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Senate GOP set to go 'nuclear' over judges
Cox news service via the Times Argus ^
| 11/28/04
| Chuck Lindell
Posted on 11/28/2004 2:36:14 PM PST by NeoCaveman
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Lots of interesting stuff here. Including the possibility that Specter is on board for this. I bet that was the quid pro quo for the chairmanship.
But I'm not breaking out the champagne quite yet
To: dubyaismypresident
Thermonuclear would be better.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:37:45 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Dan Rather's got to go!)
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:38:37 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
("I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it," -- VP Cheney)
To: dubyaismypresident
To: dubyaismypresident
I'll celebrate this in the past tense only. I'll believe it when Brit smacks Juan in the face with it.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:40:56 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
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To: TonyRo76
Mitch McConnell said it takes 67 votes to change a rule on Cal Thomas last night.
To: dubyaismypresident
I think you might be on to something. Snarlin' Arlen is all smiles lately, and that means that even for a RINO like him, he knows which side his bread is buttered on. He could certainly go across the aisle ala 'Jumpin Jerk Jeffords', but that isn't how he wants to end his political career.
Arlen wants a nice write up in the history books and if he has to turn right after many decades of leaning left, he'll do it. Politics makes strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, and Arlen is as strange as they come.
But he is a shrewd politician, and I think he would be on board for putting an end to filibustering shenanigans by the 'Rats, because the more the MINORITY party in the Senate tries to screw around with judicial nominations, the more it reflects badly on Specter, because he doesn't want ANYBODY to ever mutter something like "even Orin Hatch ran a better committee than Specter", so when it comes time to nuke the Senate 'Rats, I predict Senator Specter will be in the bombardier's bubble, lining up the targets, and calling out "BOMB'S AWAY!"...
Does my heart good to picture that. Imagine. Arlen Specter coming to his senses even at this late date.
Heh.
To: dubyaismypresident
I'd still love to see the letter they made Specter sign.....
To: dubyaismypresident
Yada, yada, yada... I believe it when I see it. Talk is cheap.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:46:13 PM PST
by
Babsig
(I regret that my first ever vote was for Specter for Senator in 1986.)
To: dubyaismypresident
We already have the DUmmies crying.And they don't understand the difference between a rule and the Constitution.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:47:22 PM PST
by
AndrewC
(New Senate rule -- Must vote on all Presidential appointments period certain.)
To: OwnershipSociety
This is what I voted for! Pack the court, pack the court,
Come on everybody, repeat after me and sing along
Pack the court, pack the court here we go
Pack the court
repeat until tired or bored /rant
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:48:52 PM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(I got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELLS!)
To: TonyRo76
Well it's about freakin' time! Enough of this gentility hoo-haw...if the DemocratsMarxists on Capitol Hill want a gang-fight, let's give it to them, and make 'em sorry they asked! Exactly. The Dems already declared war.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:49:34 PM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: dubyaismypresident
To: K4Harty
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:50:21 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
("Nature abhors a moron."-H.L. Mencken)
To: dubyaismypresident
You know, I'm not scared about Democrat "retaliation." First of all, they'd be irrelevant. Secondly, the GOP never filibustered judicial nominations, so if the Rats regain the Senate and Presidency, so what if they used the nuclear option? They'd never have to use it in the first place.
The press is whining for the Rats, so it must mean we're getting somewhere.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:51:01 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: dubyaismypresident
Senate GOP set to go 'nuclear' over judges.........
It's about time. Too bad tiny Tom won't be there to have his snout rubbed in the dirt.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:51:24 PM PST
by
dennisw
(G_D: Against Amelek for all generations)
To: dubyaismypresident
"We're going to use every tool we possibly can," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who also unveiled a kinder, gentler phrase for the potential rules change: the "constitutional option." If they use every tool they possibly can, President Bush needs to do some appointments during the Congressional Break period.
Clinton set the precedent for that. We need to do it too to save time and energy.
"Constitutional option" ...what the heck is that? Oh yea, to Democrats using the Constitution is just an option. Come on Frist, lead with the Constitution...
Four years isn't that long, we need to expedite lots of things.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:53:14 PM PST
by
Syncro
To: Dog Gone
The press is whining for the Rats, so it must mean we're getting somewhere. Music to my ears is a whining RAT. boo hoo hoo...conservative judges...boo hoo hoo...
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:53:14 PM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(I got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELLS!)
To: dubyaismypresident
Yeah, it's call winning. NOTE to Dimocrats: we won, we govern, get use to it.
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posted on
11/28/2004 2:55:00 PM PST
by
Lurking in Kansas
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