No surprise.
Are We surpised! Frist is a RINO!
Standard, GOP-issue micro-nads?
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Oh, crud. I thought he said they wouldn't cave this time?
I suspect this means Frist didn't have the votes - which means he lost 5+ votes from Republicans.
Frist just wrote off the slim hope he had of being on the national ticket in '08. What a putz.
In a speech Tuesday opening the 109th Congress, the GOP leader instead called for cooperation among Republicans and Democrats....
"I was extremely disappointed to learn today that the president intends to begin the new Congress by resubmitting the nomination of extremist judicial nominees," Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) said in a statement at the time.
Just a hunch.
Frist better count his fingers when he gets his hand back.
A worthy successor to 'Grease Me Up' Trent Lott!
Frist covets the presidency; he is very ambitious. He is also extremely wishy-washy. Without a doubt, he is not reliably conservative.
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.
The Media wouldn't run news stories on the blocked judges when their corrupt Democrat buddies were blocking them. But they CAN'T IGNORE the national publicity on a US Supreme Court nominee. And that gives the Repubs the National TV podium to make the DemonRats look like the obstructing morons they truly are.
It's not as bad as it looks although I'd just as soon like to see the rule change.
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Alrighty then, I can't wait for my monthly call from the RNC...
I'll wait until Bush gets a nomination before I get worried, I guess. But I do think Frist is a weasel, not that most Senator aren't, of course.
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Well now this situation needs to change.
I read Frist's statement differently. I saw it partially as a threat (I don't believe he has ever before publicly committed himself to the 'nuclear option' if the filibusters are not lifted) and partially as political cover. This was his spin that it is not him destroying Senate tradition but Dems who already have...but he is willing to give them one more chance to make it right.
All that said, I don't see the dems backing down. They always play hardball. And they are used to R's caving. The question becomes, will Frist act on his threat or cave? That I don't yet know, but I don't think this speech is necessarily evidence that he will.
NO PARTY STAYS IN POWER FOREVER. I, like Senator Frist, would prefer to find a way to get a vote on the President's nominees, without invoking the Nuclear Option. I would be especially unhappy with the GOP if they attempted to do away with the filibuster procedure without even forcing the Democrats to mount a real filibuster.