Kennedy will be soused by 4:30p. Republicans should make a call for breathalyzers.
I don't mind if the Democrats filibuster anything, as long as it is done as it was meant to be done. The majority party sits quietly for as long as it takes the minority party to talk themselves out of their position and make fools of themselves.
Another friendly reminder.......
57% of Americans say that "Senate rules should be changed so that a vote must be taken on every person the President nominates to become a judge." That's unchanged from two weeks ago.
Maybe we ought to tell our U.S. senators about this poll, and also tell those "swing" senators.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2005/Judicial%20Nominations--May%2014.htm
Rush Limbaugh said that senators are wavering back and forth, partly because of pressure from the public - our phone calls, folks. Let's get more phone calls and/or e-mails than the other side does.
Even if none of these WAVERING senators is your own senator,
please call 'em, anyway.
The last I heard the key GOP Senators are John Sununu (NH), Collins (ME), DeWine (OH), Hagel (NE), Murkowski, Specter (PA), and Warner (VA). Frist can afford to lose only two, because McCain, Chafee, and Snowe have declined to end the judicial filibusters.
We can call toll-free at 877-762-8762 .
Fax or e-mail info can be found here (but phone calls are more effective):
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
Urge each to FULLY SUPPORT THE FILIBUSTERING
RULES CHANGE.
Well, PMSNBC screwed up again.
"...for judicial nominees to be voted out of committee".
Get it right, boneheads!
Maybe we could slip Harry Reid a little Nyquil in his diet pepsi.
It's about time we did a few all nighters on this.
This whole charade is past stupid now! You're telling me that so-called adults can't come to an agreement without resorting to another photo op stunt? Didn't they do this a couple of months ago? You know hauling mattresses in while cameras were rolling. Only never to use them once the cameras were turned off. The entire senate leaderhsip should be squarely kicked in the ass for wasting so much time pandering and threatening before the cameras. I say thrown them all out into the street and I'm not talking about the mattresses.
Exactly. NOW is the time. Frist will be foolish is he waits for a SC justice appointment to make the rules change.
Question did the Goauld somehow taken over Frist???
They may wait until some moment further in out in time when they think some other - and unrelated - media assault on the GOP has strengthened their hand.
They do not want to do it year if at all possible before any Supreme Court fight.
They evidently think that it is in their advantage to push the fight closer to the midterms.
This seems odd to me - do they have some other "scandals" up their sleeves.
Frist shoudlreally stop worrying about what the media does and somehow just force the issue. It will make a SCOTUS fight that much easier to win.
The public that want Conservative judges will remember in 06 in the GOP did the rightnthing and the so called "moderates" will have forgotten about it.
Next year, I imagine, Bush will spring tax reform on the Congress and that will be the big issue.
The GOP in the Senate should listen to their constituencies and forget about their "National Posture" as a body, a party or as individuals. They are just fooling themselves that they can get any advantage for anyone by posing as "moderates."\
Had the tables been turned, the Rats would ave already nuked the filibuster months ago, and they would certainly do it if Hillie was in the WH nad they could get 51 votes.
They are just making matter worse for themselves by all of this dithering. Act now and the voters will forgive and mostly forget, provided they get good judges. There is no sign that the general public buy this notion that he Democrats are in the "mainstream" and the GOP is not, nor do we seem to see that the demonization of the "Christian Right" is gaining any traction nanywhere but in the hard core left.
The GOP leadership spends too much time in the beltway. They need to go back home and listen to the voters that put them in office.
He should have MANDATED 100 hours of debate.
Make the dems stand at the podium and talk 24/7.
Don't be surprised if Sheets Byrd has a play-for-sympathy medical condition happen at 1:00am.
MSM: "Those insensitive republicans keeping a senior citizen up at all hours of the night while pushing their partisan agenda".
Frist should have DEMANED that if the 'Rats wanted to filibuster that they would HAVE TO BE THERE 24/7 to filibuster!!!
that would have ended this nonsense YEARS AGO!!!
I'll pledge $100.00 to any opponent of a RINO that votes with the Rats on judicial filibusters!
The Senate pulling an all nighter..ha ha.. They are going to cut into teddy kennedys drinking time..
First should extend that to an all-weeker, or an all-monther if necessary to demonstrate to the American public the kind of lunatics that have shanghied the Democrat Party.
But then we DO have a two Party system. One Party has no brain or morals and the other Party has no testacles or backbone.