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Posted on 07/19/2005 11:33:16 AM PDT by fedupjohn
Senator Barbara Boxer appearing on Fox News this afternoon was asked about the 'Gang of Seven' deal not to Filibuster nominees unless it is Extra-ordinary circumstances; declared that "with the right to privacy and Roe v Wade on the table this is an Extra-ordinary circumstance and the Filibuster is on the table".
Well people they just moved the goal posts.
That's okay. Pretty soon they will be in the Dawg Pound where the fans/voters will eat them alive.
Freeper Disambiguator Calls Existence of Sen. Boxer's Intellect "an Extraordinary Circumstance"
Don't worry. We have the votes for the nuclear option.
55 Republicans
-7 Members of the Gang of Seven
-1 Arlen Specter
+3 Members of the Gang of Seven who have said they WILL go nuclear if they have to.
+1 Dick Cheney to break the tie.
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50 Votes for the nuclear option.
That's why the feds have to shut down PANTEX. ;^)
You knew they would. Frist better check his testicles.
Boxer can vote based on litmus tests, the Zodiac or numerology for all I care. Just so long as the rest of the Senators are allowed to vote as well.
The Democrats will come to rue the day the Supreme Court handed Roe vs. Wade. It has united people against them like nothing else could. Absent Roe vs. Wade, there would be no Conservative movement in this country.
The Republicans have the votes in the Senate today because of Roe vs. Wade. It is time for that pendulum to swing back the other way.
You mean the confirmation threads?...they'll be no problem getting folks to do that..
That's a worst-case scenario too. More likely, we will have 5 or 6 of the Gang of 7 Republicans, plus 1 or 2 maverick Democrats. That would lead us with at least 53-55 votes.
A small problem in your equation. There are 100 senators and the VP only votes in case of a tie so it would require 51.
What a surprise!....not
Oops. I meant to put 50+1 at the bottom! Check my math: There are 51 votes for passage.
We'll see.
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Well her we go again!
Yes, but remember, the two RINO Senators from Maine--Snowe and Collins?--sent that letter to O'Connor asking her to stay on the Court to prevent a nasty confirmation fight.
It wouldn't surprise me to see those two and a couple of other limp-spined RINOs *not* in the Gang of Fourteen backstab Frist on attempting to invoke cloture. There's 55 Pubbies in the Senate, you know a couple will defect, he'll need 7-10 Rats to go along with him to be sure of shutting down a filibuster. Sounds like the Nucular(tm GWB) Option may be the only way to do this, if Babs is right and the deal is off.
}:-)4
I said as much myself three times in this thread. Except for one thing: Specter is NOT one of the gang of 14. I'd be surprised if he goes nuclear, so I figure we need three of the gang to go nuclear.
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