LIVE SENATE THREAD: "Nuclear Wednesday" for judicial nominations: C-span 2 - 9:30 am EST

C-span 2 ^ | May 18, 2005

[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...

[MamaLucci]

LOL!!! You KNOW Leahy is deperate when he utilizes the "Daschle whisper".
It's contemptable.....LOL!

[dfergu7477]

I literally laughed out loud at that one!

[prairiebreeze]

If they are bringing Dobson into this, it's just another sign of their desperation.

[ConservativeMan55]

He went as far as to ask what planet "this person" referring to Dobson, was from.

[mhking]

He's blaming James Dobson now.

Whadda ya expect? In his pathetic little mind, all religion is "eeeeevil..."

[concerned about politics]

Did I just hear him say that they are on God's side

I expected a bolt of lighting to strike him dead !!! I suppose the building has one of those lightning rods to protect demoncrats, though. Darn! They must have already thought of that!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Key item here from the recent Washingtopn Post article I linked:

"Never before has a minority blocked a judicial nominee that has majority support for an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor," Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said in a widely reported December speech.

[Dad yer funny]

Dunno ,... I'm on CSPAN2 and Tony Snow audio and here, BTW , hope onyx is OK, she didn't feel well yesterday

[ken5050]

Just think..as Leaky drones..somewhere deep in a cave in the Pakistani mountains, OBL is watching this via satellite, shaking his head and saying to himself.."Frigging UN-BE-Lieveable...these clowns are kicking our ass?"

[Soul Seeker]

But the Dems are going to reach out to the faith community and win us back. LOL

[Keith]

Narf!

[Bahbah]

Apparently the dems have a limited number of Ben Franklin quotes. By the way, Leaky, there is not a whole lot left of the Republic the founders envisioned.

[maggief]

Yielding last 7 1/2 minutes to Durbin.

[Soul Seeker]

She's ill? wishes she'll be better soon.

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL.

They know how to win friends.

[MamaLucci]

Oh, yea........Durbin's up. Cyanide capsule, anyone?

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

"Tom Harkin (D-IA) "Have the guts to come out and vote up or down….And once and for all, put behind us this filibuster procedure on nominations." (Congressional Record, June 22, 1995, S8861)"

I am lost here. If we say now that the current demonrat filibustering is unprecedented (with the exception of Fortas) then what is Tom Harkin speaking in this quote.
In addition, are not most of the quotes you cite actually concerned with the process the Republicans were using in not advancing their nominees names to the Senate (I believe after they had actually passed Committee)? As such the cited statements do not seem to relevant then to the current filibustering. Admittedly, I see some that do refer to hypothetical filibustering and those would be relevant.

[OXENinFLA]

Oh fark, Durbin up.................Put your boots on, it's about to get deep.............

[mhking]

Oh joy, here's Dick Dastardly back for more...

[Fledermaus]

Democrats are religious bigots. Just like fanatical Islamists!!

I said this yesterday and will say it again...The Dems KNOW they won't be in the majority in the Senate for a long time and even then probably won't have a Dem president. If they did, they'd LOVE to have a 51 vote rule so they could impose their America-hating liberal judges.

They are so phony! Screw 'em.