Posted on 11/15/2004 8:54:19 PM PST by KMC1
He'll pass him through. Frist is as ball-less as Lott was/is.
Dole, Lott, Frist, is it just me or do we have a perpetual invisible Senate leadership presence? Eveyone knew where Daschle wanted to go. Who has any idea where Frist wants to go? What drives him? What are his main goals. Name one. I dare you!
Frist, "Aaaaaaaah, I doknow... Arlen may be selected and he may not. I may back him but I'm not convinced. I haven't heard what I neaded to hear, but I may. I don't have my head up my kiester now, but it's early."
Is there not one Republican spine in the Senate that could wrestle control from Frist, and do something with the opportunities presented?
Isn't it scarey that the spineless Frist is the majority leader of the Senate? If this spineless jellyfish is the bull moose of the Senate, my God what the underlings must be like. Jello?
Ron, if these assholes in the Senate were allowed to wear togas, I'll bet they would!..........FRegards
Screw Specter and screw Hewitt.
It is not important to me whether Specter is the chairman or not. It is important that Bush's nominees are confirmed. Some people believe that Specter has put himself in a position where he cannot be chaiman unless he now pledges to support all of Bush's nominees through committee AND gets them a vote on the floor. This means Specter would have to agree to support a move to eliminate the 60 vote rule on judicial nominees, the so-called nuclear option.
I beleive this is what Frist may be angling for, and if it is so, then I think it is a good move on his part.
Makes for a great idea for a graphic, no? Heh heh heh...
You're right Gonza. There's a lot of fiddling going on in D.C. these days.
Ken and John were astounded to find that the Republicans wouldn't even help the Republican running against Bacca. Yes, it is the 'Patomac Two-Step'. Good call.
You mark my word. We are about to see a wholesale reshuffle at the White House. When the dust settles, the faces will have changed, but I swear there won't be a spec of change in the overall tone of things.
Condoleza, whom I like and others have idolized to the point of destraction, is going to become more visible. You watch what happens at state. I'm afraid it's going to be quite the disappointment to many.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I doubt it. We shall see.
If Bush's new Justice Department nominee is any indication, we're in for some rough road ahead. That dunce studied in China and Mexico. Lordy.
It seems that Specter's big-mouth and left-wing extremism betrays his pattern of liberal lobbying...When the "moderate" is using his bully-pulpit to stab the President in the back and impugn well-qualified judicial candidates, it wouldn't seem prudent to take him at his word when he speaks with a forked tongue.
We are going to see a MAJOR breakthrough FOR America and the GOP this week!
Leader Frist is going to deliver and take his place in these historic times...
It's unfortunate for hugh hewitt that he sold out, but fortunately, saner minds are prevailing and acting more prudently IMO...
State is a very tough nut to crack. It's so entrenched that it would be almost impossible to rectify, without a clean sweep of all career diplomats.
While that sounds like a great idea, then you're left with a staff that is completely novice, unable to function.
I'm not sure what the solution is. A tough-love Secretary would be nice, but there would be only so much they could do. And then the lefties would come in and re-infest the department. It's an ugly problem.
This is what I am hoping for. If they can get him to agree to that, we might have a deal.
Frist is not Lott. He has done a much better job than he gets credit for.
They hated Dole, despised Lott, and now Frist stands in the way of their perfect constitutional utopia. The right fringe is laying in wait for its moment to join with the liberal media and take down another Republican who can't walk on water. Then how they will moan and weep when the replacement Republican turns out to be equally human. Thereby completing the cycle and setting the stage for more political onanism
An endless circle jerk of obsessive compulsive Republican purging as they pat each other on the back with sticky hands.
Powell/Schwarzenegger 08
Wow, quite a warped world you inhabit.
I'm am guite impressed by what passes for 'fringe right' these days.
If I want a judge who rules by the Constiution and not an activist from the bench, I'm fringe right. If I want a senator with backbone who won't let a minority leader like Daschle dictate Senate policy, I'm fringe right. If I dispise spineless leadership the likes of which Dole, Lott and Frist exmplify, I'm fringe right.
No, what you term as fringe right, is middle-road mainstream American values. I'm not asking for the moon here. I'm simply asking that our leaders do what leaders are supposed to do. They should be well grounded in main stream values, and they should promote policies and procedures that see those values implemented into the daily Senate process.
We have the majority. It's high time we acted like it.
The left doesn't hesitate to seek it's goals. Neither should main-stream Americans.
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