Posted on 05/24/2005 5:44:11 AM PDT by jdsteel
Before we explode in disgust about the RINO defectors, please consider this: IF the nominated judges get an up or down vote, we win. If a nominated judge gets blocked by filibuster again, we can still "pull the trigger" on the constitutional option...this time with "betrayed and outraged moderates" leading the way. As much as I want to just respond to this emotionally, I am trying to show patience to see how this pans out over the next month. I also am looking forward to seeing how the DUmmies seeth as judges are nominated. So, please, "hold your powder" but keep your eye on the target.
I congratulate you on not being put to sleep by the less than honest rhetoric of those present at the press conference on the "compromise" yesterday. I re-registered some months ago, and all the activity since has only proven that I made the right decision. After more than 40 years as a Republican, I am now no longer. We need a true conservative leader ... of which I see none.
They'll be back, but I agree that will depend entirely on the actual outcome of this fiasco.
I'd like to see each and every one of these snakes punished immediately and later at the polls. But meantime, we have work to do, and like it or not, we need these SOBs.
Sorry, but Ace Mccain has shot down another plane - the RNC plane. All are dead to me.
(all or none!)
I think the EXTREME meaning is for the moderates to decide. Like Pryor and Nelson. This was also a loss for the democrat liberals like Leahy, Shummer, and Kennedy.
There comes a time when even the driest powder is useless.
You do it. I'm plum wore out.
Names, please. I want names...
Plus, I would love to see Janice R Brown nominated to the Supreme Court, and there is no way in H*** that the Dems could filibuster her again.
If things keep going the way they are, there is a really good possibility there will be a third party option, which will result in a Democrat victory, thereby hastening the second "Civil War".
Why is that?
They would have to admit they were fools to agree to the deal in the first place.
Yep. And we all know the ego of the average RINO will keep them from nuking the donks because nuking the donks would be an admission to stupidity. The RINOS must go. We must vote them out.
Another loss for those of us who worked hard to get Republican majorities in Congress. This Republican will probably give up completely on the political process - it doesn't work for the ordinary citizen.
"Getting the up or down vote is the target in this issue. We get that, and still have the constitutional option in our holster, I'm satisfied."
You are fooling yourself. The only way a Bush SCOTUS nominee will see a vote is if he/she is a moderate who supports abortion.
I can't believe ya'll are falling for this.
Lots of people fell for the false assertion, "Frist has the nuclear trigger, and he's gonna USE IT!" Well, he'll use it if he has to, but he CAN'T use it if the Senate is voting on the nominees, just as it is supposed to do.
The DEM tactic of refusing to vote is parliamentary and Constitutional misbehavior. It is misbehavior that needs to be corrected. But the misbehavior has to be there in order to correct it.
We don't correct our children when they are behaving. We correct them when they are misbehaving.
"So we're going to get Saad and Myers?"
I think we will. There was nothing in the agreement to dismiss them. Reid was saying they will not be confirmed but its not up to him. Its up to people like Pryor and Nelson. Them saying that Saad and Myers won't get a vote is spin. Its up to the justice comittee whether to send them to the floor for a vote.
I don't know if the "moderates" have thought this far ahead or not, but if the three judges who will get a vote are ultimately confirmed, it seems that the "extraordinary circumstances" threshold (imaginary as it may be with the dems) has just been substantially heightened. If these 3 judges were so bad as to cause a filibuster, but now do not create "extraordinary circumstances" it is hard to see how any of the others would do so. If any of them are filibustered, the constitutional option, it seems to me, is back on the table.
All that being said, I would have prefered to proceed with the constitutional option, but apparently some on (or near) the right have gone soft.
Nah, just standing out of the way while you and millions of others continue to get pi**ed on.
Enjoy the shower.
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