[West Coast Conservative]

Change title to Begins. Thanks.

[mo]

honestly!!...is there anybody on this forum who does'nt think her Thighness and Reid, if in the position Bush and Frist are, would not have accomplished this by 9:01am January 21st, 2005!!!! The Pubbies keep thinking the Senate is a country club and that rules are to be revered and respected.....while the Dems clean their clocks!

[CDHart]

I'll believe it when I see it --

Carolyn

[RushLake]

Ho-hum are they promising action on the judges again? Act like a real political party?? Maybe they can work on the Bolton confirmation in about a hundred years, or illegal immigration in about a thousand years too.

I'm proud to report that I have begun following the lead of other Freepers and returning the RNC and senate prepaid mail envelopes that come in the mail every other day with a note politely written on the payment slip--"No money until you act on Bush judicial nominations, act on Mr. Bolton, and do something about illigal immigration. I've talked a friend of mine out of sending money and acting likewise. I guess some of us are pulling the trigger too.

[conservativecorner]

"One GOP aide familiar with discussions on timing and strategy said that the drawback of executing the nuclear option before the congressional recess was that it would have denied Republican senators an optimal platform for responding to expected media criticism, as they would have been dispersed among their home states, away from the Capitol’s spotlight."

Complete BS. It's always some frickin' reason why it can't be done today or this week or next week or the week after that. Bottom line is that we have panty waists running the show. Let them screw conservatives again, and it will be to the Republican Parties detriment.

[jackbill]

Interesting PDF document from the Senate's Republican Policy Committee regarding the history of filibusters/"constitutional option" at:

http://rpc.senate.gov/_files/Apr2505ConstOptSD.pdf

Particularly interesting are the examples of how Byrd pulled it off several times.

[csvset]

Hegins? Haggis? Is hegins some sort of Scottish Law procedure?

[Nick Danger]

This just in... Senator Frist has now pulled the trigger about 14% of the way. Senator Rufus T. Foghorn said he expects that Frist will be almost 16% of the way there by this time next week.

[Nick Danger]

Oops. Senator Frist announced today that the gun accidentally went off while he was pulling the trigger. "Hell, I thought I still had about half way to go," he said.

[Lazamataz]

Frist Hegins

OMG! Old Frist Hegins! I haven't seen him since college! I miss old Frist Hegins.

[PGalt]

You sure he's not about to cock the head of the Bill Clinton Pez dispenser?

[SBprone]

Does Frist have the votes or not? He can't act until he has the votes. If he had the votes he'd use them.

[bmwcyle]

Duck tape that spine in and push him forward.

[SuziQ]

I wish the Repubs would stop calling it the 'nuclear option' and start calling it what it is, "The Constitutional Option"!

[sport]

'06 will be here and he will still be sayin that.

And if the Republicans are still able to maintain a majority after the '06 elections, he will till be saying it on election day in '08

I will believe it when I see it.

As far as I am concerned, Frist has lost his credibility.

[Piquaboy]

Yeah Right! and tomorrow my neighbors pigs are going to grow wings and fly off into the sunset.

[citizen]

Frist Hegins....reminds me of Festus Hagen.

[Houmatt]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s (R-Tenn.) chief of staff has told conservative activist leaders and business-community representatives that Frist will soon trigger the so-called “nuclear option” to end threatened Democratic filibusters of President Bush’s judicial nominees this month.

I'm not holding my breath.

[expatpat]

Hegins is hughly series!

[Toadman]

But social conservatives are anticipating from conversations... and are predicting a conservative backlash if Senate Republicans delay any longer.

ABSOLUTELY... It'll be a travshamockery of if the Republicans in the Senate do not support the constitution. I'm am fed up with their procrastination to friggin body-slam the anti-democratic "democrats." As mentioned in an earlier post, it's not the "nuclear" option, it's the Constitutional option. Essentially the democrats are saying "screw the will of the people." What are you going to do about it my elected Republican representive? And why do I even have to ask?