Posted on 05/18/2005 5:48:45 AM PDT by ken5050
Welcome, all you Freepers, to the continuing C-span soap operas about judicial nominations. "The Guiding SEARCHLIGHT, " "As the SENATE Turns, "One NOMINATION to Live" "GERIATRIC Hospital" (for all you Byrd and Lautenberg fans out there). Follow along with us, as the Dems raise the level of histrionics, bloviation, pontification, and all around bad acting to new highs, er, lows...
Tidbit from WWII area. Coffee was rationed and/or hard to get. My mom said they ground it extra fine hoping to squeeze out a few extra cups.
Go Sessions......!
Sessions calling People From the American Way on their lie about Justice Owens.
My first wife always put an ice cube in her hot coffee to cool it....
During WWII when coffee was rationed, FDR advised Americans to use the coffee grounds twice. I always wondered if he followed his own advice. (He was a dem, you know.)
Fortas was on the Supreme Court of the United States for 3 years, 7 months, 10 days. He resigned from the Court on May 14, 1969.
The Senate was likely averse to elevating Fortas from Associate to Chief Justice. It is questionable if a slim, simple majority would have confirmed his elevation.
Di swinestien said that???? ROTF.....
and he owes his Senate seat tot he fact that the Dems wouldn't report his nomination to be a federal judge out of the SJC comittee..so he went back home and beat them at their own game..
Sessions is my senator...in fact he lives right here in my hometown. I see him at high school baseball games. He IS a really good guy.
His history is almost exactly the same as Bill Pryor's. When he was Atty Gen of Alabama, Bush Sr. (or was it Reagan?) nominated him to the circuit court. The Dems gave him the "deeply held personal beliefs" treatment. They defeated him in the judiciary committee.
Thus, when he was swept in with the GOP majority in 1994, it delicious when he was given a seat on that very committee. We loved it!
Where is Senator Jefferson Smith, when we need him?
Whatever happened to the good ole fashion filibuster?
Start reading the phone book, or poetry,
these people know nothing of tradition.
Delicious irony. Thanks for the story!
"That is what came to my mind!"
ABC news already said that the Dems are going to filibuster. Well they said that the Republicans are going to try for a rules change. That cannot happen without the filibuster so it is a safe assumption they will.
I bought my Mom a one cup, auto turn off pot after I found out she burnt the coffee pot on the gas stove. (She forgot about it.) The coffee temp is perfect, far from "burning hot". I recommend it for every Senior Citizen. (If you can find them)
That is what I thought,thanks for clarifying that point. It is wonderful to see justice prevail.
I've a wireless connection on my laptop. I can take this baby anywhere in the house, even out to the garden.
:-D
We just use a coffe press at out house. Best java ever!
Boy...Dems in Chicago would like that even better...a carton of cigarettes delivered right to the door.
See!? Senators talking about cups 'n saucers do good in the world!
Jeff is a good man!
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