Posted on 07/06/2005 9:00:58 AM PDT by MikeA
**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…
In the words of George W. Bush, "BRING IT ON"!!!
Wow.......intentional manipulation of the Supreme Court. Is it called treason or politics?
Remember the deal with McDermott and the Newt call?
He's right on the first point, and a lousy liar on the second. For the 'Rats, this appointment is about one thing and one thing only, abortion. They're going to pull out all the stops to keep their precious "right" to slaughter unborn children. If there is any good to come of it, it will be to see what a sham this anti-filibuster "deal" really was. The first thing the 'Rats will do it throw that dead weight overboard. They're going to filibuster any nominee who won't come right out and say that they support abortion.
If you speak so loud as to be overheard?
Chuckie Scummer your a Democrat. You need a Un resolution passed before you can go to war.
According to Drudge, this was not "intercepted", it was "overheard". He was in public making this call, according to Drudge.
Yeah, you're right. I'm sure this is going to open up a can or worms. I wonder who intercepted the call. On the other hand, the media will ignore the content of the call to throw up dust about the illegality of the intercept. When it was Newt, they couldn't have cared less about the illegality. They just wanted to put a nefarious spin on what was said in the call.
Well there is the PROFF of how the DEMRATS really think about this entire nomination process? Can anyone say nuclear option?
It makes me happy to see that Bush is waiting a short spell before naming the successor. The longer the 'Craps have to wait, the more likely they are to demonstrate their willingness to reject *anybody* Bush names.
Yes, it is. Fortunately that's not the case here. Schumer was overheard by a bystander while in a public place. If he'd wanted to keep the conversation private, he would have made the call from somewhere else.
And how is Drudge culpable anyway? What's the difference if I overhear a friends husband talking to his mistress on a cellphone and telling my friend, and this?
That doesn't apply here, Norm, because apparently this person heard Schumer on the train, while he was speaking, not through a cell intercept.
BTTT
copy to:
Chuckie
Lindsey
Rush
Sean
Hugh
There's not even a nominee. They don't care...it's about obstruction.
This is important because no one has been nominated yet. It represents a breech of faith and a politicization of the process. We know this, but there are still naive people to convince.
In addition, Schumer's mocking of the gang of 14 and being all sweetness and light to Graham should convince at least Graham to go nuke. Remember, two defections from the gang of 14 and the Constitutional option is in play.
If Bush nominates a 1st class original constitution constructionist and puts all the "R" in lock step, it promises to be the Democrat's waterloo.
That is IF (and it is a BIG if) the republicans find their testicles and spines.
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