Lines Drawn for 30-Hour Debate (Senate Judicial Confirmations)

Roll Call ^ | November 6, 2003 | Paul Kane

[Starboard]

Let's get ready to rumble....

[goldstategop]

If the Democrats want a filibuster make em hold a real one and force em to bring in the cots. For blocking our judges a lot of Rat legislation can be left to die on the vine by Thanksgiving. We'll see if they blink before then.

[section9]

Rumble my ass. Frist has put a thirty hour time limit on this debate.

This is nothing new.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[thiscouldbemoreconfusing]

They’re even holding out the option of going into the wee hours of the morning Friday if their troops are up for it.

It is about time!

[princess leah]

GOOD! If the Dems are mad, then push their buttons and really send them over the edge...Let's show America that the democratic party sabotages its own citizens for POLITICAL manipulation! BRING IT ON!

[thiscouldbemoreconfusing]

The way to get the d's to leave is read two things over and over and over, the 1611 King James Version of the Bible and the entire US Constitution and Declaration of Independence, but first pass a rule that there will be no reading of the d's bible and constitution, the Karl Mark Communist manefesto.

[MamaLucci]

IF their troops are up for it...

That's a big "if".

[KantianBurke]

exactly. same sh^&* different day. No one will get appointed and then its back to business as usual.

[Sgt_Schultze]

It would help if the Republicans used the inevitable placards during the last prime-time slot to show the white male faces of the "democrat approved" judges, versus the brown and female faces of those the dems most resist.

[abnegation]

I don't know, Ted Kennedy going 30 hours without booze will kill him.

[Starboard]

This is nothing new.

May not be new, but its the first all-nighter in over a decade and is certainly a "shot across the bow."

[mrsmith]

But it'll satisfy the people who want the Senate to force more public attention on the Dems' filibuster.

But otherwise it is pointless.

Only forcing a rules change would lead to a real filibuster that would end the Dems' filibuster and get Senate consideration of the judges.

[babaloo]

An added plus is to get hours of sound bites of Dems being obstructionists for use in the 2004 elections.

[MHGinTN]

Nothing says he can't have a drink while on the Senate floor ... but I still want the socialist pig to have to stand up and verbalize, along with KKK Byrd, and Hatellary Rodhamster Clinton. Maybe Tom'dungheap'Harkin can give one of his sermons, like the one he delivered at the Wellstone memorial. Oh my, this has tremendous comic potential! Must buy microwave popcorn today!

[Starboard]

Good point.

[thucydides]

This is just the opener. The plan will be to throw in these lengthy debates from time to time to raise the media coverage, complete with photos of women, blacks, and hispanics being filibustered by Senate democrats. As we get closer to the 2004 elections, it will escalate until either the Senate democrats collapse in a blaze of ignominy, or they have completely angered their core constituencies. I remember when they were trying to "Bork" Clarence Thomas: they thought it was great politics, but then the first polls started coming in showing that blacks completely supported Thomas, and democrats hastily pulled the plug on the smear - hearings.

[MHGinTN]

They are stalling until there is just a smidge less than a year left, for recess appointments to remain well through the 2004 elections. Strategery

[familyofman]

This all seems a bit silly - debate with a 30 hour time limit, pre-announced. This will accomplish nothing.
Have they passed all the appropriation bills yet - I think there are still a few outstanding & the new fiscal year has already started.
Even c-span junkies will probably snooze during this. I don't think they even have to stay on message - they could read bedtime stories for all we know.

[MarkT]

Finally BUT the action should begin Friday afternoon and go over into the weekend - if the political whores in DC want to demonstrate to the electorate that they are serious, they must show they are willing to forego tee times and the "personal time" usually spent jawboning lobbyists and collecting re-election donations. At least, it is a start.

[deport]

I don't know, Ted Kennedy going 30 hours without booze will kill him.

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Heck Teddy may not even be there..... Sounds like the Pubs want to try to schedule some orators to fill a thirty hours span.... That shouldn't be that hard for them to do....