Posted on 06/03/2005 5:30:20 AM PDT by conservativecorner
The White House is preparing to send a raft of new judicial nominations to the Senate in the next few weeks, according to Republican strategists inside and outside the administration -- a move that could challenge the durability of last week's bipartisan filibuster deal and reignite the political warfare it was intended to halt.
The Bush administration has been vetting candidates for 30 more federal district and appeals court vacancies that have been left open for months while the Senate battled over previous nominations stalled by Democrats. Now that Democrats have agreed not to filibuster any new candidates except in "extraordinary circumstances," Republicans are eager to test the proposition.
"Republicans feel this is a good moment to move forward with judicial nominations," said Sean Rushton, executive director of the Committee for Justice, a group formed by C. Boyden Gray, who was White House counsel under President Bush's father, to support the current president's judicial appointments. "It's time to move on and also to get past the Clinton period" when Democrats salted the federal judiciary with more liberal appointments.
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While I'd love to see Ted Olsen on the bench, he left Government for private lawfirm work - probably for the paycheck, and to get away from being stymied by Dimorats in Gommint.
But an appt. as Supreme Court Judge? I find it difficult to imagine the circumstances where he'd turn that down.
JMHO.
Strategery + Schardenfreude = Stratenschardenfreudery
I love it. Now if I can get that kid from the Bee to help me spell it.
Yeah, that caught my eye, too. How dare he perform the duties of his office.
Wow! You guys are the greatest. The info to be had on this website is extraordinary. Oops! Should I have used the "E" word? Ha, ha.
This will be a devastating blow to the dim party and their causes as we know it. It'll show their members just how powerless the party really is.
Furthermore, more and more people will see that there is no reason to throw good money to a powerless party that really has no chance of winning the House or Senate for years to come.
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*Hearings held during the 109th Congress.
**This figure does not take into account recess appointments.
It's a mandate, but since it was a little closer than you stated, it was Bush (50.73%) to Kerry (48.27%), which is a 2.46% margin. This translates to a 'popular' vote victory of 3,012,499 votes over Kerry. Not quite the 4 million votes that you posit...
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They won't even have to go to that trouble.
All they have to do is say, "It's not a filibuster."
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LOL! I love it...
Picky...picky but you get my point I'm sure.
We can count on Mclaim and the other 6 traitors to aid/ abett the demo-commies. NSNR
Oh ok, thank you. I guess when Clinton recess appointed, they ended of approving them or something. FRegards.....
..actually, many on FR (as you know :) have been "foaming @ the mouth" for this very action. :D
Well maybe he's a closet freeper! Actually it is more likely Karl Rove is, the evil genius. And they of course so how savvy the freepers are, in our pajamas and everything. :)
LMAO!!!
That "deal" had to be dreamed up by the ghost of Lee Atwater while having breakfast with Karl Rove! I am still shaking my head in disbelief that the Democrats agreed to NOT filibuster while getting NOTHING in return except for a promise from a few Republican Senators not to "go nuclear". Well, friggin DUH! - - Why "go nuclear" if there's no filibusters and you don't HAVE TO???
Of course, if the rats go back on their promise (which they no doubt will), then the deal is OFF and the Republicans.... go nuclear! But NOW when the Republicans go nuclear they can shrug and say, "Hey, the Democrats broke their promise and so we had no choice." This deal ended up providing the perfect cover for some of these nervous "blue state" Senators. If Frist didn't have the votes before, he'll sure have them when the time comes to push the button. It's just unbelievable! LOL, I wonder if Harry Reid is in the market for a bridge somewhere....?
(By the way, I heard Rush's show today and I was floored that he STILL doesn't get it. All he talked about was how the rats will break the deal and start to filibuster again. Hello, Rush? That's the whole idea, my brother! You never once mentioned that Frist STILL has his finger hovering over that nuke button. Remember that nuke button? It's still there....)
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