Posted on 03/08/2003 9:07:44 AM PST by TLBSHOW
Commentary: The Secret Plan To Thwart Bush
Washington is buzzing about a recent Robert Novak column that exposed the secret plan developed by Ted Kennedy to block all of President Bush's appellate court nominees.
The current controversy centers around Miguel Estrada, who is being filibustered to death by Senate liberals. (Editor's note: Find out how you can help by clicking here.)
But the plan is much broader and goes back to a secret meeting that took place on January 30th in the office of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. At that meeting Daschle, Kennedy and six other Judiciary Committee Democrats endorsed a strategy that will result in filibusters against any conservative nominee.
How serious is the situation? George Will asserted on Friday that if allowed to succeed, this tactic would effectively amend the Constitution by requiring a supermajority to approve judicial nominations. It would put Kennedy, Daschle and Clinton in charge of judges, instead of President Bush.
If Iraq will determine the success of the Bush presidency in foreign affairs, the fight over the federal judiciary in the Senate will determine the success of the Bush presidency domestically. The President and Senate Republican leaders cannot afford to "blink" on this one.
George Will put it more starkly on Friday when he wrote, "And if the president does not wage a fierce, protracted and very public fight for his nominee, he will display insufficient seriousness about the oath he swore to defend the Constitution."
Why Are Judges Important?
The President's ability to appoint conservative judges is important because liberal activists are exercising raw political power to remake America in their image by judicial fiat.
Last week, in fact, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected attempts by the Administration to reconsider the decision banning the Pledge of Allegiance. In a very rare moment, the United States Senate voted unanimously to condemn that ruling.
Yet, nine Democrat senators who live in states under the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals are supporting the filibuster against Miguel Estrada!
This is NOT true. A Constitutional amendment does NOT happen in this way or this situation.
Sorry, but thanks for playing.
When the Dumocraps find a tactic that ties up the President's agenda they use it continually so that THEY can show nothing is being done. "It's not our fault he chose Estrada, but we oppose him." So it will go with all of the nominees.
The answer is using the tactics against them.
You want to fillibuster, then move in the cots and warm up the coffee, let's see who has balls in this fight.
Oh wait, we're talking Senate Republicans.
When we go in and take Saddam and OBL and crush all the terrorist cells Clinton sat on his ass allowing while making domestic fluffy enviro leftist, fake caring of black people and the economy look good (with the dot.comers (and INVENTION? of the internet) allowing him in that era to have a strong-looking economy)
Clinton sat on his ass getting blow jobs in the oval office selling us out to China- and this President is stuck cleaning it all up and they dare block his every move-they will pay when they are all voted out and can't count pregnant chads and falsely claim black people were turned away from polls, to try to steal an election- sending in fake Jesse Jackson.
Clinton was making fluffy promises/deals w/ N. Korea, screwing us in the long run all awhile jacking off and attacking American militias and creating black churches being burnt and having innocent Elian taken at gun point, and school shootings to take our guns. And then he had the freaking audacity to invite red china to OUR WH and hang their commie flag and force our marines to stand attention to communisim and toast with champagne! Muchless his selling off the Lincoln bedroom to pay all of his rapist, legal expenses becaue he lied and it depends on the definition of IT or IS!
So now we try to clean up his white trash garbage and foreign relation atrocities while he sat in his underwear getting blown and his leftists commie demokratic party dares to stop us? He blew up and aspirin factory and bombed the Chinese Embassy and then blamed bad blueprinting and our military? (all to cover his selling us out TO China) And or China was going to re nig on one of the secrets echanges and not fill he and Hitlery's swiss acct. so he blew up their embassy like the dixie mob scum he is.
And then when we are at the bring of two theaters of serious war he does a freaking talk show and he and Carter bash the President. Hitlery only told off Sheen as she is running in 06 and is a lying,evil,corrupt witch that will stop at nothing to be President with Bill as the U.N. Koffi blow job leader.
These leftists have audacity and they are being exposed-more every second until then we will pay with events like 9/11. What did Clinton do when the towers were bombed, he went and bombed aspirin factories and then tapped our oil reserves so to not piss off Americans with high gas prices.What did he do when the U.S.S. Cole was attacked?NOTHING! I have had it with these people.
No, he is very wrong.
When it comes to pouty Gray Bauer I won't trust much of anything he says. Way back when he ran for President. He got all pissed off when he didn't win and endorsed pro abortinist John McCain. Sorry but Gary Bauer was wrong then and wrong now. He really needs to understand what is required for a Constitutional amendment and not resort to insane scare tactics for attention.
A wonderful tactic... :)
Besides killing dem senators in states with rep govs can anyone think of what we can do to help(phone calls don't seem to help, I'm in Ca)
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