Today Show frisky-Frist ping.
Should have read ... McCain ... who will be the first victim, for the second time, to fall off the presidential wanna be band wagon.
Good report, governs. Thanks. Did you happen to see Boxer on the Senate floor yesterday talking about Judge Brown? I learned so much. JB loves rapists and won't protect little girls from them, hates old people and calls them cannibals, thinks too much government isn't good for people, etc. Quite the performance. I couldn't help wondering what Senators with a modicum of intelligence thought of it. Ido not include Biden or Reid in that bunch.
Gee, I wonder why? Maybe because the show would then have to explain what the heck Oil For Food is since I don't believe they've ever done a single segment on it.
And on the subject of judicial noiminees, I don't suppose Lauer asked why the Dems are so afraid of a vote? Nah, of course not.
You're a braver man than I, glgb, for watchin' this dreck. Thanks again for the thread!
I hope the hammer falls today.
I am tired of waiting.
"Senators might occasionally use an argument based on competence, but nowadays it's all about ideology," he admitted, citing the Bork case, in which of course perhaps the most qualified Supreme Court nominee in decades was turned down."
rat dogma.
If Senator Frist or any other elected Republicans or staffers are monitoring FR, tell Skerry, Byrd Kennedy and Schumer this is the constitutional way to appoint judges. Up or down votes on every single judicial picks of our President. End the filibuster TODAY.
Bump for later.
I have a hard time believing Frist would bring it up w/out the requistie votes...
But of course, he hasn't brought it up yet, so maybe he doesn't have the votes.
If our prayers are answered and the Republicans succeed with the Constitutional option vote, they ought to tie this directly to the defeat of Bork with their comments to the news media. Since Americans have the attention/retention span of an emaciated gnat, every Republican's comment ought to remind the media that this is the fruit of the evil seed planted by the Rats when they gleefully "borked" that well-qualified jurist. The Rats started it, and the Republicans should finish it with this vote.
For once Chrissy is right. McCain is going to dig his own grave with this vote.
If we win the vote, he outs himself not as a 'Republican Maverick' but an imposter. His credibility as a Republican is shot. All the other RINO's that vote with us will have more influence than he.
If we lose the vote, McCain still loses. He'll be blame for leading this RINO revolt.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I know we are all tired of the same old cup-and-saucer metaphor for the House and Senate, where the House is the cup where all the hot tea is contained and the Senate is the saucer that allows the tea to cool to the point where it can be sipped. Of course, people today are so unfamiliar with the mechanics of drinking tea that it really doesn't make sense to most peole anyway.
But, nevertheless, I will forge on and extend the metaphor past the point of all reason. IMHO, the House is the Cup, the Senate is the Saucer, and the Judiciary is the Tea Tray.
If you will indulge me, please... The Executive Branch is, by nature, the most responsive body of government. It is completely re-elected every four years, and thus has to hue to the passions of the day. Similarly, the House is the more responsive body of the Legislature, since it can change rapidly if it is out of step with the electorate, as in 1994.
The Senate, on the other hand, does not change all at once, and the terms are longer, so it is much less responsive to the passions of the moment. It does, by construction, take the longer view, since it can only change gradually.
The Judiciary is the extreme example of this mechanism. Since the terms are unlimited, and the make-up the Judiciary can only change very slowly, it is the great mass that cannot be moved quickly, if at all. It is, by design, a stable force, that responds to changing trends over generations, not over a course of two or four years.
So to look at what forces are responsible for the gradual change of the Judiciary today, you have to look at the broad trends that have been happening in the country in the last twenty-five to thirty years. What are the broad social trends that are pushing this last, most reisistant, branch of government in a new direction?
The answer, of course, lies in the issues that aroused such passion in the 1970s and 1980s. Abortion and affirmative action, Roe and Bakke: These are the events that triggered the groundswell that, at last, will overturn the prevailing wisdom of the court. Most people can't see it, because it happens over a such long period of time, but these two decisions made the revolutionary change we are in the middle of today inevitable.
McCain . . . who just might be one of Frist's major opponents for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination
Riiiight.
Lifting the fog of deception in the battle for man's mind relegates Matthews to the ash heap of history. Life goes on buttressed by freedom buttressed by truth.
Assuming he does. A very big assumption given his Party's past record and his own ideology.
I wrote e-mails encouraging both Virginia senators (Warner and Allen) to support the "constitutional option." I heard Senator Warner was wavering. Senator Allen supports going "nuclear" and sent back a nice e-mail saying so.
I hope Virginia's senators will act in concert and not cancel out each other. If Warner doesn't support the Constitution, it's time for him to go.
Did you see the segemnt where they had that Hybrid car driving from point A to point B while they were being followed by some Evil SUVs?
I guess its for some comparison they're doing?
Anyway, it was hilarious. As they were talking to the driver by phone, live on the TV, he was saying how much gas he's saving, blah,blah,blah. The funny part was they showed him driving down the freeway and school buses were passing him! He couldn't keep up!