Frist Caves on Filibuster Rule Change for Judicial Nominees

Human Events Online ^ | January 4, 2005 | Robert Bluey

[MikefromOhio]

and what good does it do to assasinate them?


thats just stupid man. Either work within the system, get someone elected from where you are that reflects your views and do it that way or get out.

I dont see where popping those that disagree with you is in the Constitution.....

[Mark in the Old South]

Of course he won't, that'll blow their cover.

[VRWCisme]

When the GOP has been the minority, has there ever been a concerted effort at holding up judicial nominees from even getting a vote? I know that there have been efforts to defeat someone in vote, but how many dem nominees were filibustered for extended periods and never given a vote?

[daybreakcoming]

***I suspect this means Frist didn't have the votes - which means he lost 5+ votes from Republicans.***



I suspect you may be correct. However, IMO he should have made the attempt so that we may know just where the individual Republicans stand.

[ARCADIA]

We would do better to replace the entire reeking congress with 535 randomly selected citizens.

[MikefromOhio]

To keep and bear arms...not to kill Senators because they disagree with you....

I think you need some decaf and maybe some help....

[Lancey Howard]

Can the rules be changed at any time? I mean, if the scumbag Democrats start the filibuster thing again, can the Republicans say, "Har! So much for reaching across the aisle in the spirit of bipartisanship. Now let's shove it down their stinking throats like we should have done at the beginning", and then change the rule immediately?

[avg_freeper]

You win the "most likely to be visited by an SS agent" award. The prize? Thoroughly checked body cavities.

[e5man_r_u?]

Calm down folks. This is abviously a sophisticated Karl Rovian plan to get the Democrats to filibuster another group of qualified candidates. That way the filibustering Dims will lose their seats in 2006.

It is that, right? A brilliant ploy not a spineless cave-in?
Lie to me if you have to!
It is all a Karl Rovesque scheme! It is! It is!

Oh OK, they caved again!

[snopercod]

What a sitzpinkler Frist is.

[PeterPhilly]

"There's a bunch of political wrangling going on. They saw this as effective with getting Daschle out of office, and they're hoping that they can get what they want anyway. And if the Dems block again, to make it a National election issue in the next set of campaigns. It's not a bad strategy, it's just a frustrating one if you're not patient."

Oh good....we don't actually want to confirm judges....we just want something we can use in fundraising letters. I have proposed this before(in conjunction with the Republicans refusal to deny Arlen Specter the Judiciary chairmanship)and it works just as well now. Every time you get a Republican fundraising letter, just return it with a short message stating that no funds will be forthcoming until they actually start to enact the policies they ran on. If you hit them in the pocketbook, maybe they'll listen. They take us for granted because they assume we have nowhere else to go. We could probably get them 65 Republicans in the Senate and they'd still find ways not to act like the majority party.

[Soul Seeker]

I say only this...

I will not tolerate another session of filibusters. I am not going to wait until there is a 67 seat majority (if that is even possible) to have the law adherred to. I expect Bush's nominations to be allowed a vote. If that doesn't happen, there will be consequences.

I have patience, but it is not eternal. The GOP Senators are on probation.

[Harvuskong]

I think that if he has lost 5 and only 5 votes, it could still be done with Cheney's yes vote to break the tie.

[PsyOp]

The French/Frist Gambit: Surrender, collaborate, then claim victory.

I'm so glad I said no last night when the Republican telemarketers called me once again for another donation.

My new slogan is "No Money For RINO's!"

The party has four years to convince me not become an Independent or Libertarian.

[snopercod]

I got my call from the RNC last night, and told them to stick it.

[dljordan]

I'm sure someone will be along to explain how this is top-level strategery and to lambast the nay-sayers for being infidels.

[RinaseaofDs]

Which means he should have made the RINO's go on the record for it and take their chances at re-election time.

I have to say, Hatch delivered and Frist fumbled. If he was thinking about an 08 run for President, that's out.

In my opinion, Senators shouldn't even try running for President anyway. They cheat to win (Kennedy) and carry with them poor work habits from the days they spent laying about in relative anonymity.

[MissouriConservative]

What happened to all the "tough" talk? Was Frist hoping to "scare" the democrats with his words only? They called his bluff and he caved like a wimp. Call for "cooperation" with democrats is like a sheep calling for "cooperation" with a pack of wolves.

When will Republicans grow a pair and start acting like they run the place instead of letting a minority run over them like a steam roller?