***THREAD 2: UPDATED FR HELP REQUESTED for Senate Judiciary Filibuster next Wed/Thurs.!!***

11/10/03 | Diotima

[maica]

C-SPAN is showing the press briefing of the R Senators now during the recess of the Senate, so at least it is being recorded somewhere!

[buffyt]

Thanks for all the updates!

[pulaskibush]

Good Eye!

I copied and pasted that info from the contact list from the Thread. The list has an R beside Pryor's name. I didn't notice.

To others who may not know, Mark Pryor of AR is a (D) and has voted against giving nominees a chance along with AR Sen. Blanche Lincoln.

[hatfieldmccoy]

What in the Bloddy Hell is this Republican circle jerk supposed to accomplish. The filibuster should be the Democrats trying to stop a floor vote on the judges. The limp spine Republican leadership has cooked up this weak kneed PR event to avoid actually taking serious action. They are filibustering their own initiative. It's the Twilight Zone. And to add insult to injury we got the go* *amn freeper nation cheerleading. This is Bill Frist and the girls kissing Donkey butt.

[GotDangGenius]

Hatch offers Democrats deal on stalled judges.

Posted by GotDangGenius to .cnI redruM
On News/Activism 10/28/2003 6:49 AM PST #25 of 63

I am a state legislator in Montana, and unless I am unaware of an intricacy of the Senate rules that would prevent such a thing, I would be pressing Frist to do one thing on this mess-

Schedule each and every judicial nominee for a vote on the floor and debate, and make it known that the Senate will do no other business whatsoever until those nominees are brought to a vote of the full Senate.

In other words- schedule a date future- so every one knows what is coming, and that's it.

Next, hit the PR side of it -- the Dems are acting like little kids, and this is inappropriate behavior for a US Senator. "Let's get this straight about how childish and unbecoming of a US Senator this nonesense is- Just because in 1997, the Senate then refused to approve a Clinton nominee, some Senators are behaving like children. These Senators need to behave like adults and perform their responsibilities- just because they don't want to vote on judicial nominees and have that on their record.

We are now witnessing Senators that are afraid to vote and go on the record?

Hammer them over and over and over again in the press as behaving like two year olds, and when it comes to the scheduled time for Frist to bring this to a vote, the theme is that this is a disagreement between adults and children in the Senate and that "Mr. Levin and Sen. Schumer, et al are in obvious need of being reminded that is not 1997 anymore.

You gotta pick your fights and this is one that needs to be settled- the child v adult theme, the afraid to vote theme, and the... ahem... it's not 1997 dear friends on the left, are decent starts