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Dems: We Don’t Really Want Answers from Estrada.
National Review ^
| March 4, 2003
| Byron York
Posted on 03/04/2003 6:44:43 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: conservativecorner
Great move in gathering these quotes. Now they actually need to use them, over and over, during the filibuster.
Big BTTT.
To: conservativecorner
We should be screaming this from all roof tops. The racist Dims never had any questions at all...
To: conservativecorner
What burns me is the GOP has not Blasted Paul Bender as a so called reason PAUL BENDER: His record
Bender appears to be the one whose ideology interferes with his lawyering. As the "political" deputy in the Solicitor Generals Office, he had inordinate influence over policy on a range of controversial issues, including child pornography. Bender had been chief counsel to the 1970 presidential commission on obscenity that recommended eliminating all legal restraints on obscenity and pornography. The Senate voted 95 to 5 to reject this extreme proposal.
Bender apparently carried the cause forward to the Clinton Administration. A case titled United States v. Knox involved a pedophile convicted of possessing videotapes of young girls provocatively posed and scantily dressed. The legal issue in his U.S. Supreme Court appeal was whether the federal child porn statute, banning depictions of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area," could apply when the minor was at least partially clothed. The Clinton Justice Department first argued in March 1993 that the statute did not require actual nudity.
After the Supreme Court accepted the case, the Justice Department switched positions and in September 1993 sided with the pedophile, arguing for a narrow definition of child porn. The difference? Bender had come on board. Since the prosecutor now supported the criminal, the Supreme Court sent the case back without deciding it. The U.S. Court of Appeals, however, later twice rejected this unprecedented and radical re-definition of child porn
This time the Senate voted 100 to 0, and the House voted 426 to 3, for a resolution condemning Benders position. President Clinton himself, no prude in sexual matters, agreed in writing with the Senate that the new Benderized definition was unacceptable. But Bender is the man claiming Estrada is an ideologue. No wonder Bender hasnt given interviews on this subject in months.
This is his critic???
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03/04/2003 6:49:01 AM PST
by
scooby321
To: truthkeeper
Great move in gathering these quotes. Now they actually need to use them, over and over, during the filibuster. I couldn't agree more. The Dems have given us a great opportunity on a silver platter, and Frist is risking seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.
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posted on
03/04/2003 6:49:05 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: truthkeeper
Its all politics. In the meantime their socialist agenda is still in the wastebasket. Learn to love their stupid filibuster since that's one good thing that's come out of their blocking a vote to confirm Miguel Estrada.
To: conservativecorner
BUMP
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posted on
03/04/2003 6:49:56 AM PST
by
TLBSHOW
(God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
To: conservativecorner
clymers! bump
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posted on
03/04/2003 6:49:56 AM PST
by
lonestar
(Don't mess with Texans)
To: conservativecorner
I really don't understand the Democrats,they are opening a can of worms that can be used against them in the future and they just don't care.
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03/04/2003 6:50:17 AM PST
by
linn37
(work my fingers to the bone and what do I get?)
To: conservativecorner
There's only one question, and democrats won't ask it because they know if they expose their position, the folks back home won't forget.
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03/04/2003 6:50:22 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.)
To: linn37
"I work my fingers to the bone and what do I get?"
Bony fingers, of course. ;-D
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03/04/2003 6:51:06 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.)
To: conservativecorner
Thanks for posting this! Bryon York is right on top of this with facts!
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posted on
03/04/2003 7:00:43 AM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004)
To: conservativecorner
As the filibuster continues, when a Democratic senator complains that Estrada has failed to answer questions, Republicans will ask whether he or she asked Estrada any questions when the White House invited such inquiries. Republicans, of course, already know the answer. Their goal now is to make sure the public knows, too.I called my dim senator's office yesterday to grill the handler about her assertion that my senator needed more information. "Did the senator submit any written questions as White House counsel Gonzalez invited him to do? Did he sit down with Estrada? How does he expect to get more information if he doesn't do these things?" She then claimed that he wants to see DOJ memos. "Why would the DOJ change its rules for Estrada, other than that he's Hispanic? Don't you know how racist that sounds? Not a single nominee in history has ever had DOJ or Solicitor General or other internal memos released to the Senate when considering a nominee? Do you even know that? Does the senator know that? Why is the minority nominee being singled out? Why is a double standard being applied to Estrada?"
It's actually quite fun and best of all the call was free.
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03/04/2003 7:01:56 AM PST
by
Kryptonite
(Free Miguel)
To: conservativecorner
I guess it is one thing to verbally ask a rhetorical question that has no answer, but putting themselves on the record with written questions seems to have frightened the poor Dems.
Gutless hypocrites. I want to see Hillary's questions, on the record, for public discussion. Put up or shut up.
To: linn37
It's their outstanding leadership that's destroying the entire party, and it's all related to the leaderships giant EGO PROBLEM.
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03/04/2003 7:23:42 AM PST
by
chiefqc
To: Kryptonite
Mega BUMP!!
To: Slicksadick
It's not about "Race". Stop screaming like a liberal harpie...It's not helpful. It's about him being conservative and you know it. More importantly, anyone with a BRAIN knows it. Your accusations ONLY make us all look like a bunch of race-baiters. Just like liberals commonly look.
Give it a rest. We're better than them.
To: conservativecorner
bump
To: The Lake City Gar
While I admit that the Estrada filibuster is more about ideology than anything else, I think it is wrong to say the Dems are not racist.
Just look at affirmative action. The whole thing comes down to "What color is your skin?" We have a job opening, are you the right man for the job? I won't know until I get a look at the color of your skin. You want to attend my University? I dunno. We're pretty particular -- what color is your skin?
Name me a Republican platform item that smacks of racism. There isn't one. For the Dems, it's all about promoting abortion, and the judgement of people based on skin color.
To: conservativecorner
All of the Republican Senators should have submitted a set of questions to make their case stronger, "We Republicans took the White House up on their offer and submitted our questions - all of which he answered to our satisfaction. We can't understand why you Democrats did not take advantage of this opportunity..."
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