Posted on 06/19/2005 5:56:00 PM PDT by echoBoomer
...MR. RUSSERT: Gang of 14--and said that we will not invoke the nuclear option... and that some of these candidates the president had nominated would be voted on. You were roundly, roundly discussed, and dismissed, in some circles. Human Events had this headline: "McCain: A Sell-Out On Principles and Party." ...
McCain: both parties were at the edge of the precipice. We pulled back. We have now had six of the president's nominees confirmed. I believe that will set the stage for a reasonable debate on a Supreme Court nominee, which is largely what this whole situation was about. Both parties, majority of both parties in the Senate, are glad that we didn't have this confrontation. The Democrats would have had to slow down the Senate. And we wouldn't have achieved anything except appropriations bills. And Republicans might have done something that they would have been sorry for if we were ever in the minority again with a liberal Democrat president.
So I'm proud of what we did. I am pleased at the results so far, and I'm confident that because most of our colleagues are glad we diffused the situation that we--every day that goes by and every judge that's confirmed it's less likely we will have this huge confrontation again...
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Dream on, McLame.
McCain -- the only POW who was not interested in finding out what happened to all the POW/MIA that DIDN'T come home....
He and Kerry "closed the book" on that chapter...
Yes --- he's a hero alright...
A hero to Kerry and the Communist Vietnamese..
F'em
Semper Fi
So you are giving your consent if elected president (as if) that it would be okay to filibuster your nominees then?
The person who transcribed this doesn't know the difference between diffuse and defuse.
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I avoid listening to the Devil when he speaks. It threatens my political soul.
He will run as a Republican. Since I've worked in a number of independent and third-party campaigns for President, I can guar-on-d*mn-tee that starting right now, McCain does not have the money or the organization to run except as a Republican or Democrat. And by a narrow margin, given that choice, he will have to run as a Republican.
McCain's tinfoil star will be tarnished, however, when his "Compromise" done with the Gang of 14 blows up over President Bush's second nomination to the Supreme Court. I have long predicted that that failure will occur in late July or early August.
Congressman Billybob
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