Posted on 05/09/2005 5:11:00 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
I was listening to Laura Ingraham this morning and she was playing sound bites of Specter's speech yesterday and it was sickening how often he blamed "both" sides---just threw his own party under the bus...
When Schumer first got up and said that Orrin Hatch (his good friend) only represents a couple of million people in his state, but HE, Schumer represents 19 million, I about choked...this argument has GOT to be shut down...as far as I am concerned the "checks and balances" he keep referring to, should go the other way, then, so that a state like Utah has as much stature as a state like New York with millions and millions more people....but whose interests are no more important that the people in Utah.
Virtually his entire presentation was a study in contradictions. He argues the importance of the Senate in protecting minority rights and then says he should have more power than Hatch because he represents more people. He says there is no reference in the Constitution to the filibuster (correct) and then says that changing Senate rules upends the Constitution. If he had a conscience, he'd be too ashamed to show up on the floor ever again.
It sounds like the Dems want to change the electoral
Something Hellary has been wanting to do for some time
Well, I see that they have coerced a so-called moderate democrat to come out and echo their tripe!
Dianne Feinstein is one of the Dems that Hatch should get up and mention how disappointed he his about some that repeat the distorted rhetoric of the left...
BTW, is it not totally disgusting when Schumer and friends are overtly on the Senate floor, trying to coerce the ELECTED Republicans to go against their constituents and go along with the dems farce and obstructionism....
Pity the poor fools that DO fall for that and vote with the dems...like McCain and anyone else that will actually have their names in the DEMOCRAT side of the ledger on this...
Does Chuckie realize that the ONLY part of the Constitution that CANNOT be amended is the proviso that each State shall have equal suffrage in the Senate?
It was really a stupid thing for Chuckie to say. There are far more small states than large ones. Does Chuckie think that being from a large state makes him more of a Senator than Hatch? Would he like to try that argument on Byrd or Leahy or Searchlight?
no flames, please
It was "throw anything against the wall that you can get your hands on and see if it sticks" day.
I know what you mean, because I bet even if there was a set in stone rule requiring 60 votes, it could still be accomplished without his whoop-de-do state of New York, or that state of leftists, California...
IOW, Schumer, get over yourself!
Chuckie want's a pi**ing contest!
Did Hatch really use that graphic??
Not today.
I think there's a date on the pic.
He's not implying that he should have more voice because he represents more people, is he?
Oh, dang---James Rosen on Fox is reporting that at 5:00 tonight, representatives of the National Security Administration will meet in a secret room for a briefing with the Foreign Affairs Committee regarding 10 memos that h
had been heavily redacted----
Condi Rice HAD said NO, and so had the NSA, yesterday. I guess they caved, because there IS gonna be a meeting tonight! Oh, and BTW, Sen. Rockefeller is insisting that he be able to attend because he is a member of the Intell. Committee. Of course, Sen. Rockefeller, along with Sen. Levin are the ones that are desperately trying to find an impeachable offense regarding the War in Iraq, in order to get Bush out of office....
I know this was not Senate action right now, but I thought ya'll might be interested in that news...
"Which would the public rather prefer?"
*Rolling my eyes*
I am curious---Sen. Cochran got up to discuss the Emerg. Supplemental Conf. report and how they were to have 2 + hours of debate and then vote early this afternoon...
All of a sudden Feinstien gets up and says she wants 30 minutes and talks about this!!! What is wrong here? Do the dems control the Senate procedures and what is supposed to happen, now? Cochoran should have told her that the time for morining business was over and to wait until they are in morning business again....
Dang, are ALL of the REps. pantywaists?
Just saw a new thread that says that on Tony Snow's show this morning, that Sen. Lott, when asked about the compromise that he is supposedly crafting with Sen. Nelson, said that he didn't care if the RePS didn't like it because, "they threw me under the bus" , so therefore, he no longer feels loyalty to the ReP party and is going on his own now....
Anyone keeping track NOW on how many Rep senators have turned their backs on the party, the President, and more importantly, their VOTERS?
What is Hellary yelling about???
BTW .. have ya seen this??
Hillary Trial Starts Tuesday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399851/posts
Are you kidding?
BINGO!
Think electoral
Does anyone find it JUST a little hypocritical of Hillbilly to be up on the Senate floor BLASTING the Conf. report for having the REAL ID ACT in it without the Senators being able to debate it?
I didn't see her getting upset that the Dorgan/Kerry/Durbin amendment covering up her and her husband's scheme to sic the IRS on their enemies was added on without debate on the Senate floor.....hm.........c'mon Hillbilly, why aren't you equally as outraged about that?
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