Rats Claim Two More Nominees to be Torpedoed in Filibuster Deal

Monday, May 23, 2005 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

In Tuesday's edition of The New York Times, unnamed Democrats claim that two more of President Bush's nominees will be torpedoed as part of an unwritten codicile to the announced bipartisan agreement by 14 senators on filibustered judicial nominees.

The written agreement singled out the nominations of Myers and Saad as not being guaranteed an up or down vote on the Senate floor.

From The New York Times comes this signal of further betrayal: "Democratic officials said an unwritten aspect of the pact is that two nominees not named in the deal - Brett Kavanaugh and William J. Haynes - would not be confirmed and would be turned aside either at the committee level or on the floor."

[kristinn]

I know it's The New York Times, and it's unnamed sources being quoted. But with tonight's sacrifice of principal for comity, anything is possible. I can even imagine copies of the Constitution being flushed down the Senate toilets.

[BurbankErnie]

Don't be surprised when the "Maverick" seven Vote against Owen and Brown. The deal that was made is much worse then we know.

[IncPen]

I can even imagine copies of the Constitution being flushed down the Senate toilets

Imagine what the Muslim street will think!

[Skip1]

Do you know which of the 7 Republicans Senators are Pro-Choice?

[Skip1]

Do you know which of the 7 Republicans Senators are Pro-Choice?

[Skip1]

Do you know which of the 7 Republicans Senators are Pro-Choice?

[Bush 100 Percent]

Am I the only one to notice that Graham and DeWine are ON the Judiciary Committee?

The foxes are in the hen house.

[MainFrame65]

I want to kick these senators butts so hard that they would never again "sit down together". The business of the senate is irrelevant - they are there to do the business of the Country, and their fun little club is nothing but a ripoff of the people that elected them.

[Skip1]

Sorry for the repeats

[TBP]

The written agreement singled out the nominations of Myers and Saad as not being guaranteed an up or down vote on the Senate floor.

Then use Saad's nomination to establish the constitutional option. It has to be done sometime.

[fooman]

Bob Inglis.

[kristinn]

John McCain, Robert Byrd, John Warner, Mary Landrieu, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Ben Nelson, Mike Dewine, Lindsay Graham, Lincoln Chafee, Daniel Inouye; Ken Salazar, Pryor, Lieberman.

[fooman]

Frist needs to have the vote.

Recess Bork NOW!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I can even imagine copies of the Constitution being flushed down the Senate toilets.

izzatso? I can imagine 100,000 FReepers working furiously to flush a half dozen RINO SENATORS down the election toilet, next election....

[Dan from Michigan]

Saad being tossed aside is a favor to Carl Lenin.

[Peach]

Just because the RINOs are going to allow a vote doesn't mean they will vote for those nominees. We've been skunked by our own party members.

[FormerLib]

If this deal does through, then I will vote Democrat in 2006. At least I'll know what I'm voting for! Clearly, I've been mistaken as of late.

[Williams]

This is really offensive. The president's nominees are being sacrificed to uphold what? The "principle" that other nominees can be blocked, too?

My forlorn hope is that the White House objects to this deal.

[prognostigaator]

From another Freeper:

BUSH CANNOT PERMIT THIS TO STAND. If need be, he must choose July 4th as the line on the sand. Bush must tell the Senate: "You will allow an up or down vote on EVERY nominee by July 4th, or on that Independence Day, I shall recess appoint whomever is fillibustered, and take my fight to the people, and against the obstructionists, in the midterm elections"

Sounds good to me.......

[jess35]

That was my first thought. What if Frist agreed...and the 7 sellouts vote against? You know that every single nominee is going to be "extreme" or "dangerous to democracy". We're right back where we started but with 7 nimrods who don't realize they've been sold a defective product.