And Laz packs his bags,
once again getting ready
to hit the life boats . . .
Posted on 05/10/2005 2:08:07 PM PDT by Cedar
Dobson: Lott Has Brokered Deal on Filibuster
By Chad Groening and Jody Brown May 10, 2005
(AgapePress) - A prominent pro-family leader says he is "disgusted and alarmed" that Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott appears ready to cut a deal with Senate Democrats to preserve their right to filibuster President Bush's judicial nominees.
On Tuesday (May 10), Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family told Don Wildmon, chairman and founder of the American Family Association, that a "totally reliable source" informed him that the senior senator from Mississippi has arranged a deal that would effectively prevent Majority Leader Bill Frist from invoking the constitutional option -- sometimes referred to as the "nuclear option" -- to stop the Democrats' continued filibuster against the president's conservative judicial nominees.
Speaking to Wildmon on American Family Radio's AFA Report, Dobson conveyed his feelings about the report given to him by that source.
"I don't remember being so disgusted and alarmed by what I just had confirmed in the Senate as I am now," Dobson stated emphatically. "Senator Trent Lott is about to sabotage Majority Leader Frist and cut a separate deal with the Democrats to preserve the filibuster of judges."
According to Dobson, Lott and five other GOP senators will join six Democrats in the arrangement. "The deal, which Senator Lott vigorously denied yesterday, proposes that four of the ten filibustered judges would be confirmed -- but that the filibuster would remain intact," the Focus on the Family founder says.
What's in it for the Democrats? Dobson explains: "The Democrats, for what it's worth, have promised not to filibuster [nominees for] Supreme Court justice [vacancies] unless there were 'extreme circumstances,'" Dobson says skeptically. "Guess what that means: it means that it's business as usual."
The possible deal was first mentioned on Monday (May 9) by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper. Wildmon, like Dobson, voiced strong feelings about the plan at that time. "This is exactly the kind of compromise the liberals have been looking for," Wildmon stated in an Action Alert to his organization's supporters on Tuesday morning, distributed before he received word from Dobson. "Senator Lott's proposal will do nothing but allow the liberals to still be in control."
Wildmon describes the vote to end the filibuster as "the most important vote taken this year in the Senate" -- and Senator Lott's proposal, he says, "means we lose."
When he received word on Monday of the possible deal being discussed by Lott and Senate Democrats, Wildmon began alerting listeners to his American Family Radio stations throughout the Magnolia State, encouraging them to call the senator's main office in Washington, DC, and district offices located in four Mississippi cities, and providing phone numbers for those offices. Lott's offices were reportedly kept very busy fielding calls from constituents voicing their opinion on the filibuster deal.
© 2005 AgapePress
And Laz packs his bags,
once again getting ready
to hit the life boats . . .
Hey Laz, I read your post awhile back about giving up on the Republican party. Changed your mind yet? Just kidding. I know this kind of crap just reinforces your conviction.
Lott's seat is too secure in Mississippi. He needs competition.
My bags ain't been unpacked yet.
And sure, if the ship is sinking, I'm gone.
I really will break the way the judges do. If the Repubs cave, I'm out. If not, I stay.
this, and coughing up $1 Billion to pay ILLEGALS medical bills....RINO's about out number the group
what the hell is going on????
What will it take to get some decent Senate leadership? I certainly hope Santorum wins re-elect so he can lead these clowns.
A third Party might just be down the road, if the GOP keeps this up.
I'm with you. I'm pretty sick of the Republicans not governing, rolling up spending like a drunken sailor in a brothel and cowering before Kennedy and Reid. I'm pretty fed up with Bush for not calling in some markers to force the RINO's to fall in line. Lyndon Johnson would have castrated Democrat Senators who crossed him but then he was a born and bred Texan, just in the wrong party.
They have Lott has MS' "senior" senator.. Thad Cochran is MS' senior senator.
What a time for him to grow balls....
I'd join a real Conservative Party.
Packing TODAY.
NOT next election.
Why does everyone say 3rd party when there's already like 20? Because they think their fringe party will do better than the others? Don't you know the fix is in? Let's see. You have the MSM in the tank for the Democrats. You've got Fox News and talk radio in the tank for the GOP. So who's going to give a platform to a third party? It'd have to be a rich goon like Perot with enough money to do it himself. All the others are establishment types, dancing with the pigs that brung em.
Ain't that the truth.
I wouldn't put it past him. Remember the old saying, Revenge is best served cold.
There are 30 votes AT THE MOST for Brown, Owens, and other similar judges. The reason for all the fussin' and fightin' is that the 25 Republicans who would vote "no" if they were free are afraid of the folks back home (as well they should be).
The "filibuster" has been for them a dream, since they can "support" the President by voting "aye" on a cloture motion which is certain to fail, so that they then are relieved of the task of betraying President Bush in public.
WE NEED MORE CONSERVATIVE SENATORS-or we need to get about serious consideration of our God-given alternatives.
I think they geniunely are tired of being in the majority. The Republicans LIKE the minority status and not having the White House. That's why they are working so hard to lose everything.
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