FRIST OFFICE CONFIRMS FILIBUSTER STILL ALIVE

HOUR 9 ^ | 5/24/05 | Watlaw

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Senator Frist;

"We have the constitutional option still on the table and I will take them to them floor. I will get this tradition restored. I will not compromise that principle period. I think the judicial principle is advice and consent...

[Kenny Bunkport]

He better come out and confirm this. John McStain and his little band of quislings has tried to yank the leadership of the Senate away from Frist. They need to have their ears boxed.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Senator/MAJORITY LEADER Frist needs to show up on television just like McCain and affirm that he is the Leader, not McCain. I'm glad to see him make some strong statements on the matter however.

[BigTexJim]

I hope Frist will use the constitutional option if they try to filibuster a constitutionalist Supreme Court nominee.

[LegendHasIt]

Well, after hearing Rush's take, then listening to Senator Frist on Hannity's radio show, (and then Sean talking to Pickering a little later)....

I fear my first instincts were correct. This is a huge loss for the GOP in general, and for conservative aspirations in particular.

Reading between the lines (he couldn't bring himself to say so directly), Frist believes that McCain & co. not only stabbed him in the back, they really ursurped his power.

The more I think about it, I'm now thinking that the mentally unbalanced McCain and his cohorts are planning to position themselves as "moderates", and draw off the more centrist Dems and "wishy-washy" Repubs into a "new" political party.... Perot revisited, except the target is not to draw conservatives but "fence sitters".

McCain: Drop the Mc, call true conservatives Abel, and you get a perfect picture of what has happened out of the Bible

[zerosix]

My belief is that the 48 Republican Senators need to have their own news conference and announce that they will never sign on to this agreement - Nuclear votes tomorrow.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The more I think about it, I'm now thinking that the mentally unbalanced McCain and his cohorts are planning to position themselves as "moderates", and draw off the more centrist Dems and "wishy-washy" Repubs into a "new" political party....

One must realize the following morning we were to have everything, all nominees as well as Supreme Court nominations. Today we have 3 nominees. Anyone with half a brain can surmise nothing more than we were back stabbed. Frist maintains this is not acceptable and will present everyone for a floor vote, regardless of this idiocy. Allow these people to react in whatever manner they so choose.

[youngtory]

That the exact problem we Conservative have here up north, we have Red Tories(CINOs) constantly undermining the Party. What the republican party needs to do is purge those CINOs because they are a bigger threat to the success of the party rather then the democratic party.

[Swanks]

Ya know Mort did have a good point. We tend to think only of the 7 Repub traitors as giving up the Nuke option. But not in terms of the 7 Rats, giving up the opposite, or the filibuster option.

They too want to remain the enlightened ones, courted by the press, etc. While Frist needs two to turn back to the Nuke option (plus the Veep), conversely the Rats may lose 1 or 2 of the 7 moderates.