Posted on 11/01/2005 7:37:53 AM PST by Valin
HH: Senator DeWine, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show. As a son of Warren, Ohio, and a grandson of Ashtabula, Ohio, it's great to talk to a Buckeye State Senator.
MD: All right. That's great. Good to be with you. Thank you very much.
HH: Your reaction to the nomination of Judge Alito?
MD: Well, I think it's been a great, great pick. I think the president really has hit a home run here.
HH: Now, Senator DeWine, you are on the Judiciary Committee. Senator Schumer, your colleague, came out and said this is going to take a long time to get ready. We've got to read everything. Don't expect anything anytime this year. Your reaction to Senator Schumer's slow-down tactics?
MD: Well, there's no reason we can't get this nomination through by the end of the year. We need to get this job done, and we certainly can do it. We can have hearings, and we can move forward.
HH: Your colleague on judiciary, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said yesterday on Face The Nation, that if Democrats attempt to filibuster, he will work to break it, meaning that this is not something the Gang of 14 had in mind. Do you agree with Senator Graham that this is not a filibusterable nomination?
MD: Oh, I absolutely do. I mean, this is not under what our definition of extraordinary circumstances is. This is a nomination that's clearly within the mainstream of conservative judges. This is someone who has a long, distinguished record, someone who I would classify as kind of a classic conservative justice, who believes you should decide each case one at a time, you should not be a judicial activist, you should not be intrusive, that a judge should kind of sit back, wait for that case to come, and then make a decision on the case, but not be really a legislator. And really, that's what this judge's record would, at least seem to me, to show.
"Actually, this is great news - assuming DeWine keeps his word, of course. His vote and Graham's means a 50-50 tie if the Constitutional Option becomes necessary, which of course gets broken by Cheney."
The other five (and many democrats can do this math, and will vote with the majority, too.
There is so much drunken sailor spending going on these days by all -- especially Republicans -- it is really hard to identify any one program as being particularly emblematic of "drunken sailor" spending.
Gee, ANOTHER one of MNJohnnie's "predictions" is falling apart. I thought anyone to the right of Christie Whitman with a paper trail was DOA and "didn't have the votes" to survive a filbuster thanks to the gang of 14.
IF people like Santorum had had the 50 votes to nuke the filibuster they would of done it long ago. They do NOT because there are some gutless or stupid Senators who think that one day THEY might want to Fillibuster a Justice.
Posted on 10/22/2005 3:26:52 PM CDT by MNJohnnie
Rogers Brown, J. Michael Luttig, Priscilla Owen, Edith Clement, Sam Alito... Why do you think we can any of these thru a Republican Senate that could not even get the votes to overturn a single LOWER court Judical Fillibuster? Posted on 10/22/2005 2:25:37 PM CDT by MNJohnnie
(MNJohnnie also claimed even an well-qualified little known dark horse conservative "wouldn't have the votes" to be confirmed in a REPUBLICAN senate either!!)
Ok Billy Boy. time to put your money where you mouth is. THIS one is on you. YOU get it thru the Senate. Cause those of us that make the party work are sick of the whine all the time chorus sitting on their butts whining. YOu are all mad? OK YOU get the next one thru the Senate. Cause we are done carrying the whiners. This next nominee is YOUR problem. We aren't going to carry the party any more. Posted on 10/27/2005 8:57:35 PM CDT by MNJohnnie
Gee, two of the "moderate gang of 14" have ALREADY said they will NUKE any filibuster against "ultra conservative" Alito. MNJohnnie, are you ready to stop digging yourself deeper in that hole now? Are you ready to admit an error in judgement in your "Harriet is the best we can get" theory or will you wait til "unconfirmable" Alito is sworn in?
Not to mention, the Miers nomination put every Republican Senator on notice that if conservatives can be this upset at the President - who doesn't face re-election - then they had better oppose this shameful abuse of power by the Democrats or else face defeat within the next few years. Quite a few RINOs, including the likes of McCain, Specter, Graham and DeWine have openly stated the Dems better not attempt a filibuster. For any other Republican Senator to support that filibuster now would be political suicide. Republican voters have finally had thier fill of Senators who won't stand up to the Democrats.
Republican Senators know if they let the Dems filibuster, they'll be looking for new jobs in the next three years.
EXACTLY! Nailed it!
You should be more careful Billyboy when you pretend to quote people. Most of those are things said TO me, not by me.
But whine all you want little DU troll. You side has lost the House, Has lost the Senate, has lost the White House and now we are coming for your Court. So be afraid little DU troll, be very, very afraid. No matter how much you try to stir dissension on the Right we are 100% behind Alito and are going to ram him down your whiny Leftist throat.
Never said any such thing about Alito Little Bobby Democrat stooge. In the future you might want to actual find out the facts before you go out to make a personal attack. So just who do you work for Bobby, Democrat National Comitteee? Moveon.org? Answer?
We are certainly going to do that!
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