MR. RUSSERT: When Bill Clinton was president, he nominated two people to the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who was general counsel for the ACLU part of her career, and Stephen Breyer, who worked for Ted Kennedy. And look at these votes, Dr. Dean, overwhelmingly approved, 96-to-3 and 87-to-9. Republicans, even though they disagreed philosophically with those two liberal jurists, said the president has nominated them and we'll support them because he won the election and he has a right to put people on the bench who reflect his judicial philosophy. Why shouldn't the Democrats have the same respect for President Bush's outcome?
DR. DEAN: Well, that is, in truth, not what the Republicans did. In those particular cases, they made those votes. They stonewalled hundreds of judicial appointees that Bill Clinton made, hundreds of them that never came up. They wouldn't even take them up. The Republicans wouldn't even give Harriet Miers a right to an up or down vote. How dare they make a case for an up or down vote on Judge Alito?
MR. RUSSERT: But they did support those liberal jurists.
DR. DEAN: I don't care who they supported. They killed hundreds of nominations in the Supreme Court. That is the most hypocritical nonsense. As you know, hypocrisy is a feature of Washington's life daily. That is nonsense. They get no credit for voting for Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Justice Breyer after killing hundreds of Clinton nominations and killing Harriet Miers. How dare they have--I saw an ad the other day. How dare they have an ad saying, "We want an up or down vote on Judge Alito" when they wouldn't give one to Harriet Miers?
Isn't it amazing how Dean can make hysteric nonsensical statement after statement and it just floats right by the Dinosaur Media yet if a Republican stumbles over their words its a banner headline story? Yeah, "Objective" Journalist
Thank you...he did mention the Supreme Court when talking about Clinton's nominees not getting confirmed...but, I think he misspoke...
BUT, as verified by Cboldt's post...he is wrong about the number of confirmed justices in Clinton's time.
Plus, I do believe that despite the "agreement" that the Gang of 14 dwarfs wrote up...there are STILL quite a few nominees waiting for confirmation votes...sigh
The link is to the full transcript of the 11/13/05 MTP.
"DR. DEAN: I don't care who they supported. They killed hundreds of nominations in the Supreme Court."
Is this guy stupid, or just lying? Or both?