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Democrats shift strategy on Roberts; Plan to use Katrina to highlight racial and economic divide
Boston Globe ^ | 9/7

Posted on 09/07/2005 12:50:56 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon

Democrats shift strategy on Roberts

Plan to use Katrina to highlight racial and economic divide

By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | September 7, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats said yesterday that they will invoke the vast disparities in income and living conditions laid bare by the Hurricane Katrina disaster to sharpen their questioning of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. at his confirmation hearings next week.

The scenes of devastation featuring primarily poor African-American residents in New Orleans have highlighted the widening gap between rich and poor, said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts.

With Roberts having urged a narrow interpretation of civil rights laws in the past, Senate Democrats will link the scenes of economic hardship with the constitutional and legal issues that surround efforts to address racial and economic inequalities, he said.

''We have made very important progress over the period of the last 50 years in knocking down walls of discrimination so that people can participate and be a part of a changed America," said Kennedy, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. ''And he's going to be asked to explain some of his advice that would have, I think, undermined that progress in important ways."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; blamegame; bushhaters; dirtyrats; johnroberts; katrina; lostdems; obstructionistrats; racebaiters; rats; scotus; senaterats
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
No low is too low for these DemonCat scumbags.

Hey, it's a way of life for them!

If you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

21 posted on 09/07/2005 1:16:39 AM PDT by EGPWS
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To: BigSkyFreeper
If the Republicans for once,explain to the American public over and over again ;the process ,what really happened,the Dem's will miserably.
22 posted on 09/07/2005 1:19:28 AM PDT by patriciamary
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To: AlaskaErik

I believe he also said "I just lost the South to the Democrats for the next hundred years."


23 posted on 09/07/2005 1:20:05 AM PDT by D-fendr
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Leahy said he watched the scenes of hardship on television with a growing sense of anger over the inability to deliver services to those who depend most on the government, issues he said would come up during the Roberts hearings.

Exactly what political party is, with precious few exceptions, in charge of most city governments? And has been for the past four or five decades?

What political party had their "opportunity for greatness" (that Bill Clinton missed out on on 911) this past week and could not have failed more dismally and in every way people can fail.

What political party ran the city government in New Orleans?

Have your hearings, Democrats. Let you have yours, let Hillary have hers. Bring it on. You people are so twisted with hate and obsessed with what Republicans are that you can never, ever hope to be that you can't even see that this will all blow up right in your faces. Bring it on.

Fools.

24 posted on 09/07/2005 1:22:39 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: BigSkyFreeper
This may turn out to be worse than the Clarence Thomas hearings.

The "chirping" will go on for a couple of weeks after the hearings start and Roberts will be selected.

25 posted on 09/07/2005 1:23:25 AM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

He should answer every question kennedy asks with, "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it."


26 posted on 09/07/2005 1:24:45 AM PDT by lawdude (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: lawdude

LOL


27 posted on 09/07/2005 1:38:39 AM PDT by Bostton1 (Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns have!)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Whatever.. more democracy loot blackmail


28 posted on 09/07/2005 1:44:50 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

The Republicans need to highlight that after 50 years and trillions of dollars, the RAT'S PLAN TO HELP THE POOR AND UNDERCLASS HAS NOT WORKED ONE IOTA!!!


29 posted on 09/07/2005 1:52:09 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Of Course!.....leave it to the Demoncats to play political football with a natural disaster...It's all Bush's fault!


30 posted on 09/07/2005 2:13:44 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Who would expect the Rats to do anything other than build a political program around race-baiting?


31 posted on 09/07/2005 2:38:41 AM PDT by angkor
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

There is also a wide disparity in the racial make-up of looters, with about 99.7% of those assested or shown being black..


32 posted on 09/07/2005 2:52:21 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Shameless opportunists exploting suffering and death for their own petty agenda -- these people give leaches a bad name.


33 posted on 09/07/2005 2:55:31 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Pardon me while I throw up. Ship Liberals to Iraq where they can be useful for once in their lives.


34 posted on 09/07/2005 3:08:32 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

That in the misery and misfortune of the American people, the 'Rats find their opportunity, says all there is to say.


35 posted on 09/07/2005 3:30:15 AM PDT by mo
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To: cyborg
There was supposed to be a Katrina victims' rally in NYC and it turned into a violent Bush bashing fest.

They just cannot stay "on message", can they! Free Mumia...oh, wait.

36 posted on 09/07/2005 3:49:27 AM PDT by Bahbah (Tim Russert is a poopy-head)
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To: mo
That in the misery and misfortune of the American people, the 'Rats find their opportunity, says all there is to say.

Amen.

37 posted on 09/07/2005 3:50:23 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

They've totally lost it.


38 posted on 09/07/2005 3:51:47 AM PDT by FReethesheeples (Was the Narcissistic Joe Wilson a Source in "Outing" His Own Wife Valerie Plame as a "CIA Agent"?)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
What political party had their "opportunity for greatness" (that Bill Clinton missed out on on 911) this past week and could not have failed more dismally and in every way people can fail.

Yet, the RATS continue to do what they do best....STEP IN IT! Stepping In Poop

39 posted on 09/07/2005 3:52:57 AM PDT by jslade ("If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." (Seminole Cty, FL))
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

I agree that there's a clear divide between people who loot, rape babies and old women, fire guns at National Guardsmen, and those who don't.


40 posted on 09/07/2005 3:53:24 AM PDT by oblomov
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