Posted on 07/06/2005 8:57:00 AM PDT by visagoth
We should go beyond nuclear. We need to go use our antimatter option.
Leahy is on Hairball with Andrea Mitchell---
I have never EVER heard a interviewer serve up SO many softballs and lead a guest toward an answer like she did..
I thought Chrissy Matthews was bad, but Mitchell---better, she doesn't pull any punches...
If you want to REALLY get mad, watch the replay of this show tonight!!!
BTW, Sam Brownback is getting ready to come on---anxious to see how HIS questions are framed!
Uh, who was the last SC Republican to be denied primary renomination? Uh, rephrase that: has ANY SC Republican ever been denied renomination, save for a few state legislators?
When Lindsay was on Hannity tonight, he seemed to say that asking nominees how they would rule in Roe v. Wade type case, would be off-limits...
AND, he said that since Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor, and Priscilla Owen are all pro-life, and they were confirmed, that can't be considered an "extraordinary circumstance"---
He also said that he would hold the democrats in the GANG of 14, to their word, that they wouldn't filibuster because of judicial philosophy...
I think we have to give Andrea Mitchell the title of Dems Head Cheerleader...she practically had out her pom-poms when Leahy was on...
BTW, according to Leahy, they are not going to be "bound" by the timetable the President made, of having a justice ready to start in October..
He said that the President doesn't have the "right" to tell the Senate what their timetable should be, then he said that IF this becomes ugly, and a long drawn out process, it will be Bush's fault...
for nominating a "divider, not a uniter"...therefore, the country must be told it is HE, not the dem Senators that is causing the problem.
I don't see Lindsey holding them to their word.
If he was on the line with Chucky boy...planning a possible event.....
then something bad is going down.
Now that idiot that follows Hard Ball is on.
He'll attack Rove in 5,4,3,2.....
LOL---you got it..
Did you see the thread about the ratings of these shows?
It is totally amazing how much the ratings for Fox News, has overwhelmed CNN, which means that MSNBC is underground looking up!!! and Olbermann is the worst of the worst!
is this a real photo? do you have a source for it?
Apparently, it was heard by another passenger on the Amtrak train standing near Schumer. That's legal.
The other situation you referred was illegal because it intercepted an electronic signal in violation of the so-called "Electronic Communications Privacy Act" (ECPA).
-PJ
The point is, he's supposed to have the "advice and consent" of the Senate for any nominations.
Lets get one thing perfectly clear. The dems are using the filibuster to PREVENT A VOTE. Because THEY KNOW THE NOMINEES ARE QUALIFIED AND WOULD BE CONFIRMED.
So they are refusing to do THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY, which is to say yea or nay to a nomination.
If Bush was to make recess appointments, the shoe would be on the other foot. When Congress came back in session, the dims would have to PROVIDE SOME SORT OF EVIDENCE THE APPOINTED PERSON WAS INELIGIBLE.
Yeah, the whiners in Congress would scream bloody murder. But they would totally understand why it was done. And it might put any more nominations on the fasttrack for a vote.
Please name one thing - just one - that has changed since that deal went through. (You know, other than the confirmation of six separate judges, including at least two "controversial" nominees.)
Let's see what happens.
Then let's get back to each other.
'Chuckie will "go to war" over a conservative Supreme Court nominee, but not over radical Islamist terrorist attack where thousands of innocent Americans are killed.'
worth repeating.
slow down. the President and his advisors have plenty of info, and strategies that will make us say "oh, cool", when it happens.
Like this?
"Gay marriage is an issue that is being decided by the states. Why, Sen. Schumer, would you be interested in how a justice feels about this state law, or any other states' rights, unless you intend to overturn it through an activist Supreme Court?"
Bolton has been fillibustered to name one where he would NOT have been had the CO been initiated.
Coop, "The Deal" is the change. It took focus off the constitutional option... That's the whole ball of wax. The target is not the judgeships in the fed courts, that was the unknowing ploy that has worked so far for them dems, because the dems had NOTHING, before the deal. There is not ONE of those Judges appointed that will make a tinker's damn bit of difference in the next 2 years! It's using the CO that matters. It's appointing Bush's nominees to the SC that's important.
When the President nominates a SC judge and the dems bring up "EC" tell me, what you think is going to be the FIRST thing Frist will do?
He can't even begin to bring up the CO because the dumbass moderate idiot Repubs will be debating what EC means!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is there all this talk of WAR? Not just Schmucker, but rambling all over the press.
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