Posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:39 PM PDT by jern
Announce Filibuster Compromise
I am just now watching the Chrissie Matthews replay, and Lindsay is very proud of his participation!
IF I heard him right, he said that when President Bush submits names, the 14 will get together to discuss them!
What? This same 14 are now a separate little faction of the senate? Like a side senate? How Constitutional is THAT?
The other 86 might as well go on vacation. Idiots.
Frist is out looking for a spine, his tesitcles, and a brain transplant.
I'm not putting my faith in Dewine or Lindsay Graham any more than I believe anything the Democrats tell me. I long ago passed that point. If we had 85 Republicans, there would not be 51 votes for the "nuclear" option, but there aren't even going to be 55 Republicans after '06 and you can blame Dewine, Graham and co. for that, not the Democrats.
LOL! I'm back, but I ought to go have another or maybe something stronger after hearing Lindsay Granham talk to Matthews.
The agreement isn't enforceible anywhere. So it's binding only in a political sense.
Any agreements play out in full votes in the Senate. Side deals that swap votes are not the votes themselves.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Yep, and it's been full since 4:00PM Pacific and he knows it too.
Miller Genuine Draft.
If I'm Bush I let them confirm the ones he belives will pass, than wait for a recess and put the rest of the court.
They already flipped him off, the cabal of Traitors deserve nothing less.
Wait and see - the fight is not over. I think they can still get through!
That's NOT how this works. You just witnessed a coup de tat.
In the link I posted, take a look at #2
The Republican signatories' agreement to oppose cloture reform is contingent (both expressly and as a matter of basic contract principles) on the Democrat signatories' living up to their end of the bargain. The fact that the MOU contemplates that each signatory will use his own discretion in determining whether extraordinary circumstances exist does not mean that Republican signatories will need to defer to a Democrat signatory's determination. On the contrary, it means that a Republican signatory is free to use his own discretion to determine that a Democrat signatory's determination of extraordinary circumstances amounts to a violation of the MOU. And the nomination of any person who elicits fewer Democrat objections than Brown, Pryor, or Owen should not constitute "extraordinary circumstances".
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That's the way I recall Graham interpreted it when he was interviewed on CNN shortly after the announcement..
McCain et al came up with this way of killing any future Thomas or Scalia without having to vote against the nomination -- they can just let Dirty Harry and the 'Rats (or is it Harry and the Dirty 'Rats) filibuster and then say that their hands are tied by the MOU.
Ah, you get it.
see this little group of 14 now believe they run the Senate not only on Judicial nominees but legislation. The 86 either fry them alive now or they can hand over the keys and go home.
Harry Reid is covering his butt with the left wing base. The Democrat leadership are the losers here. The 7 moderate democrats wanted cover and it was given to them. Our side is strengthened in the process.
That's what chafes me too - do we have a separate Senate with 14 self-appointed members in a power grab? Does the fact there are only 14 moderates out of 100 say anything? People vote for results, for their side to win the issues, not for this country-club, barhopping buddy bullshit.
"What? This same 14 are now a separate little faction of the senate?"
We should respect "minority rights", onyx.
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