Posted on 06/09/2005 5:16:56 AM PDT by ken5050
Good Thursday morning, fellow political junkies. Today's cloture vote on the Pryor nomination is scheduled at 4:PM. Follow along with us, here, and comment...
When that happens...I will breathe easier. To me, it all comes down to Bolton.
In the Committee on the Judiciary
Jun 08, 05 PN601 Department of Justice
Kenneth L. Wainstein, of Virginia, to be United States
Attorney for the District of Columbia for the term of four
years.
Jun 08, 05 PN600 The Judiciary
John Richard Smoak, of Florida, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of Florida.
May 23, 05 PN532 Department of Justice
Rod J. Rosenstein, of Maryland, to be United States
Attorney for the District of Maryland for the term of four
years.
May 13, 05 PN505 Department of Justice
James B. Letten, of Louisiana, to be United States Attorney
for the Eastern District of Louisiana for the term of four
years.
Apr 28, 05 PN474 Department of Justice
Catherine Lucille Hanaway, of Missouri, to be United States
Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri for the term
of four years.
Apr 04, 05 PN358 Department of Justice
Alice S. Fisher, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney
General.
Apr 04, 05 PN357 Department of Justice
Rachel Brand, of Iowa, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
Mar 01, 05 PN258 The Judiciary
Brian Edward Sandoval, of Nevada, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Nevada.
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Earl Cruz Aguigui, of Guam, to be United States Marshal for
the District of Guam and concurrently United States Marshal
for the District of the Northern Mariana Islands for the
term of four years.
Feb 14, 05 PN210 The Judiciary
Peter G. Sheridan, of New Jersey, to be United States
District Judge for the District of New Jersey.
Feb 14, 05 PN207 The Judiciary
Sean F. Cox, of Michigan, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Feb 14, 05 PN206 The Judiciary
Thomas L. Ludington, of Michigan, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Feb 14, 05 PN205 The Judiciary
Daniel P. Ryan, of Michigan, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Feb 14, 05 PN203 The Judiciary
Brett M. Kavanaugh, of Maryland, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Feb 14, 05 PN198 The Judiciary
Henry W. Saad, of Michigan, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Sixth Circuit.
Feb 14, 05 PN197 The Judiciary
Susan Bieke Neilson, of Michigan, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.
Feb 14, 05 PN193 The Judiciary
William James Haynes II, of Virginia, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
Feb 14, 05 PN192 The Judiciary
Terrence W. Boyle, of North Carolina, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
Jan 24, 05 PN119 Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
David B. Rivkin, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States
for the term expiring September 30, 2007.
These Rat Senators need to be able to say "I don't vote against all Bush nominees, only the bad ones"
They select a few non-controversial nominees to do this with, and the media eats up their "fair-mindedness" and case by case decision making, while saying the GOP senators are in lock-step because they vote for every single one of Bush's nominees.
Just the usual game playing.
Bolton isn't even part of the "deal", nor was the "nuclear option" going to apply to anyone besides judges.
Great read from DU. Thanks.
Teddy looks like he is flicking a booger in that pic
Another thought on the battle so far! They have used a lot of energy and money and we got 5 judges confirmed....pretty damn good.....how hard are they going to fight on the next nominations?
I understand the dynamics, but am still mad at McCain and the others (not so much at Graham, and Dewine, though).
I must adimt, I do like the irony. I think for the deal to have been a plus for the donks, they had to stall Frist's judicial agenda and get some consessions from RINOS to "backdoor-torpedo" some of the juges. Frist is not going to let it happen, so it looks as if in the end he is going to use the deal to snooker the donks and RINOS. Graham and Dewine will nuke the donks if they fililbuster. I think that the rinos, MSM and media, DUmmies and KOSacks are just starting figuring this out. Filibustering bolton was a huge stratgeic mistake for the donks.
ROFL!!!
He may have four this evening!
Life is good.
:-D
Poor little dears. tch tch
I didn't imply that it did.
I want Bolton to try and get his hands around the UN. That is the important vote to me. Maybe not to you, but to me it is.
I don't want the UN running rough shod over us, with Bolton there, they'll have a harder time trying.
I just love it when a plan comes together!
We definitely need a "strong" person in the UN
I want Bolton approved!
Get over it. We could never absolutely count on McCain, or the Maine Sisters, or Chafee. The worst scenario imaginable was a loss on the nuclear vote.
The other thing that many were whining about when the deal went down was that there was a secret agreement to torpedo one of the "extreme 3". That has now been proved false.
Amen, we want Bolton too! No Mercy!
Maybe the way we feel is that without the RINOs particularly McCain the Dims would not have had the nerve to try these filibuters in the first place and these judges would have been confirmed years ago.
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