Up Or Down Vote (Democrats' Double Standard)

hyp·o·crite -- n. One who pretends to be what he is not or to have principles or beliefs that he does not have

The Democrats' efforts to block President Bush's qualified judicial nominees are not only hypocritical but are examples of partisan politicking at its worst.

Republicans in the Senate are working to ensure that all of President Bush's judicial nominees receive a fair and final up-or-down vote. Despite Senate history and tradition, Democrats are aggressively trying to prevent qualified judges from receiving what's been afforded every judicial nominee for over 200 years.

During the Clinton Administration, Democrats demanded up-or-down majority votes on judicial nominations, but, now that they are in the minority, they have become the party of obstructionism and double standards.

The Constitution guarantees an up or down vote, but the Democrats don't want to perform their duty.

On July 25, 2003, President Bush made history by nominating Janice Rogers Brown to the federal bench. Brown is the first African American elected to the California Supreme Court and was reelected by California voters with 76% of the vote.

The daughter of Alabama sharecroppers who grew up in segregated schools in the midst of Jim Crow policies in the South, Brown is a single mother who worked her way through college and law school.

Despite her sterling personal and legal credentials, during the 108th Congress, Senate Democrats used a hypocritical double standard to block her nomination. Judge Brown is not alone. Senate Democrats obstructed an up-or-down vote on 9 other well-qualified judges. Some of these judges have been waiting for a vote for four years.

It seems Democrats have changed their tune on giving all judicial nominees a fair up-or-down vote. They now claim the filibuster is a sacred tool of the Senate. But in 1995, Democrats, including nine who still serve, voted to rid the Senate of this tool.

That's right, nine current Democratic Senators voted to get rid of the filibuster. Now that it suits their needs, they praise it. What's worse than this hypocrisy is these same Senators now lead the obstruction and threaten to shut down the Senate. Their claims of loyalty to, and reverence for, Senate traditions are just another sham designed to hide their hypocrisy.

Dear Mr. Mehlman:

Another example of a hypocrite: Both President Bush and Governor Bush took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution.

In that Constitution, the 14th Amendment says that no state shall deprive any person of life without due process of law.

"Due process" refers to conviction of a crime. "Due process" does not refer, ever, to processes designed to deprive innocent people of their lives. Such "processes" are merely conspiracies to commit murder under color of law.

Thus, when the state of Florida, of which Governor Bush is the chief executive, deprived Terri Schiavo of life, i.e., murdered her, and Governor Bush and President Bush both refused to use their executive powers to save her life, both men violated their oath of office, because both men took the position that the government of the state of Florida DOES have the authority to murder people.

And yet, if you were to ask both of these men whether they believe that the 14th Amendment is the law of the land, both of them would lie, and tell you that they do.

But we all know that the they don't, because both of them repudiated the 14th Amendment when they conceded to the state of Florida the authority to murder Terri Schiavo.

So, there's another great example of hypocrisy that you could write about in your next e-mail.

Sincerely,

Arthur McGowan

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April 25, 2005

Dear Arthur,
Hypocrite - noun, one who pretends to be what he is not or to have principles or beliefs that he does not have.

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Sincerely,

Ken Mehlman
Chairman, RNC

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