A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos): 5.13.05

Netscape, White House

[MJY1288]

It's gonna take a while here in MD. The RATS have the majority in the State Legislature and they have been laying land mines for Ehrlich since day one. One thing about Ehrlich I like is his sharp responses to any attacks by the Democrats. He doesn't shy away from getting down in the mud with them. But I agree, Steele is the Man. I was extremely impressed with Steele at the GOP Convention last year. I think he has an extremely bright future ahead of him

[lizma]

his second choice will be Alan Keyes :-)

That would be a riot! Somewhere in this mix Bourke should be nominated for something. It's time to take a page from the lib's "in your face" book.

Night. Great talkin to you. Love your ideas.

[MJY1288]

I'm not sure about that, but if my memory serves me correctly, I could swear that a Senator can only block a nominee from a confirmation hearing, and no power to block the nominee once he or she is moved out of Committee and onto the Senate Floor

[MJY1288]

Nite Lizma, back atcha

[MJY1288]

The way I remember this Senate blocking move being described was in this fashion..... "Any Senator has the right to block a Nominee for Consideration"

"Consideration" takes place in the Confirmation hearing

[MJY1288]

DrDeb, See post #185 and tell me if that makes any sense!

I can't find my Congressional handbook :-(

[Bonaparte]

He said her security, which appeared to consist of about 6 secret service, was pretty relaxed. He'd given his lanyard to another reporter that day, so her kid could use it for her house key. This meant he had to carry his press creds in his coat pocket where they didn't show. He was hassled about wearing them where they would show, agreed to do that, then just put them back in his pocket and had a nice chat with Laura. He said she was amused, very genuine, very gracious. If his editor runs his piece, I'll post that.

[STARWISE]

Finally here -- thanks for your hard work, Mike .. you're one loyal trooper.

My Mom has a wave kinda like Laura's -- it's a family joke with my sons, who always kid her in a loving way and wave good-bye like she does -- with an unusual formation of fingers .. with her bent little finger sticking up a bit. She's had that little deformity since birth, and I always think of her when I see Laura's wave.

You rang snugs????

BTW, I have literally been screaming at the dang TV most of day -- first due to the repetition on all channels about that Wendy's "mystery" found in the food .. jEEz .. how many times a day do they have to talk about it?? And -- Dingy Harry and his despicable comments about a judicial nominee's FBI file .. just as low as you can get, when the nominee cannot speak to any comments. I predict the Rats are riding for an implosion, and I can't wait. Delay was right this week: they have NO CLASS!

In case some of you haven't seen this .. regarding the importance of the dynamic occurring in the Senate....this, from an earlier thread this week:

"(received) from the Center for Reclaiming America (e-mail), and if you can't call them all, please at least call one or two.

If you can't call them, at least e-mail them (but calling is more effective).THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. PLEASE make that call!

The Center has identified six key senators whose votes may well decide the fate of the filibuster rules change. We are asking all member of our online team to contact these individual senators, urging each to FULLY SUPPORT THE FILIBUSTERING RULES CHANGE.

Even if none of these six senators is your own senator, please invest the time needed to call each right now.

Here are their names and contact information:

Sen. Susan Collins (ME) 202-224-2523
Sen. Lamar Alexander (TN) 202-224-4944
Sen. Trent Lott (MS) 202-224-6253
Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) 202-224-5344
Sen. Chuck Hagel (NE) 202-224-4224
Sen. John Warner (VA) 202-224-2023

Here is the toll-free number to reach all of them:

==>877-762-8762

I hope all of you call these senators, even if they're not your own, and tell them to maintain party unity and demand up/down votes for judges and support the fillibuster, if necessary. I've called Snowe, Alexander, Hagel, Collins, Warner . .. Lott's was always busy. There're probably more wimps like Chaffee and McCain I should be calling too .. wondering who we can count on anymore. I called Voinovich too -- gave his assistant some strong rebuke for his grandstanding and disloyalty.

Gee, snugs -- now I'm spent and my throat is scratchy -- might have to borrow your meds .. ;)

Oh .. Poppy's out there today, too, delivering the commencement address at Rice Univ. today. Caption says he paused a bit after his speech. He had gotten choked up when he was speaking about his grandson, who graduated from there last year. Hope he's OK.

[MJY1288]

Thanks for that report, looking forward to the next if his piece is published

[MJY1288]

Your Welcome STARWISE, I consider it an honor to post this thread

[MJY1288]

OK, I have spent the last two hours looking into this. A Nominee can be blocked by a particular Senator by way of "Personal Privilege", The Nominee must reside in the Senators home State. John Bolton was born in Baltimore, MD and has been a resident of Washington D.C. for many years. Therefore Barbara Boxer has no possible way to block his vote on the Senate Floor.

Since the District of Columbia has no representation in the Senate, The implementation of "Personal Privilege" is moot

[MJY1288]

I also looked into the rules of consideration, and as far as I can figure, once the nominee is scheduled for consideration in the proper Committee, a Senator has to invoke "Personal Privilege" before that nominee starts the "Consideration" process in the appropriate Committee by way of the scheduled hearing. Once the hearing starts, "Personal Privilege" is not an option.

As we speak, Leahy and Stabenow have blocked a nominee for the Judiciary through "Personal Privilege" and the Brit Hume's show Special Report said just tonight that the two Senators were blocking the nomination from the Committee hearing

[texasflower]

I've seen a picture of you and you look just darling my dear!

Tammy

[MJY1288]

Good Evening texasflower, I want you to know that I was on my best behavior tonight, we had us a little disturbance on this thread, and I was able to supress my rough and tumble side :-)

[texasflower]

Yes, I saw that my friend. I got kinda tickled at that. :-)

I have been studying very carefully the posts you have made about the Senate. That's the Mike I love! I have learned more from your posts over the past year and a half than from any other poster.

Thanks for the education!

Tammy

[snugs]

My geography is not great but could it have been the VP?

http://www.dailyworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050513/NEWS01/50513001/1002

[snugs]

How do you check your speed when I was dial up I could click on the icon in the task bar and that would tell me but I cannot see any icon now.

Is there a site you can go to to check it?

[radiohead]

Hey Snugs, just bumping in to say hello. Why are you up at this hour?

Oh wait, is it 9 am or later in England? Maybe I should ask myself why I am still up. : )

[snugs]

Nice one I like it where are you and what time is it for you, I supsect you will have gone to bed now though LOL

[MJY1288]

Go to toast.net and click on test