[ken5050]

Comments solicited, along with the obligatory pics of white hoods.....

Sounds to me like Dems are gettig very nervous...

[ken5050]

FYI...ping lists, please

[OXENinFLA]

PING...

[Bahbah]

Sounds to me like Dems are gettig very nervous...

That is the sense I am getting. Counting on ya'll to keep those of us who do not have the office all to ourselves today informed. This should be amusing.

[JustaCowgirl]

If Sheets has the floor for an hour, that should be good enough to get out a couple of sentences, at least.

[Carolinamom]

Glad I found this thread....waiting to see what lies he will spew. He does so love attention.

[Piquaboy]

Sometimes I wonder whose side C-Spin is on.

[tkathy]

I believe he filibustered some major civil rights legislation years ago. He is a disgrace.

[OXENinFLA]

Bump....Byrd up

[F.J. Mitchell]

There it is again Dem and Think,in the same sentence. Oh well, OX and moron in the same word is perfect for defining Dems.

[The Old Hoosier]

Is that lipstick he's wearing?

[TomGuy]

 

 

 

Allowing Dems to hold Judicial nominees hostage since
February 13, 2003

Hostage Situation Continues - Monday, April 25, 2005

Day 801

[syriacus]

Off topic comment: Why are Byrd's lips always so red?

[hgro]

KKK Bob has been given too much rope and is hanging himself rather than an African American.

[bandleader]

I just went online.Did I miss ol'Sheets Byrd railing about "Changing"The Constitution???Aw,Shucks!!!!!!!!

[Petronski]

Ole Sheets has become a real whore to the hard left nuthouses these days. Moveon.org and now CAP?



Why are his lips so ruby red?

[syriacus]

Byrd playing the "religion" card, saying he understands the frustrations of the religious right.

I wonder why Schumer and Byrd think they are able to hold public office at the same time that they avow that their "primary duty" is to God,* ; but, Schumer thinks others are incapable of doing the same.

Note:
*Freemasonry Supports Religion. Freemasonry is far from indifferent toward religion. Without interfering in religious practice, it expects each member to follow his own faith and to place his Duty to God above all other duties. Its moral teachings are acceptable to all religions.

[DoctorMichael]

Senile-PorkBarrel-Racist Bump.

[YaYa123]

Norman Ornstein says Byrd holds reverence for our government institutions. Ornstein says Republicans are using talking points, as if the republican senators say something enough times, it will become so. I find this whole episode dismaying, in it's scope and it's consequences. There's no doubt in my mind if President Bush had called Senator Reid to the White House shortly after the election, there's no doubt in my mind he could have said, I'm putting forth 10 nominees, and I want 6 of them, and an agreement could have been reached. (Ornstein is smoking something!)

[TomGuy]

Prof Gerhardt is doing the ole shellgame to defend his position. He is using generalities when he needs to gloss over specifics that would contradict his position.

The Prof lumps holding judicial nominees in committee with failure to bring a nominee, voted out of committee, to the floor.

Then The Prof implies that changing that would be precedent-setting. The Prof fails to mention that, holding a nominee voted out of committee, but filibustering the nominee to get to a floor vote, is itself precedent-setting and that precedent was set in the last session of the Senate when Dems held a 1-vote majority (thanks to Jim Jeffords, TC*-VT).

Regrettable, the GOP is doing a typical poor PR job on this issue. When push comes to shove, the msm will skewer the GOP who try to change this. Frist, by not stopping it when it first started with the Estrada filibuster 2-13-03, has painted himself into a corner.

[The GOP have set themselves up to lose this: either they will lose the actual vote to change the rules (now that precedent has been set) or they will lose the PR war in the MSM just like they did when Gingritch shut down the government during the Clinton administration. For the GOP this is a lose-lose now.]


*TC = turn coat

[Sun]

I received this by e-mail from the Center for Reclaiming America:

"+ +ACTION ITEM #2--Contact the Key Swing Vote Senators

The Center has identified seven key senators whose votes may well
decide the fate of the filibuster rules change. We are asking all
member of our online team to contact these individual senators,
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Even if none of these seven senators is your own senator, please
invest the time needed to call each right now.

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Sen. Lincoln Chafee (RI) 202-224-2921
Sen. Susan Collins (ME) 202-224-2523
Sen. Mike DeWine (OH) 202-224-2315
Sen. John McCain (AZ) 202-224-2235
Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) 202-224-5344
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