Up All Night: Bill Frist gets serious about judges (FR mentioned!)

Townhall ^ | 11/13/2003 | Andrew Grossman

[Qwinn]

The post he references on Free Republic is now over 3800 posts and is found here

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[KantianBurke]

30 hrs of debate does NOT equal "getting serious" about conservative judicial nominees. "Damage control," "hoping this puts the issue to rest till after 04" and "placating the base" on the other hand...

[firewalk]

bttt

[My2Cents]

I'm a bit bugged that an article on a conservative news and views website (Townhall) refers to FreeRepublic as a "right wing" forum. Some may take pride in the lable "right wing," but to me it's a pejorative term. Otherwise, good article.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...Republicans need only stay the course...

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Don't you just love it when we're mentioned in the news? Must piss the DUmmies off.;-)

[ameribbean expat]

exactly. call me when frist gets the cojones to modify the senate rules, otherwise all they've done is stay up way past their bedtime.

[thoughtomator]

It's also arguable that FR is no longer right-wing, and hasn't been for quite some time. Middle-of-the-road is more like it.

[Qwinn]

Personally, I think modifying the senate rules would not necessarily be a good thing. Sure, it would take a lot of testosterone and all, but would it hurt them any more than it hurts us, in the long run?

The article itself mentions that option, and the downside. I definetly think that this is a better option to go with for now. I'm of the opinion that you don't go "nuclear" until you've exhausted all other conventional measures. This was a "conventional" measure that hadn't been tried. If this doesn't work, then there'll be a whole lot more popular support if and when the nuclear option IS tried later, because many more swing voters would agree that everything else had been tried.

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[Howlin]

Well, lookie here: we made the news again!

[ysoitanly]

The answer is: appoint them during recess, or appoint even more 'controversial' judges during recess in their place, which serves to make the 'real' ones less controversial. Enough is enough! The judges appointed during recess serve until 2004 and as history has spelled out, many have finally gotten formal appointments - Eisenhower and X42 did it, with those results. GROW A PAIR, FOLKS.

[Qwinn]

"I'm a bit bugged that an article on a conservative news and views website (Townhall) refers to FreeRepublic as a "right wing" forum. Some may take pride in the lable "right wing," but to me it's a pejorative term."

That doesn't bother me. One, I don't see it as a pejorative to anyone who isn't a Leftie already, and they're not going to be praising us anyway.

Secondly, I don't have a problem with conservative OR liberal websites identifying any political bias of their sources. That's actually a -good- thing. What only bothers me is when they always mention the "right-wing" bias of their sources and don't identify the bias of "left-wing" sources, or when they add praising modifiers to the left and negative modifiers to the right. Townhall doesn't do that, so their use of such terms doesn't bother me.

Qwinn

[Quilla]

Thanks for the ping! I particularly liked the line:

The Democratic Underground wanted to start a thread but neither of their two posters could spell filibuster.

[Howlin]

Me, too! ROFLMAO!

[temijin]

what if we chumped the democrats into believing it was only 30 hrs. Only th republicans brought mattresses.

[CatoRenasci]

What, ya' think FR is "a moderate-to-liberal voice for reasoned dialog with the more liberal elements of America's democratic Party?"

Nah, right-wing FR is, and probably always will be, with a strong libertarian seasoning and occasional DU disruptors.

[Howlin]

I would absolutely LOVE that. Not waiting for it though.

[Enterprise]

Appoint the meanest nastiest far right judges possible during a recess. You just KNOW that at some point, an issue dear to the RATS would come before some of these people and the RATS would get slam dunked. Nuclear option? Don't bother - just do it at recess.

[temijin]

hope springs eternal

[unsycophant]

Funny.