Forgive me for being a bit stupid, buy why is it that this information is not being distributed to everyone with a brain or a computer by the GOP? Why is it that OXENinFLA had to do the GOP's work for them? Don't they have access to Lexis-Nexis? Yikes!
What REALLY troubles me is that this post, which I believe has enormous significance, might very well evaporate into the blogworld abyss. Why would we let that happen?
I wish I had LexisNexis!
Senators of both parties acknowledge that the current use of filibusters to require a 60-vote standard to confirm judicial nominees is UNPRECEDENTED, including the following Democrats:
Sen. Corzine
(D-N.J.): In a November 3, 2003, fundraising e-mail to potential donors, the then-chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee acknowledged – indeed, boasted – that the current blockade of judicial nominees is “unprecedented.”
Sen. Leahy (D-Vt.): On October 14, 1998, Senator Leahy stated on the Senate floor that “I cannot recall a judicial nomination being successfully filibustered.”