Posted on 05/28/2005 1:32:29 PM PDT by echoBoomer
I hear you and don't necessarily disagree, but Ted will never be able to damage the conservative cause as much as a political insider with and additional six sellouts in his pocket.
Hillary with Mclaim as her Veep will run against a Republican Metro-sexual.. who cares which one.. They are just cross dressing democrats anyway..
Pure BS.
A sobering statistic, over 8 years in office, President William Jefferson Clinton nominated 440 judges to the federal judiciary with lifetime appointments.
The average age of a Clinton appointee was 51 which means most of them will be on the bench for the next 20-25 years.
You may want to look into that.
...think of a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate majority...
I do not have to think about it...I lived through it for decades.
The mere presence of the filibuster option keeps for judicial appointments... IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
McCain and the other 6 traitor need to get bounced from every committee they sit on.
A coach would bench a basketball player for trying to undermine his authority.
They need to be shown that actions have consequences.
They need to be shunned.
Yes. In the same way that Petain was the Nazi's favourite Frenchman.
Perhaps those party to this "deal" should be called "Vichy Republicans" from now on.
Regards, Ivan
And you think that in that situation the Democratic Senate would actually hesitate more than a minute before changing the rules to invalidate judicial filibusters? If so, you're extremely naive.
I wasn't aware that he'd ever stopped.
He is a double striped politician who is a bloviating braggart and is "looking out for number one" only!
He is repulsive and is not to be believed!
True.
The anti-Zell.
'A sobering statistic, over 8 years in office, President William Jefferson Clinton nominated 440 judges to the federal judiciary with lifetime appointments.
The average age of a Clinton appointee was 51 which means most of them will be on the bench for the next 20-25 years."
oh come on.... that's purely a coincidence..../sarcasm
Speaking as a moderate Republican I'd support Mccain in the primaries if I knew he had the best chance of defeating Hillary but ONLY if the this compromise results in the Democrats stopping the filibusters.
If not I'll just say to hell with it and back a conservative candidate just out of principle not matter what it means in the general election.
Mccain just better sure the Democrats don't get away with filibustering federal judicial nominees if he wants any chance - otherwise he can take a long walk on a short pier.
This article proves once and for all what I always suspected: Craig Crawford leans to the left an is full of shit!!
McCain didn't "forge anything". He joined 7 Democrats to thwart his own party. That doesn't take political smarts or courage.
When the rolls are reversed and the Republicans try to filibuster a Socialist Democratic nominee, the Democrats will exercise the Nuclear option in a heart beat. The press would not cover it and it would not make more than a handful of newscasts or newspapers. 98 percent of the population would not even know the Democrats did it.
The Republicans will never fillibuster even the most liberal apointee to the federal bench, they never have and they never will. When Democrats controlled the Senate and Clinton was in office, his appointees had nearly a hundred percent approval rate, while W's now is below sixty percent in the same circumstances.
All we've done is create a double standard for conservative versus libers nominations to the appeals courts (which taken all together are more influential the the Supreme Court).
And, of course, if Hillary becomes president there will be a ton a vacancies for her to fill up with the most liberal jurists imaginable, which the Republicans will barely make a peep about let alone stage fillbusters.
Truer words were never spoken. Very few Republicans, and even fewer Democrats, would now support John McCain in a Presidential election.
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