Posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:39 PM PDT by jern
Announce Filibuster Compromise
We still don't know whether the moderate Democrats mean it when they say they will not filbuster except in "extraordinary" circumstances. (I suspect some of them mean it) If they are really saying that they don't want to use filbusters against Judicial Nominees-- then the Republicans get the judges they want. If they are lying, then we will be free to invoke the Nuclear Option. What the media says about it is not the issue anymore, everyone that matters knows they are liberals.
No, what will be really interesting is if they get 49.
Where do I send my "Stop McCain Now" campaign check?
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http://www.clubforgrowth.org/why.php
They do. They decide who will be called "Mr. Chairman" for the next two years.
Again, get real. Wrath from this WH? The same WH that has never vetoed anything and signed McCain-Feingold into law?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Go hold hand with a Saudi.
Imo, you get a prize for getting the big picture. My sentiments exactly. I about hurled when I heard one of them say "This is all based on trust."
Do these people learn nothing, absolutely NOTHING from the past?
P.S. When Durbin is giddy with glee and Schumer looks the cat that ate the canary, you know it's a crappy deal.
"we commit to oppose the rules changes in the 109th Congress...any amendment to or interpretation of the Rules of the Senate that would force a vote on a judicial nomination by means other than unanimous consent or Rule XXII."
Worth repeating.
You don't understand squat. You are dead wrong. Members of the President's party will not make any deal with the President's appointments without at least informing the White House. If they did it blind-sighting the White House, they would permanently face the wrath of the President. Politics could be your mother's milk, but you are probably lactose intollerant.
We'll see.
No definitions.
They can say they voted for those judges in exchange for the deal - nothing more.
I don't get it either. I kinda liked the guy when he was in the house.
In the Senate the neuter the republican i guess.....
Why? You wouldn't know one anyway.
...go GOODFELLAS? Or was it THE UNTOUCHABLES?
Nobody said (certainly not the Dems) that the three judges for whom cloture will be voted are not extreme in every sense of the word. The Dems agreed to cloture for these three nutters in exchange for taking the nuke option off the table for this term of Congress. It sets no precedent whatsoever for who is deemed extreme, or what is an extraordinary circumstance, and certainly does not close the door to ideology being used as an extraordinary circumstance
This deal is a load of cr@!` It is not compromise, but capitulation. And I say that as somebody who did agree that a certain form of compromise was acceptable. But this comrpomise treats a couple of nominees, Saad and Myers, as pawns. It makes them not people, but expendable objects. And that is unconscionable. When BOTH of those men were nominated, years ago, there was no reason to believe they would be denied up-or-down votes. Their expectations, based on 214 years of history, were that they would be afforded up or down votes. I’ve seen, first-hand, the torment that judicial nominees go through. They don’t deserve to be treated like expendable pawns. That’s why ANY agreement that failed to afford fair votes for all the already pending nominees is not a compromise but a sell-out. Now, if the deal had been fair votes for all pending nominees, PLUS filibusters only in “extraordinary circumstances” for FUTURE nominees, then anybody who is asked to have his/her name submitted would know in advance what he is getting into. Everybody would understand the rules going in, and, while not optimal (optimal is killing all filibusters), it would have been better than an attempt that fails (fail because of gutless GOP senators) to kill all filibusters. I should be rejoicing right now because Bill Pryor, the guy I’ve most championed, will get a fair vote. But my heart goes out to Saad and especially Myers — Myers, because I see no way that he would fail to get 50 votes plus Cheney if he actually was afforded a fair chance. (more…)
Can you f*cking believe this?
I don't like this deal, but I think you are right about this. If the GOP doesn't think it is an EC, the deal is off the table.
Now, what are the odds the RINOs will decide it isn't an EC? Slim to none, and Slim just left town. We've been stabbed in the back. Again.
The only people I feel like donating to are the opponents of the RINO's.
Otherwise, my checkbook is closed.
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