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...
Speaking of which- I wish they wouldn't try to cram so many guests in their hour timeslot- they're always saying "sorry, but we're out of time". Sheesh- just have a couple of guests and have a good discussion!
Every night, he says touche!!
Reply of presser, Reid and Pelosi.
"Give him hell, Harry!"
Conviction for impeachment (2/3rd of members present); override presidential veto (2/3rd of HOuse, 2/3rds of Senate);concur with treaties made by the President (2/3rd of Senators present); Constitutional amendments (2/3rds of both houses).
Darth Vader, LOL.
Well, remember the famous words of Lugar during the famous FRC meeting to vote Bolton out of committee, when Biden asked for a few more weeks and then they would vote, Lugar said "We will just have to trust each other"---
and NOW, Boxer has a hold on his vote!!!
Uh, Darth Vader? This guy is an idiot.
Another Dim yells, "Tell the truth!"
(Thanks asking a lot.)
Reid- "choose their partisan interest or the people's interest"? I do not believe they (dems) know the people's interests- or they simply believe their interest are the people's- arrogant...
Yep...you are correct. I couldn't find anything on legislation in Article I. Supermajority is only discussed in Article II.
Don't know where I got that impression.
thanks = that's
95% again? Their way or the highway? Hah! That would be the liberal's cry to arms...
And a freakin' LIAR! LIAR LIAR LIAR!!!
What a MORON!
He has NO FACTS, just LIES and rhetoric.
Uh-oh, I don't trust Graham...
Reid speech on c-span right now.
From 1789 to 1806, a simple majority vote of Senators would move the question. From 1806 to 1917, there was no method to force the vote over the objection of a single Senator. From 1917 to sometime in the 1970's, cloture required 2/3rds of members present, and was changed to its present 2/5ths of elected Senators.
Which makes another argument. The hurdle for approving nominees is better what the Constitution implies (simple majority), not what the Senate says it is "today," which hurdle may change "tomorrow."
No cable channel is carrying his most important speech, I see.
And he sees what that got him. I am just speculating, but the things the dems have done and continue to do have been so rotten and duplicitous that I think have really riled some of our guys. Nobody likes to be played for a fool.
Neither do I.
What the heck does gas prices, healthcare cost, blah, blah, blah have to do with voting up and down on JUDGES?
This guy is more useless than dog crap.
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