Posted on 07/06/2005 8:57:00 AM PDT by visagoth
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JULY 06, 2005 11:09:22 ET XXXXX
SEN. SCHUMER CAUGHT ON CELLPHONE: 'WE ARE GOING TO WAR' OVER SUPREME COURT
**Exclusive**
Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Schumer got busy plotting away on the cellphone aboard a Washington, DC-New York Amtrak -- plotting Democrat strategy for the upcoming Supreme Court battle.
Schumer promised a fight over whoever the President’s nominee was: “It's not about an individual judge… It's about how it affects the overall makeup of the court.”
The chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!
Schumer proudly declared: “We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.”
Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: “Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.”
Schumer later went on to mock the “Gang of 14” judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn’t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.
“A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.”
By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and “Gang of 14” member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.
Developing…
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A shocking revelation!
Schumer just lost the Democrat's 2006 and 2008 elections! Congratulations UPCHUCK the American people will now see another pathetic display of the Democratic Senators! Keep it up!
The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.
Now, why doesn't this surprise me, about Light-loafer Lindsey?
LOL! Meestar Pirahnahead (no offense to pirahna) is in for a suprise.
What a two-faced, lying, obstructionist creep! And now, let me tell ya about Schumer.
Schummer said what we all knew ... it doesn't matter who the nominee is, the Democrats are "going to war." He mocked the gang of 14 deal - probably in the same tones most of us on FR have mocked the gang of 14 deal.
The questions are: will Frist roll over? and is Specter the guy Schummer was talking to?
I'm sure that I can read a full report in the NY Slimes or the Washington Compost tomorrow.
So, there's actually a war the rats DO suppport?
That didn't read like I expected. Was I the only one who thought after reading Scalia the next would be Thomas?
Scummy Schemer...
How long before he whines about Drudge publishing this?
I hope George just does recess appointments and tells the dims, especially that loudmouth Shumer to crawl back into their respective holes.
Thomas has often been unpredictable because he's a true originalist, not a faux originalist.
While the Democrats prepare for war, the Republicans prepare for civil, dignified hearings,LOL!
.....which isn't an unreasonable assumption.
He was having a nice little chat with Light-loafer Lindsey.
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