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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Coop, for the life of me, I still can't figure out why you think that "deal" changed nothing especially if this story is true?
How come all of us know what a snake Chuckie is, but Lindsey hasn't a clue?
So,.....I'm sorry but I don't get it. Is the idiot saying no matter who it is the DIms are going to war? Even if its a so called moderate like they want......Sorry but I don't see the political gain for the RATS in that......Am I missing something?
Hey Schumer, you dumbest of all dumb liberal democrat bastards! You blood thirsty SOB's and your Sobs on the Supreme Courts past and present and future,(future-in your perverted dreams) are directly responsible for the bloodiest d*mn war ever known to human kind, with over fifty million non-combatant and innocent Americans butchured,as compared to only several dead SOBs on the side of you merciless aggressors.
You blood smeared sonovabitches not only have no exit strategy from your war upon the absolutely most innocent of the innocent, but you oppose anyone who may be appointed to a position where they could possibly exert the power needed to stem the flood of innocent blood shed.
May you blood thirsty liberal ghouls drown in the oceans of innocent blood that you alone are responsible for-damn your heathen souls!!!!
Fred Thompson is on Brit Hume's Special Report NOW
So, is someone gearing up to take on Graham in the primary? This should seal his fate.
The thing is, at some point you are going to have to trust the president. We elected him, he has already told us what kind of person he intends to nominate. He has a whole group of conservative lawyers surrounding him that have been researching this since he was elected his first term. Do you really think they'd pick someone who wasn't a strict constructionist?
You go shooting at shadows now, you'll have no ammuntion for the real fight.
We really need a daily thread for Brit's show...it is always chock full of interesting stuff---
Did you just hear the story about ABC NEWS and what they did for Chuckie on Sunday, so he would appear with Georgie Stephanopolous? Ridiculous!!!
Are they not one in the same?
I haven't seen this brought up lately, so I thought that I would add some observations concerning the media and its coverage of the Supreme Court battle.
What is going on at Fox News Channel? I am a faithful viewer of Fox & Friends, and I must say that the anti-conservative remarks and Christian bashing has gone to a new level lately. I think that this show is fairly balanced with their analysis and comments most of the time, but the past few days it's been nothing but an attack on conservative groups and pro-lifers. From E.D. Hill exclaiming "Roe V. Wade is the law of the land"! on yesterday's show, to Brian Kilmeade exclaiming today "why do we even care about this"?, and his harshly toned question for Senator Orrin Hatch this morning after the Senator said that there will be some Democrats who will oppose anyone as long as they are conservative, Kilmeade asks in a clipped fashion "like who"? or even better, Kiran Chetry asking the question of a Democratic pundit "Alberto Gonzales is pro-life, correct?, so he wouldn't just get on the court and overturn Roe V. Wade". That question from her didn't even make sense! Of course, she's such a pro-abort liberal that she must have meant to say "pro-choice" in her question. Chetry also said about the court fight "it's a lifetime appointment, so all you have to do is stack the court with your ideology and you're set for life". Well, I hate to tell Ms. Chetry, but a lifetime appointment doesn't mean that a particular justice will be there for the entirety of my lifetime or yours, or even theirs for that matter. I think that they have to serve at least 16 years, am I correct on that. They can retire after that, right?
Am I the only one to pick up on this? I don't expect them to take sides, but every one of them seems to have some sort of newfound vendetta against Christian conservatives. Fox has a pretty good sized base of conservative viewers, and I don't understand their very obvious leftward slant on this one.
Nonetheless the Democrats and the Gang of 14 are batting 0 for 3 thus far. Schumer hit the panic button after he hit the SEND button on his cell phone. The Democrats and the Gang of 14 have shown they are just a bunch of whining losers.
I saw that... and I loved the expression on Brit's face when he reported it, it was priceless.
Chuck Schumer is a d-ckless commie sh-tbag.
'This insulting of Chuck Schumer was paid for by ArmyBratProud for a better America'
I'm ArmyBratproud, and I endorsed this insult.
LINDSEY 'I'm A RINO PUNK' Graham was planning an event with Schumer!!!!!!!
I hope folks in Lindsey's state finally realize that he is a RINO!
It's time for Frist to pull the trigger! First he'll have to find a spine.
"I hope George just does recess appointments"
That won't work, either. In six months, he'll be back to square one...again.
Frist needs to stand firm and tell any jackass, like McCain, to hold his tongue: No capitulating!
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