Posted on 11/19/2002 2:11:01 AM PST by Neets
President Bush called wavering lawmakers Monday in hopes of thwarting a Democratic drive to force changes in the homeland security bill, but he lost the support of the senator who vied with him for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination.~~~~ John McShame
A federal court ruling ensures that the Justice Department can take full advantage of broad new surveillance powers to track suspected spies and terrorists, Attorney General John Ashcroft says.
Iraq continued firing at U.S. and British patrol planes Monday, and an Iraqi warplane penetrated an area in southern Iraq that is off-limits to the Iraqi air force.
MSNBC executives, under pressure from corporate owner General Electric to improve ratings, are likely to cancel "Donahue" by year's end, according to published reports
Actor James Coburn dies at 74.
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail! [President Bush]
The Homeland Security Bill passed, Judge Shedd was accepted as the President's nominee to the U. S. Court of Appeals, and I think the terrorism insurance bill passed, too. YAHOO!!!
Back to the kitchen for a little while. Time to check on the cakes.
/john
You know who you are.
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I don't have any idea about the votes on Pickering and Owens. Bush may just wait til after the first of the year. Because Thurmond submitted Shedd's name, it was symbolically important to get him approved before this session ended since Strom won't be back.
But the cakes look good.
/john
That's semi-professional advice, John. Our company doesn't do disaster restoration but we hear talk about it at conventions and such.
I posted a note or two earlier that especially in lame duck sessions the side with the votes wants to vote. And the side without the votes wants to debate. The debating side needs to impress its supporters that it did all it could.
There was the 52 to 47 vote on the admendments. That was symbolic. But the important thing to remember that the real vote was on cloture. That was 65 to 29. That is a very very very important ratio.
That shows that daschle does not have 40 votes to fillibuster in 2003. It looks like he has perhaps 32 or maybe 33 with the incomming senators. The important vote in the senate is always cloture. You know what is going to happen when the cloture vote is taken. The rest is just cover your butt. The final was 90 to 9.
There was talk that to get the votes Lott had to promise to bring up the 7 added issues in the next congress. That is a bone to throw to the Democrats so they can explain their fold on homeland security. They could not get ahold of hastert. Uhhhh HMmmmm But lott promised to ask him to bring them up in the house... Un huh.
This was the democrats folding becuase they did not have the votes. They don't have 40 votes in the lame duck. They will not have them in the next senate.
What that means is that 10 to 15 Democratic Senators went along with Daschle out of party loyalty to win an election. That blew up in their faces. They are not likely to follow Daschle down the road again.
This next Senate looks more and more like it is every crat for himself.
The options in the Iraq situation are two. We got to war and after it is over oil drops to $17 a barrel. The other option is we don't go to war and oil drops ot $17 a barrel. The productivity is way up, intererst rates are low, and after the Iraq we are slated for a 1994-1995 economy.
Unless somehting really terrible happens 2004 looks like a Bush andslide, 58 or 59 senate seats, and 233 house members.... and a supreme court where Thomas and Scalia are the liberal ones.
That old horse-stall box-fan has helped me a lot in the last couple of weeks. I'm not going to throw it away just because it's ugly. ;>)
/john
I'm due one, according to my reading of the regulations. They took away my 5 level because it was out of date, and kept me from getting Ssgt. New trainees have to have 15 months as a 5 level to be eligible (USAFR) for Staff. REtrainees (which I am) only require 9 months of ojt and their 5 level for Staff. Which I have when I pass the next test.
I'll be bringing the correct AFRs to everyone's attention next drill. When the commander is in a good mood, and happy with me. I'm remembering how to play the game.
/john
The Nays were Akaka (D-HI), Byrd (D-WV), Feingold (D-WI), Hollings (D-SC), Inouye (D-HI), Jeffords (I-VT), Kennedy (D-MA), Levin (D-MI), Sarbanes (D-MD).
Tommy didn't even have the courage of his convictions!
Wonder of wonders, one of those little wooden mouse traps caught him and then I tossed him, trap and all, into a pail of water and capsized his little "raft" until he quit moving.
Meanwhile, my wife was in the other room praying for him to die quickly.
By the way, these two mice I caught today are very tiny brown mice. Probably field mice, I guess.
All of this information is from dealing with mice in the garage. We don't have problems with mice in the house. We have 5 1/2 indoor cats. ;>)
/john
We finally learned (after getting a flying squirrel in the attic) that moth balls in the attic help keep such critters out ..... if you can stand the smell. Our kids hated it ...... it nearly drove them out of the house, too ...... :-)
So we keep the feeders full in the attic, and we don't have a problem. There have been a couple of houses around here that burned down because of squirrels in the attic chewing on wires. We prefer to avoid that.
/john
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