[conservativecorner]

We have a bunch of panty waisted girly men running this farce...I mean the new session of the senate.

[wk4bush2004]

Just have the showdown, crush the liberals, and then confirm the judges!!!!

[Semper Paratus]

First should have had the vote immediatly after Reid called the President a loser.

[worldclass]

"We have a bunch of panty waisted girly men running this farce"

Nah...girly men still have balls, small as they are. These guys are eunuchs.

[wrathof59]

Senator Frist: I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow this house down!"

We've been hearing this for months on end, blah, blah blah

Just do already Senator Frist, and if you can't (for whatever reason) please move on.

[taxesareforever]

How long have we been hearing "next week"? It is really getting monotonous and I am to the point I don't even read the articles anymore. They might as well start out by saying "Once upon a time" because they are trying to have us believe a fairy tale.

[Rennes Templar]

Todays plane scare was the fastest those guys moved since 911. Someone needs to light a rocket under all their arses.

[river rat]

If Frist doesn't "pull the trigger" and shoot these leftist bastards right between the eyes with EVERY JUDGE, I will be among the voters that stay home next election..

Better to have the Left take over and quickly anger the population to the point of expulsion - than to suffer the fate of the frog sitting in warm water -- slowly but constantly getting hotter..

I guess the GOP has earned the nickname - the "Stupid Party"..
They are also the pansy party...afraid of a fight.

Semper Fi

[Nick Danger]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

When it comes to political maneuvering, the republicans are playing checkers and the democrats are playing chess. When the dems had the majority in the Senate, they were able to quash Bush's nominations in committee. Recall how they got that majority--by bribing Jim Jeffords to leave the Republican party shortly after voters elected him (as a Republican.) And we're hesitating to use the nuclear option.

Here is a simple question: If (shudder) Hillary Clinton was president and a there was a dem majority in the Senate, and Republicans were thwarting every judical nomination by using the filibuster, what would the democrats do?

I'll make it easy--multiple choice.

a. Invoke the nuclear option faster than Monica can put on kneepads.
b. Commit Arkancide on recalcitrant republicans faster than you can say "Vince Foster."
c. Force the filibuster to be an actual filibuster, with long-winded text-readings that would make Teddy Kennedy and Sheets Byrd proud.
d. Attempt to compromise with the republicans so that a spirit of comity could remain in Washington.

[RedEyeJack]

Harry Reid does not respect Bill Frist or George Bush. He is offering to negotiate something with Frist that Frist has no power to do. He is telling Frist that he (Reid) is calling the shots on the President's nominations and that the ones he favors, for what ever reason, can go for a vote but that the ones he disfavors, apparently for partisan political reasons, must be rejected by Frist and the rest of the Republican majority... The threat to disrupt the senate looks more hollow every day... Now is the time to bring this issue to a head. Have the Bolton vote and don't give them time to try to shift the issue in the press back to the filibuster... There will never be a better time.

[Rummyfan]

It is a farce. Enough with the talk and do something already. Take the offensive in the PR fight for one. What the Senate Dems are doing is UNPRECEDENTED. No compromises either. If Senate Dems want the power to choose judicial nominees, let them work to get a Democrat elected President and a majority in the Senate. I swear I will leave the Republicans over this if they strike some kind of wishy-washy mealy-mouthed compromise!

[CharlesWayneCT]

He also suggested that Frist push a previous plan to reduce the number of senators needed to break a filibuster. Although that plan would required 67 senators' agreement, "I don't think that is an insurmountable obstacle for some improvements in the process by which the Senate considers judicial nominees," Reid's letter said. Am I the only one who sees this as an opening? The Frist proposal schedules 4 sets of votes with each succeeding one requiring fewer votes to break cloture, ending with simple majority. I think the total hours spent would be less than the 100 he offered. If Reid is saying he might be able to vote FOR this change, and if you get the "gang of 12" of Lott/Nelson on board, you are only 5 votes from the 67 needed. And if Reid could be quoted as suggesting this vote, then if it FAILS the republicans could point out that they tried it REID'S way and he failed to deliver the votes needed, so now they have to use the constitutional option. Frist's rules change was a good idea, and if we can get a vote on it we should.

[tumblindice]

This could escalate to dog--and even double-dog dares.

[tutstar]

ping

[beaversmom]

in the next four years would be nice

Yes, time to get on with it. I'm sick of all these yappers. That's the one and only thing I like about the Dems, they play hardball whether they are in power or not. There could be 80 Republican Senators and still someone like Hillary would have more balls and gall then all of them combined.

[1Old Pro]

What's this, the 293,049,048 threat that the GOP will stand up and have a spine?

[Cowboy Bob]

I'm getting tired of this cr*p. For 214 years Senate rules have allowed for the "Nuclear Option." Invoking the nuclear option would just be upholding Senate trdition!

[festus]

The'll be ice skating in hell before Frist does anything.