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…
I phoned Graham's office. They know about this.
WE CAN COUNT ON THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA TO HELP THE DEMOCRATS ON THIS ISSUE.
RUSH on it right now.
Birds of a feather.
Not if the intercepting device is your ear vs. an electronic device.
What was Graham's reaction to this story?
Actually, just monitoring (electronically) a cellphone conversation is against the law--that's why all of the scanners produced since the late 80's have the cellphone frequencies blocked. The 1986 ECPA made it illegal to listen to cellphone conversations. Prior to that, the 1934 law that governed radio communications made it illegal to repeat what you heard from monitoring any radio transmission that wasn't intended for public use. Now, if some jerk, say Chuckie Schumer, talks too loud and can be overheard by anyone near him, well, that's certainly not illegal to listen to and report.
I hope Mr Bush stands firm on this and comes out swinging if the nominee encounters a filibuster. Being "gentlemanly" will get him nowhere.
Has any reporter ever directly asked Schumer or any of the other clowns why is it OK for you to impose litmus tests on judicial nominees but not for Republican presidents when they put forward someone??
Lucky Chucky
Don't count on this. You can always count on Senators like Trent Lott to back stab the Republican party.
I wonder how Graham will react to being mocked in this way. I certainly wouldn't take it very well.
GEORGE BUSH- Wed. July 6,2005
She didn't tell me.
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.
Only if you're a Republican. If you're a Democrat, it is not against federal law.
Drudge's report indicated that it was overheard. He does not say who Chuckie was talking to, or what the other person was saying.
"Please sir, may I have another?"
I agree: BRING IT ON, Rats, BRING IT ON. Plain and simple Americans who are SICK of their seditious BS will shout them down this time.
The most encouraging thing about the 2004 election is that 51% of the country doesn't believe the lamestream media anymore. Because if they did, with all the crap that was said about Bush, they never would have voted for him.
Now, the other shoe is about to fall. With all the invective and vitriol that will issue forth from the MSM, RATS, and MoveOver.org, et. al. over SCOTUS nominees, will come a tremendous backlash. The American people will go beyond just disbelief as to what the RATS and their friends say about Bush and those with whom they disagree, but will clearly see what the RAT party has become. And, they will RUN the other way. The GOP is about to clean up in 2006, in ways that we can hardly imagine.
The pathetic thing about the Left is that this is SO predictable. In inverse proportion, they will become more strident, more vocal, and more vociferous as they disintegrate, and so accelerate their demise.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.
There is no law violated by anyone reporting what they have heard with their own ears, in a public or private place. (And having spent decades in and around Washington, I've seen many instances of politicians making remarkably candid comments in the Monocle (Senate side) and Bullfeathers and Anton's (House side).) Anton's is long since out of business, but anyone can still hear such conversations today in those other two places, at their bars, later in the evening.
Congressman Billybob
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