Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Christopher Dodd urged the president to nominate a mainstream conservative for the Supreme Court at a news conference earlier this month. (Reuters Photo)
Posted on 07/17/2005 11:23:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Christopher Dodd urged the president to nominate a mainstream conservative for the Supreme Court at a news conference earlier this month. (Reuters Photo)
WASHINGTON -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy's ringing baritone carried over the nearly empty Senate chamber, sounding a warning on a familiar subject. The liberal lion stood behind his desk in the chamber's last row and promised an aggressive and detailed grilling of whomever President Bush selects for the Supreme Court.
.....Cooperation and comity aside, Kennedy has made it clear that he will not hesitate to lead an effort to block a nominee whom he feels will not protect civil rights and personal freedoms. He was the first Democratic senator to hold a press conference after O'Connor announced that she is stepping down, where he warned that a filibuster will be in order if Bush nominates someone who ''threatens to roll back the rights and freedoms of the American people."
''I'm not going to change what I've stood for for 40 years in the Senate," Kennedy said. ''I take it very seriously with regards to the Supreme Court, because at the end of the day, this is the place where the rights and liberties of the American people are best protected."
There is a part of Kennedy that would appear to relish a fight, should it come to that. Shortly after the press conference he held in the aftermath of O'Connor's announcement, when a reporter mentioned to Kennedy that he has already been through 18 Supreme Court nominations, Kennedy quickly corrected him with a smile.
''It's 19, actually," he said, his eyes lighting up. ''Don't forget, when [William H.] Rehnquist went to chief justice, I led the fight on that one, too."
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Apparently the author can't distinguish a hippo from a lion.
It is doubtful that Hippo could fight his way out of a submerged Oldsmobile these days. He does seem to relish making a fool out of himself in public though, he jumps at every opportunity.
When I was a teen,I thought the House and Senate to be full of old foaggies(?). Now ,at 71, it seems that many,or their kin, are still there.
You forget manslaughtering or maybe worse.
I know.
This drunken embarrassment sounds like, well, a drunken bum when he tries to talk. His staff types EVERYTHING he says on 100 brite paper, double-sized and triple-spaced. Not for nothing is he called the "Liberal Sealion of the Senate." Listen for yourself!
######Kennedy has made it clear that he will not hesitate to lead an effort to block a nominee whom he feels will not protect civil rights and personal freedoms######
Why is the most vociferous collectivist demagogue in the party of collectivism allowed to portray himself as a proponent of personal freedom?
Time and a whole lot of scotch sure have taken their toll
on him.
The Senate needs to be fumigated.
No kidding.
Bush was quite clear during the election of his desire to appoint true conservative justices to the Supreme Court.
When is this fat flubber up for re-election? Certainly the Repubs in Mass can find someone decent enough to run a good race against him.
I welcome Kennedy standing up an waging a fight because this time Kennedy isn't going to be knocked on his fat Boston arse which is why it ain't gonna happen.
It exists only on paper.
You know, I don't even have to read the article to know that the Democrats should lose this fight. Listen to what they are saying, that the President should nominate a "mainstream conservative." If the Senate was Democrat, do you think that the word "conservative" would ever be in that sentence? Would the Democrats give even that small amount of a concession to us, were they in power? Hell, no!
The Democrats are using this language because they know they have no power here. They can't stop the President or the Senate from confirming a real conservative, so they are using their mouthpieces in the MSM to beg for scraps. They hope that some Republicans will be too concerned about being painted as "big meanies" for pushing through a good nominee that they will knuckle under. And, sadly, they are probably right.
The fight now isn't with the Democrats. They have no power. The fight now is with the weak-kneed RINOs in the Senate. That's who our enemy is at this point...
Kennedy = Lying King
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