But I'm not breaking out the champagne quite yet
Thermonuclear would be better.
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll celebrate this in the past tense only. I'll believe it when Brit smacks Juan in the face with it.
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.
I'd still love to see the letter they made Specter sign.....
The press is whining for the Rats, so it must mean we're getting somewhere.
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.
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.
Yeah, it's call winning. NOTE to Dimocrats: we won, we govern, get use to it.
It's about damn time!
Do unto the Dem liberals as they have done unto us-IN SPADES!!!!
Since 1994, the GOP has had so many opportunites to shine. But it hasn't done so yet. With so many RINO's, it's hard to say what can and/or will happen. As a life long resident of Kansas, which has not elected a RAT senator for nearly 60 years, it still elects RINO's. I hope the Senate and House Republicans seize the moment........it's long overdue.
The Democrats killed that silly notion 15 years ago when they first unveiled the tactic now known as "Borking". The Democrats have since refined and further developed their "art of the smear" through the Clarence Thomas hearings ("a high-tech lynching"), and have now taken the unprecedented path of filibustering TEN lower-level court appointments.
I am delighted to see that the Republicans have finally realized that the Democrats went "nuclear" long, long ago.
Bull hockey. Why is it "going nuclear" for Republicans to work the rules to their own advantage, but not when the other party does so? The dems had already "gone nuclear" by using the filibuster against judicial nominees for the first time in history.
I'll believe it when I see it.
BTTT
I'd keep the cork in, too, because I'll believe this show of spine from the Senate GOP when I see it. Not a moment before, since they don't exactly have a record of standing up for anything.
MM
Frankly, we've heard this foofoodust before--about 4 years ago.
And where are we now?