Posted on 04/25/2005 4:05:32 PM PDT by GB
WASHINGTON - In private talks with Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Senate's top Democrat has indicated a willingness to allow confirmation of at least two of President Bush's seven controversial appeals court nominees, but only as part of a broader compromise requiring Republicans to abandon threats to ban judicial filibusters, officials said Monday.
At the same time he offers to clear two nominees to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals for approval, officials said Sen. Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), D-Nev., wants a third appointee to be replaced by an alternative who is preferred by Michigan's two Democratic senators.The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity, citing the confidential nature of the conversations between the two leaders.
Reid issued a statement during the day saying he has had numerous conversations with senators in both parties in hopes of avoiding a showdown. "As part of any resolution, the nuclear option must be off the table," the statement concluded, referring to the GOP threat of banning judicial filibusters.
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Extend your hand to a Democrat and he'll tear it off and beat you over the head with it. If the Republicans don't know this by now, they're bigger asses than I thought they were.
Thanks , Frist needs to leave if he blows this one. We need real Conservatives.... And everybody needs to let him know now before he blows it. Not after....
Anybody want to give odds that the bastard Frist will cave?
didn't we look the other way and let burgurgler off the hook?
etc etc
I think I've been out in the woods too long. I was under the impression we won the election and that we have both houses...
I avoided this thread in order to protect my blood pressure, which is usually normal.
IF frist caves in order to accommodate ANYTHING to sell out MI, I WILL actively oppose his stupid presidential bid.
MI is NOT a BLUE state to be ignored.
Half-glasses and stabusnow MUST be replaced.
I'm with you rc, I bet Frist is salivating at the thought of not having to pull the trigger on the filibusters. This is ridiculous! No. All the president's nominees that make it out of committee deserve an up or down vote. It is not up to Reid or Biden to decide who will be voted on. Frist I'm sure will fall for this however.
it is.
has been.
and will be.
get used to it.
people love socialism.
Agreed.
Flood Frist's office.
We will not surrender the President's Constitutional Rights. The Republicans have NO authority on my behalf or the base to negotiate these rights away. They have no authority under the Constitution to do so.
Senator Frist, VOTE. END IT NOW or ELSE Marvericks and Reps will pay. One for being snakes. The other for being wimps.
BINGO!
Just look at the tepid odds at Tradespots. www.tradesports.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/
Weird.
I basically posted the same thing a few minutes before you did in the previous threaded post.
I like the Mr. Smith reference. What is wrong with actually making a filibuster a filibuster?
He best not. I'd prefer they continue on their multiple year stalemate and use it to defeat Stabenow. But you can bet the Dems are looking for a way to neutralize this long standing problem with Bush's Michigan nominees. It's hard to figure the politics of this one though, she was barely elected in a state that has been minimally blue for a while.
No deals. No compromise. Either they all get up-or-down votes, or push through the constitutional option.
Unacceptable...these talks better not remain "quiet." Let them have it, talk radio and bloggers.
So, Reid was elected President...how long have I been asleep?
You don't deal when you hold all the cards.
Tell that to Frist and the wimps in the Senate..
Not one red cent until you bust the filibuster.
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