Posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:39 PM PDT by jern
Announce Filibuster Compromise
Read the deal.
http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/compromise.pdf
Especially Part II.B. Seems like a firm committment to oppose the constitutional option - regardless.
The RINOs just sold out their party for NOTHING.
Here's the analogy folks: You own a house. You paid for the house with your own hard earned dollars. One day some liberal squatter shows up and demands that you give him your house. You say "get the h3ll out of here loser" and tell him to get lost.
Then your wife comes while you're away at work and signs over half of your house to this idiot because "we have to compromise". Nevermind that the house belonged to you, nevermind that he had NO LEGAL LEG TO STAND ON, nevermind that you could have kept YOUR ENTIRE HOUSE without any doubt.
THE RINOS JUST SOLD US OUT.
The GOP can kiss my ass goodbye. They want to be steamrolled by the minority party and a few moonbat effete "moderate" RINOs? Then let 'em have at it.
A whole lot of conservative votes in '06!
The 'Rats can now filibuster all but THREE nominees to the Circuit Court. If they filibuster EVERY SINGLE NOMINEE after that, they have the right to do so, because the interpretation of "extraordinary" is up to each individual Senator. Even in that case, the clear language in Part "B" forbids the 14 from changes the Rules or any interpretations.
It's a total disaster.
Bingo!
But it would not surprise me if we lose Owen or Pryor. I think Pryor is the most likely target.
I think the democrats would like to to slap the face of Bush for going against them with the recess appointment.
The other two already have enough floor votes to pass.
I'm not sure about Pryor especially if the rhino's agreed to it in the meeting.
They could always say he just didn't have the floor votes. I think that's why he was picked as one of the three, to send a payback message to Bush and the NRA.
The Dems hate him because of the NRA and his super strong second amendment stand.
I think there where others that had more than the fifty votes needed to pass but the Dems may have picked him to slap our face.
I am sick of having to choose the Pubbies as the lesser of two evils.
At least liberals know they can count on their party.
It will be portrayed as a loss by us in the main stream media.
AND this time I think they may be right.
The Republicans in the Senate are about as useful as teats on a boar hog.
I'm not angry (as much) about the judges. I am angry that a party with 55 seats got jobbed like this. It is less about the matter at hand, as important as it is, than the freaking majority party has to beg to get anything done in the body that they control.
The RINO Senators chose getting along in the cloakroom over the party and the nation.
I do. I remember. I kinda liked him before, but he's been acting like some pompous bigshot for quite awhile now. I can't stand him anymore.
What would you have done differently? Who would you have named as the Republican leader?
We did NOT "end the filibuster" in any way, shape, manner, or form.
There is NO proof that we are going to get the three judges passed. WE GOT AN UP OR DOWN VOTE; THAT'S IT!
Nope, the damned Dems do NOT have to "prove" a damned thing. All they have to do is claim that someone is "extreme".
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh
Forgive my ignorance, but why? What makes this agreement between just a small number of Senators binding?
AP NEWS reporting:
Republicans, moving quickly, said they would seek to confirm Owen as early as Tuesday, with other cleared nominees to follow quickly.
Even so, Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., noted he had not been a party to the deal, which fell short of his stated goal of winning yes-or-no votes on each of Bush's nominees. "It has some good news and it has some disappointing news and it will require careful monitoring," he said.
Well, then, in your great wisdom, who could?
At least one of the 7 said that he would have voted to nuke tomorrow if it came to that. Might be full of it but that's what he said at the press conference...
There are no men any longer.
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