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 Presidents 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 wasnt 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.
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Bring it on, Schumer. Bring it on!
The White House apparently has tapped Ed Gillespie former RNC Chair, to be in charge of the campaign for the nominee. That is good.
Fred Thompson is a great guy. Many more know him for his role as the DA in Law & Order than for his politics. He is very eloquant and will be a wonderful face for the "WAR" on the court. Who's more likeable thus more convincing - Schumer and Kennedy or Fred Thompson.
Heck, I'd bet most people in the US think Thompson is really the tough DA of NYC
Too true! How's this for a clarifying edit?
Party before Country - it's the Demonrat Way!
Is that better?
I remember him for his politics I remember the first time I saw him as an actor, because I knew he had been a real Senator.So I was a little confused. I am still a little short in the tooth :) We can use all the help we can get.
I think that the "inside the beltway" crowd STILL don't understand that with c-span, talk radio, and the internet, that we are watching and listening to everything they do..
I think they think that they can have their conversations with the Schumers and Clintons, but WE the people won't find out.
I think that the 2006 election COULD be almost as interesting as the 2004 election if WE the people use the anger we feel now to replace (if possible) any and all that think they can get away with this stuff..
I am not shocked at all. What do you expect from the other side?
"Party before Country - it's the Democrats way!"
One point that needs to be hammered home publicly in a variety of forums (TV ads, speeches, etc.) is that so many of the leading Demagogues are so much more eager to "GO TO WAR" against fellow Americans than against Islamo-fascists. It's just a staggering fact that after 9/11 even a NY Senator like Chuckie Schumer can't muster any such toughness against the people who are trying to kill us all.....
FWIW, Rush just said that it was a good idea to have Fred Thompson help with the candidate...
He said that Bush doesn't want the candidate left out by him/herself dangling, with arrows being shot by the dems and the MSM---so he figures if Thompson is used to "shepherd" the candidate through the process, it will help---
Look what happened to Miguel Estrada...he was kept dangling with no "support" and just had to quit waiting..
thank you chuckie for the 2006 and 2008 elections....
I wouldnt worry about Frist. This is his time to shine. (I hope)....
obstruct obstruct... "to hell with country" should be their motto. politics is the blood of the democratic party
Oh I know what you mean, but the media creeps and Rats know who he is so that's good. I like it the more I think about it.
Excellent Point! Seems like most Dems and some Repubs only want to fight AGAINST America and Americans, rather than the insipid enemy who silently and loudly plots our demise.
Looks like somebody's ferret got loose again....and this time it has a cell phone!
I just that they have also enlisted Ed Gillespie, he knows how to handle the Donks. They to need to suround whoiever the pick is. If Chuckie wants war, then we'll give him one. I am still laughing about Clinton losing the Olympics! Let the English pay for the security.
Cross linking this interesting thread from yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1437269/posts
[FLASHBACK] Ramsey Clark backs the President's Supreme Court nominee
Maybe one of the reasons that Fred Thompson was picked to help out in this is BECAUSE he is from Tennessee, right?
Maybe he is there to stand behind FRIST more than the candidate!!!
What? That he talks to Democreats that he works with?
Do me a favor: GET OUT MORE.
Yeppers---you know the reason she went there was so she could use "getting the Olympics to New York" in her Senate and POTUS resumes....LOL
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