south carolina can't do better than this little butt-kissin goober ?
Posted on 05/24/2005 2:46:51 AM PDT by Liz
The real winner in the Senate judge deal could be President Bush — because it opens the way for Congress to finally start getting things done.
Right after the deal was unveiled, Democrats were visibly relieved while Republican conservatives were livid, fuming about a "cave" by centrists led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Talk radio and conservative bloggers went wild.
Why? Because the odds were that if push came to shove, Republicans would have had the votes to kill all filibusters of judicial nominees and humiliate Democratic leaders.
No wonder Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was cheering, even though the deal guarantees confirmation of jurists Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owens and William Pryor — all of whom he's blasted as unacceptable extremists.
"Armageddon has been averted, and thank God," said Schumer, well aware that Democrats could have come off much worse.
That's why conservative Republican activists in the key states of Iowa and New Hampshire are already vowing revenge against McCain if he runs for president in 2008. But the White House put on a positive spin — after all, Bush will now get three of his top-priority appeals court judges confirmed.
And, if the Senate had come to what Democrats called "the nuclear option" — a vote to strip them of filibuster power over judges — all hope for cooperation in the Senate would be over.
Now the success of the judge deal could encourage centrist Democrats — perhaps Sens. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.) — to start working toward compromise on other issues, as Bush has been hoping.
A Democratic staffer predicted one result will be the confirmation of Bush's controversial nominee for U.N. ambassador, John Bolton "No one is going to want to filibuster him now," the staffer conceded.
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Good!
:-)
Well, we'll see, won't we?
I want to punish that little twit Lindsey Graham more.
congress getting things done = more spending and bigger deficit
Yeah, I'm trying......any better for you?
I think that the image of the press conference that will stick with me longest was when McCain slathered his lips all over the racist bigot democrat Byrd's a$$. When the first George Bush reneged on his "read my lips" position I had a feeling in my gut like a haymaker had landed right then and there that he would not be elected. I have the same type of feeling about Republicans in general after watching the miserable despicable McSwine (and Graham). Beyond that, Frist needs to go for even countenancing such a deal.
south carolina can't do better than this little butt-kissin goober ?
Yes -- I would have liked it better if they had shut the whole mess down for a while. Or perhaps they could all go to Washington, D.C., and sleep for four years? It would be less dangerous to our Constitution.
Carolyn
The usual suspects......
Graham was on one of the cable shows last night, saying he believed Republicans and Democrats would be able to come together on issues like Social Security now because of this deal on judicial nominations. What a naive son of a gun.
(Yawn) So what else is new?
why don't the idiots at newsweek do an article about the US constitution being flushed down the toilet ?
McCain needs to go. He is a disruptive force in the party. You can't tell me that without McCain, those other weenies would have had enough nerve to do this.
Worse than naive. I hope Graham's political future is over. I don't think I've ever been more angry about a political cave than I am this one. All of that self-congratulation made me sick. When you have Reid and Schumer crowing, you know you lost in bigger ways than you yet know.
Why is it that I keep seeing Lucy pull the football away from Charlie Brown (just before he kicks it)...again?
And, if the Senate had come to what Democrats called "the nuclear option" — a vote to strip them of filibuster power over judges — all hope for cooperation in the Senate would be over.
The only hope of cooperation was the hope that the seven
dwarves would cooperate with their democrat handlers.
Now we will see real obstruction from the democrats.
And when the shoe is on the other foot?
The democrats will act so fast to change the rule it will
make pubbie heads spin.
McCain and the others must be defeated and in as humiliating
a defeat as possible.
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