Posted on 05/05/2011 1:48:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
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This is a perfect illustration of why a one party system just does not work.
Yup, Thune surprised me too.
Is anyone actually surprised by this? I mean *really*?
The gop has shown itself time after time after time to be a party of nicely-coiffed girly men. They’re worse than useless. If conservatives are pinning hopes for change on this bunch, we will be very sadly disappointed.
BS! You can bet the Senate Democrats would abandon any "compromise" or "agreement" if a Republican President would have appointed an attorney from National Right to Life or American Life League ect to the bench.
Couldn't agree more. This vote is a tragedy.
I have had it up to my back teeth with Republican ‘collegiality’. When are these idiots EVER going to draw a line in the sand and FIGHT? This nomination could have been stopped dead in its tracks. The tools were there.
But, no ... they had to play nicey-nicey, and are now cleaning tire tracks off their suits .... AGAIN.
They voted for him before they voted against him.
Actually, we do need some of these people for some votes (I’m thinking about those from liberal states); I’m not saying that we can’t do any better than the RINO Sisters in Maine, or or Kirk in IL (sadly, Scott Brown is as good as we’ll get in MA), but those RINOs are still better than a Democrat would be, and we can’t expect to run a Jim DeMint-type in ME or IL and win, so we need to look for moderate-to-conservative types who will still disappoint us once in a while but who could actually defeat not only the RINO in the primary but also the RAT in the general.
However, it makes no sense to have Senators from conservative states such as GA (the pro-abort Isakson and the pro-life Chambliss), AK (the pro-abort Murkowski), AZ (the generally pro-life McCain), SD (the pro-life Thune), TN (the pro-life Alexander) and SC (the pro-life Graham) voting to allow a radical liberal with ties to Planned Parenthood be given a lifetime federal judicial appointment in a district in heavily Catholic RI. Do you know what each of these Senators have in common? Their Senate seats aren’t up until 2014 or 2016. Cowards all.
” W/O reading the article I knew Graham and McCain would be on the list of 11. “
I knew 5 would. Add Brown, Snowe & Collins.
Brown has sure turned out to be a real stinker. Unfortunately, just as with the others he’ll likely never be punished by his constituency because they’re liberal enough to like what he’s doing. Same goes for Snowe, Collins, Graham & McCain.
I think the one thing that ticked me off more than anything was McCain saying McConnell didn't rise to extraordinary circumstances in filibustering him. I consider that statement an out and out lie, if he didn't warrant filibustering no one ever will.
Like you I think we have to fight these type nominees. Judges like McConnell could be there for decades advancing the liberal leftist cause.
I grew up in Newton, Mass. I’m 57. No conservative has been elected there since I was born. When Brown won, a bunch of people got real giddy here. Not I. I knew they merely elected a liberal instead of a Marxist. Not much difference ;-)
I agree. I live in Memphis, and it makes me sick. I’ve sent Mr. Alexander an email voicing my disgust. I’m sure he won’t read it, or care if he does, but at least I’ve made my opinion known somehow. We all need to wake the hell up!
‘I live in Memphis,...’
OUCH! You have my sympathies...
If they don’t read bills I strongly suspect they don’t read constituent letters either. I suspect his aids read enough to decide which boilerplate response to pick. You will eventually get a response but it won’t say anything substantive.
I thought Thune was a good guy?
It never does....I’ve written several, and made several calls and I always feel like the response is coming from a bad actor at an audition. Don’t even get me started on the auto-response emails.
Yep. As soon as I saw the headline I knew she would be one of the eleven.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is a pansy; he reminds me of barney frank.
Pat Robertson thought the world of thune, i wonder what he thinks now?
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