Posted on 05/24/2005 8:38:54 PM PDT by CHARLITE
You are an optimist.
correct. some people here are blind optimists I guess, they simply can't accept it.
I would love to know how the negotiations went. I want a tape recording. I want it now.
To the contrary, I am not, nor have I ever been, an eye doctor.
LOL.
LOL
When Frist invokes the Constitutional Option this pant-load is going to cry "betrayal".
Reid is despicable and those republican fools who played into his hands are no better. They weaken the Bush presidency in front of the whole world, and it's a dangerous neighborhood these days. Do they care? Heck, no.
"Although I am pleased that some of the President's qualified judicial nominees are finally getting the fair up or down vote they deserve, I am disappointed that not all nominees will be afforded that same courtesy. The understanding made by the group of fourteen made clear that judicial philosophy is not a legitimate reason to filibuster qualified judges.
"If Democrats should choose to continue their unprecedented use of the filibuster, we should immediately move to the constitutional option. Although I believe a vote on the constitutional option was certainly justified today, I am glad that it has not been taken off the table for future confirmation debates."
I maintain that this whole "deal" was nothing but a really, really clever trap.
And the Democrats strolled right into it.
Odd that I did not see that langauge in the text. The claim is ludicrous. Ideology is THE extraordinary circumstance. It is all that matters for SCOTUS. Biden said that tonight. He was right.
Shock and awe...the senate Republicans let me down again...it's like a broken record...the dems stick it to us whether we have the majority or not.
Sickening....I grow very weary of our current Republican party.
Please! When will everyone stop being so reactionary. Let the DU people be reactionary. This deal thing, how ever much we don't like it, may turn out alright. From where I'm standing, the advantage remains ours.
I'm sick as everyone (have been for a number of years) of the dems' lies and manipulations. We've all been dying for a knockout punch. In politics (as in courtrooms) there is almost never a silver bullet. The cliche that politicians are corrupt these days stems from dem corruption which corruption dems turn around and attribute to Republicans.
The folks less passionate about the good of our nation and less attentive than us tend to paint both parties with the same brush. Let's not start doing the same. Republicans, with a few exceptions, are honorable people playing a game at which the other player gains an advantage by cheating. Everyone by now should know this.
Truth is our weapon and it's served us well in recent elections. Hang back a little. Think things through a bit more before reacting. In the next few weeks we'll likely find things aren't nearly so dire as they seem right now; things might very well turn out much to OUR advantage.
The think is Frist didn't give his word and he made that clear today although reid tried to ignore it. Frist didn't sign anything nor was he privy to this so called agreement before it was signed by only 14 senators. 14 senators do not tell the other 86 how to vote or think. Frist has every right not to honor the agreement not having signed it or given his word.
He spelled out his word several times today. The nuclear option is still on the table, and he spelled it out as soon as Reid bloviated about it being dead this morning.
He will call for all nominees up for cloture vote, he called the first one today against the wishes of Reid who said that they should wait and get on with the business of the senate. The Dems have not won but the 7 RINOS have lost, bigtime.
In the next few weeks we'll likely find things aren't nearly so dire as they seem right now;
33 posted on 05/24/2005 9:14:36 PM PDT by fire and forget
You are right about that. They are worse.
As time goes by, you will see just how bad the deal was.
We'll see soon enough. You won't be offended if I hope you're wrong.
"So make no mistake, the Constitutional Option remains on the table. If the minority again acts in bad faith--if they resume their campaign of mindless judicial obstruction--I will NOT hesitate to call it to a vote.
"Not for a second."
AT LEAST two of the Republican signatories to "the compromise" will bolt on that deal the moment the rats act "in bad faith". And now that those "moderate Republicans" have the cover they need to be righteously indignant, they can publicly demean the "bad faith" Democrats and support the rules change. The Democrats are trapped and there is no way out for them.
It's a beautiful thing.
Don't doubt for a minute they'll do just that. The dems know it. They have an empty deal that will only work against them. Reid's and others' bluster is what it is. Bluster.
That will not happen. Not over an appellate nominee, unless they again go down serially. But none of that really matters much. What this does is box the twin idiots in over a SCOTUS nominee, at the margins. That is what the Dems really gained. Unless of course, the twin idiots have no honor.
I should add that the twin idiots could have just interred the filibuster right now. They chose not to. How clever of them.
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