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...
At last. She has come to the floor for a vote. This is better than a good wine.
Damn, wouldn't want to be ya. Buy your folks some cable dude.
Fat Teddy got a smackdown from Brownback. Gotta love that.
Kennedy screwed-up. He didn't object! HA!
HA! HA! HA! I finally saw the Swimmer squirm.
Brownback: Is there any objection? If not, we will move forward.
Kennedy: I reserve the right to object later.
Brownback: You cannot do that. Yes or no, do you object?
Kennedy: Silence with a grumpy look.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Must be a bitch being in the MINORITY! LOL!
Kennedy just went on a tirade and got stuffed by the floor rules. What an ass!
Nominees with majority support should get a vote. That only makes sense BECAUSE the Senates responsibility to advise & consent is a constitutional requirement.
Teddy looks very hungover this morning ...
You didn't ask me, but I watched yesterday and I'm positive tht my assessment that Coleman was masterful, (and don't forget Carl Levin--he was very good in his question period), is correct.
I also want to point out to all that Congress did not call Galloway. They released a report last week that named him and others as recipients of illegal oil allocations and Galloway wanted this appearance. He did not get the full Committee, he got Coleman and Levin and a panel preceding him of investigators laying out the hard cold facts.
Yes, Galloway was entertaining. But he's in trouble now. More than before he blustered his way over here.
Hugs and kisses to Sam Brownback.
I'm at work, blah! Trying to peek in now and then to catch the updates. You guys do a great job for those of us in the cubicles of corporate America!
Frist is uncharacteristically clear, unequivical, and strong. May the Force stay with him.
Inlaws live so far out in the boonies, the only thing available it satellite internet. Crazy.
And so early in the morning!
For such a seasoned Sen. Kennedy should know that there's no such thing as a reserve to object. He was rightly told that by the Chair!
The gentleman from the Congressional Research Service used a powerful analogy here. He said to me, `Senator, you have to think of the Senate as if it were composed of 100 nations, each Senator representing a nation, and each nation has an atomic bomb and can blow up the place any time it wants. And that bomb is a filibuster.'
This is effectively Frist's first presidential campaign speech.
bump!
Thanks for the recap -- Mom was talking and I missed it.
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