003 8:41:45 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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