Posted on 03/23/2005 5:45:14 PM PST by freeholland
If the spineless GOP leadership doesn't get the New England leftist Republicans in line on this issue, this old soldier is done at the voting booth for the foreseeable future.
No one ever went broke betting on Republican cowardice.
One of the biggest advantages of being the majority party should be the ability to get your judicial nominees approved. The Republicans who are against the nuclear option are being way too "fair". The Democrats are cutthroat: if they held the majority and the nuclear option was needed to get their judicial nominees thru, they'd use it in a heartbeat.
Maybe we should give the Democrats an ultimatum and a deadline---and then use the nuclear option if they don't comply. Maybe that would make some of the "wobbly" six or seven feel better about voting for it.
"The present philosophical war being waged here is not intended to decide the nature of our constitutional republic as being liberal or conservative, but will instead determine whether our constitutional republic, as envisioned by the founders, will prevail or fade into oblivion." --Christopher Adamo, 2005
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." --Abraham Lincoln, 1863--Boot Hill
I don't think they're afraid in the way you mean.
I think almost all Senators are from the same class-after they leave home, they go to elite schools, they imbibe elitist doctrine, and they are therefore secularists and moral relativists.
When they go back home, in order to become Senators, they have to fit in with the People.
In red states, this means they have to be verbally committed to the life/natural rights agenda.
In the glory days of the Republican minority, this presented no problem to them, because their was no chance that their advocacy of their constituents "simplified" beliefs could lead to a concrete result.
Now, however, nothing stands in the way of the national GOP agenda-except for the reluctant dragons of the Senate GOP "majority".
Many of them need to be replaced.
"Make recalcitrant Republicans pay a political price."
Add Frist, Lindsey Graham and Trent Lott to that list. What good are they?
"There are six Republican senators who are either against changing the rules or are not solidly for it...Without the support of at least two of the six (51 votes required to change the rules), the rule change will fail and the liberals will win. Frist will not bring it up for a vote until he knows what the outcome will be."
And that would be a mistake on Frist's part. By pushing for such an amendment and flushing out the Benedict Arnold Republican Senators, that would help the party in the future. How can the base correct the problem if it is not made aware of who the weak links are in the party?
And this guy thinks he can be President in '08?
"As it is, the Republicans have passed their ENTIRE economic agenda, and have wavered on the ONLY part of their agenda that is truly pro-life: the nuclear option."
They have achieved their economic agenda, while America is still a welfare state? And with the largest federal government in history? You must have an interesting set of measures.
actually, Republicans filibustered many of Bill Clintons Judicial Nominees.
Yeah, then he appointed them anyway when congress was not in session, followed by pardoning all his criminal friends before he left office.
Whose side are you on Mr. 03/25/05?
"It's quickly becoming apparent that the only option we have left to stave off judicial tyranny is the 2nd Amendment."
That's what it's there for.
"Let me ask you a question. If over 2000 years ago, you could have saved Christ from being hung on a cross, that precious life, would you have done it? What would have been the result then?
"Sometimes God wants us to see bigger things."
The political nature of government is to achieve the platform of its constituency.
If the Party fails that, it is *not* entitled to its base.
Bush can achieve both activist foreign policy *and* providing the leadership and bully pulpit work needed to get pro-life judges through.
It's *not* a one of the other proposition. And you should know better.
I would say that our "men in black robes" are America's version of Iran's mullahs.
Almost akin to the French.
BTTT This is probably one of the most important discussions I've seen on FR in a while!
"I would say that our "men in black robes" are America's version of Iran's mullahs."
Civilised government is established with the consent of the governed. If the various branches begin to act outside of this consent, on a major and persistent basis, they are acting contrary to their duties.
What then for the progressive left to do? Expand "the governed." No longer are American justices (and the Democrat party) working for Americans, but they are World Citizens, and must respect a new covenant.
This can all get real ugly. And if it does, you can bet people will be looking in history books about this old party called the Republicans.
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