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Senate to play its own `Survivor' with all-night talkathon on judges
Associated Press ^
| 11-11-03
Posted on 11/11/2003 1:16:53 PM PST by Brian S
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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It's a grudge that's been building for two years.
In a legislative version of "Survivor," Republicans and Democrats will square off Wednesday in an all-night Senate talkathon on who's to blame for some of President Bush's political nominees not making it to the federal appeals bench.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: judicialnominees; talkathon
What a farce! The two-party cabal having a "group-grope".
Dust off your pom-poms groupies and start practicing your "slogans"... :/
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:16:54 PM PST
by
Brian S
To: Brian S
What a farce! The two-party cabal having a "group-grope". I agree. It's a farce... and actually, pathetic... I'd be ashamed to be these people. They produce NOTHING for the economy. Then again, they are a DRAIN on the economy. I'd cut their salary to $1.00 (one dollar), with zero benefits, and then ask them how they want to "serve" the American people. Hypocrites all... well most.
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:23:30 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
To: Brian S
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:24:29 PM PST
by
snopercod
(Come beloved and fill the cup that clears today of past regrets and future fears...)
To: Brian S
This is nothing like the 74 hour DEMOCRAT filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:26:32 PM PST
by
bobjam
To: Brian S
The record for the longest individual speech goes to South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Bunch of girly men. The senate used to have REAL senators.....
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:28:04 PM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: Brian S
"All of this probably matters to 500 people: 100 senators, their staffers, and the 50 reporters who cover us, and no one else," joked Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. I assume that everyone has emailed Chuck regarding this.
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:29:15 PM PST
by
Grit
(No federal judicial nominee has been filibustered by a Senate minority in U.S.history)
To: Brian S
What Republicans. What losers. What whimps. Thirty hours.
What if the US Army goig into Iraq had said: "We'll fight for 30 hours and then go home"?
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:37:04 PM PST
by
samtheman
To: Brian S
When they decide to have a "real" fillibuster (i.e., no one leaves until someone quits), I'm not interested.
I admire Senator Santorum and I hope that they have a few tricks up their sleeves, but this "planned" filibuster is a joke. Thirty hours? PPPPUUUUHHHHLLEEEEAAASSSEEEE! When I was finishing my MBA (and raising 2 kids [1 an infant], working fulltime, etc.), I regularly would stay up for 2 or three days. And I didn't have 40 of my "homies" to give me a break every once and a while.
I do appreciate that they are trying to get the mainstream media to actually pay attention to the issue because the media, while cover the story regularly, uses inaccurate terminology, which, of course, favors the liberal, demoCREEP, hate-America Senators (Hitlery, Scumer, Dasshole, etc.). Disgustingly, the coverage has always made off like these demoCREEPs are doing something noble, rather than shredding the Constitution. The news pukes (with the notable and frequent exception of FOX NEWS) always seems to classify or convey that these nominated judges are "extreme" or "right-wing Judge so-and-so". It is totally BS.
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:38:19 PM PST
by
mattdono
(Big Arnie: "Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags.")
To: Cobra64
I want to see a 3:00am quarum call.
To: The_Victor
So who's going to watch C-SPAN and make sure their actually talking?
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:40:35 PM PST
by
Pest
To: Brian S
"All of this probably matters to 500 people: 100 senators, their staffers, and the 50 reporters who cover us, and no one else," joked Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.LOL, Schemer's such a lying blowhard. He knows full well that his party's borking of Charles Pickering played a major role in the GOP's victory in the Mississippi gubernatorial race. And Southerners are not going to have forgotten about Pickering by next November, either.
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:47:22 PM PST
by
Timesink
To: Kozak; Brian S
The record for the longest individual speech goes to South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As a DEMOCRAT, I might add.
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:51:20 PM PST
by
Timesink
To: Brian S
It's a shame we have to wait until next year to vote them off the island.
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posted on
11/11/2003 2:18:30 PM PST
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(If everything you experienced, believed, lived was a lie, would you want to know the truth?)
To: Brian S
Circle-jerk?
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posted on
11/11/2003 3:02:35 PM PST
by
Freakazoid
(Freaking zoids since 1998.)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: Brian S
Because Senate rules require agreement from both sides to quickly confirm a nominee QUICKLY???
The dimwit who wrote this article doesn't know enough grammar not to split an infinitive, let alone know the definition of "quickly."
To: Callimachus
Obviously, you have a very short-sighted view of what is going on in Iraq.
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