Posted on 11/03/2004 7:37:13 AM PST by crushkerry
Black shorts for the guys? Well, in summertime - it must get hot in there. And nike's with white socks - yea, gotta wear sneaks. Maybe put their last names (nicknames?) on the back of their robes. I don't think they should be allowed to put product logos on their robes, though. Gotta draw a line somewhere.
I'm going out right now to get me some Air Scalias
We need to rewrite the Senate rules at the beginning of the next Congress in January and remove the filibuster option for judicial appointment votes, they are voted after being passed out of the Judiciary committee.
This is the only way to get a Conservative justice ever appointed again.
I know it's not a pick-up, but it is one of two that CNN hasn't called yet.
We had 36 not up for election
We had 12 incumbents win. (AL, AK*, AZ, ID, IA, KY, KS, MO, NH, OH, PA, UT.)
We won 6 open seats (FL*, GA, LA, NC, OK, SC)
We had 1 challenger defeat an incumbent (SD)
36+12+6+1=55
* - AK and FL haven't been called yet.
Sheesh, what a load.
"Other possibilities include Robert Byrd" ROFLOLTIME!
Collins ,Snowe, Voinovich and the rest voted against conservative justices because their voters wanted them to, They will continue to do so.
If you want to contribute some "analysis" of judicial nominations in the Senate, see what Senators up for election next time have to please a conservative electorate and which ones have to please a liberal electorate.
Hopefuly we'll see a rules change next year preventing filibustering of nominees. Otherwise it will remain a political football.
Holy crap. I was wrong. Will UPdate. Thanks.
You're right, though if Bush's large margin can be repeated in LA by the next GOP Presidential candidate in 2008 then a good GOP Senate candidate should have a chance to pull a Vitter over Landrieu.
But as to breaking Democrat fillibusters over judges, again, I think she will have no fear of voting her true left-wing stripes until at least 2007 when she knows she will have to amass some conservative votes to once again fool the people of Louisiana.
Frist measured the Senate weeks ago and concluded he could break most filibusters with 55 seats, and all filibusters with 56 seats. The republicans now have a filibuster proof majority.
UPDATE - DUE TO A LACK OF MATH SKILLS AND VERY LITTLE SLEEP I WAS INCORRECT IN MY COUNT. I HAD KNOWLES WINNING AK, AND IT LOOKS LIKE MURKOWSKI WILL WIN. THUS, I WAS NOT CORRECT IN ALL SENATE PREDICTIONS, AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT OUR ADVANTAGE IS +4 AND WE ONLY NEED TO CONVERT 5 DEMS TO BREAK A FILIBUSTER. SORRY, BUT IT'S A GOOD ERROR TO MAKE. THE MATH HAS BEEN CORRECTED IN THE ARTICLE, BUT YES, THE ORIGINAL COUNT WAS WRONG.
I'm not sure Lincoln Chaffee can be counted on in all things Republican in the Senate....
On judicial nominees he's always voted to break the filibuster.
The trick will be breaking the FIRST filibuster. After we can show it can be done, there will be less resistance for the others.
And one of the first things Bush should do to start a second term is a VERY public PR campaign that the Senate is w-a-y behind on filling positions on the bench and he has an entire slate of them ready to go including Estrada and all the appeals court nominees that were blocked last time.
Be agrressive, Bush! The country has spoken so NOW is the time to use the bully pulpit and don't be a wuss about it.
I'm afraid that if we are depending on Mary Landrau, we are in big trouble.
I know that under current "rules" Arlen becomes head of the judiciary committee. Can anything be done to change that?
I'm not sure Bush will "re-nominate" Estrada...too bad.
Heh. Robert Byrd was actually considered as a possible Supreme Court nominee by Richard Nixon.
That's only an intraparty rule. They can change it if they wish, just like the House did in 1994. Senate's a difft. animal though. They don't like change.
I'm not so sure about that. At the very least, the President can tell Specter how cows eat cabbage, so he won't be willing to obstruct Bush's nominees.
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