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Schumer Signals 'Nuclear' War on Nominees
Human Events Online ^ | February 24, 2005 | Robert Bluey

Posted on 02/24/2005 1:45:37 PM PST by hinterlander

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1 posted on 02/24/2005 1:45:52 PM PST by hinterlander
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To: hinterlander

Why, why, why? A simple up or down vote is all that is asked!! Someone ought to sue the obstructionists in Congress for wasting tax-payer money by not earning their pay.


2 posted on 02/24/2005 1:50:43 PM PST by griswold3
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To: hinterlander

Specter's actions are on display. He has been in the pockets of the demoncRATS too long.


3 posted on 02/24/2005 1:52:09 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: hinterlander
If we have the nuclear option, the Senate will be in turmoil"

Please go nuclear.

4 posted on 02/24/2005 1:53:13 PM PST by jsmith48 (www.isupatriot.com)
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To: lilylangtree

W shouldn't have trusted him. I don't.


5 posted on 02/24/2005 1:53:28 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: hinterlander

It's funny, and scary, to think that Schumer used to be someone, before All About Eve Rodham Clinton stole his camera time.


6 posted on 02/24/2005 1:54:06 PM PST by Paul Atreides (Hillary, Nancy, and Barbara: Proof that there are strong men in the Democrat Party)
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To: lilylangtree

There should be a new law that any orgnaization or company that takes in government money cannot lobby politicians. Talk about conflict of interest.


7 posted on 02/24/2005 1:55:57 PM PST by John Lenin
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To: hinterlander
The 'Rats have already pushed the nuclear button with their filibuster of judicial nominees. Any subsequent actions by Republicans are simply within the envelope of the "flexible response" doctrine. There is nothing wrong with "going nuclear" when you have already been nuked. In fact, if you don't, you're merely signaling surrender. Changing rules that are being abused is certainly a reasonable option.
8 posted on 02/24/2005 1:58:42 PM PST by chimera
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To: griswold3

The only problem with your approach is that the ba$tards would get to use our tax dollars to defend themselves against us, and in the event of financial damages, would be able to use our tax dollars to pay us. We need a senate leader that does not have the spine of a chocolate eclair.


9 posted on 02/24/2005 1:59:44 PM PST by RushLake (Permission from the UN...we don't need no stinking permission slip from the UN.)
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To: hinterlander

NUKE EM'!!!!!


10 posted on 02/24/2005 1:59:57 PM PST by GreenHornet
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Hey Chuckie you putz:

BRING IT ON!!!!

11 posted on 02/24/2005 2:01:47 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Paul Atreides

The dems have nothing. It's absolutely nothing but a bluff. The louder they scream, the more obvious it is. If they had any real leverage, or if they thought the Pubs would hurt themselves by going nuclear, they wouldn't be screaming so loudly. Punch it through. Just do it. This is a paper tiger waiting to be slain. And when the dust settles, people will scratch their heads and wonder what everybody was so afraid of, and why it took so long. Just DO it!


12 posted on 02/24/2005 2:02:32 PM PST by Prince Caspian (Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
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To: lilylangtree

I think the RICO statute should be applied here to the entire democratic party.


13 posted on 02/24/2005 2:03:06 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: hinterlander
I said the President nominating them is sort of a poke in the eye.

And about damn time too.

14 posted on 02/24/2005 2:04:10 PM PST by Uncle Fud
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To: hinterlander

Indeed while they are all equally meritorious and should be approved immediately, I do hope they bring the black female nominee to the floor first and go nuclear on that one.

After the RATs treatment of Dr. Rice, they will be hard pressed to bet their futures on obstructing this nominee.


15 posted on 02/24/2005 2:10:12 PM PST by rod1 (uired 4 more hours).)
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To: hinterlander

Introduce a bill to defund and disband committees. Same people talking about the same issues they are sworn to act on as the constitution calls for. Committee obstruction is just a vehicle for revenue enhancement for political warchests. Debate every bill in full session in the order they are introduced and as they are drafted.


16 posted on 02/24/2005 2:13:26 PM PST by blackdog (Lord of Woop Woop.)
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To: chimera

I agree.

Right now, the Dems are daring Frist to go nuclear.

If Frist backs off, the Dems know they still hold the cards in the Senate.

It's Frist's move now...and I hope he goes nuclear.


17 posted on 02/24/2005 2:16:05 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: lilylangtree
"My preference would be not to have hearings, and there is good precedent not to have hearings," Specter said Thursday. "But when somebody comes to me on the other side and says, 'There's some issue I'd like to explore,' for example, [William] Haynes, deputy general counsel for the Department of Defense, on what has happened on the issues of torture, there's a reason we'll have a hearing. If I see daylight that a hearing might be productive, I'll have a hearing. So I'm going to take them one at a time."

Arlen Sphincter has no qualms about an aborted baby, but just let someone put panties on a terrorist's head....

18 posted on 02/24/2005 2:19:03 PM PST by Paul Atreides (Hillary, Nancy, and Barbara: Proof that there are strong men in the Democrat Party)
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NOMINATIONS OF RICHARD A. PAEZ AND MARSHA L. BERZON--(Senate - March 07, 2000)

Mr. SCHUMER.: I also plead with my colleagues to move judges with alacrity--vote them up or down. But this delay makes a mockery of the Constitution , makes a mockery of the fact that we are here working, and makes a mockery of the lives of very sincere people who have put themselves forward to be judges and then they hang out there in limbo.

19 posted on 02/24/2005 2:22:19 PM PST by doug from upland (Ray Charles --- a great musician and safer driver than Ted Kennedy)
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Senate Democrats are preparing to once again filibuster President Bush's judicial nominees

I am shocked, just plain shocked! NOT!


20 posted on 02/24/2005 2:40:15 PM PST by taxesareforever
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