The Left is in a tizzy, and their evil hearts are exposed.
Posted on 01/20/2006 11:11:53 PM PST by JohnHuang2
WASHINGTON -- Pressure from liberal activists to oppose confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court has been so intense that Democratic senators may be trapped into a filibuster that they do not want to wage -snip- But Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid may not want to risk causing Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist to set a precedent by using the "nuclear" option: to end a filibuster by simple majority vote. Continues...
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Democrats suffer broken backs; Alito hearings blamed
"The system's kind of broken," says Sen. Joe Biden. The "system" of "kind of" confirmation hearings. But Biden says Biden's not the reason the "system's kind of broken." Or, at least he's not the reason anymore. In fact, stung by criticism of being too long-winded during the John Roberts hearings, Biden whittled each question down this time to only over 20 minutes.
Appearing on NBC's "Today" show last Thursday, Biden complained that "nominees now, Democrat and Republican nominees, come before the United States Congress and resolve not to let the people know what they think about important issues." Biden's tired of nominees showing up donning white baseball caps with "PRINCETON" emblazoned in front, preening for the TV cameras. And yammering endlessly about their grandfather named Finnegan and their daughter at the University of Pennsylvania. The system is totally kinda broken!
Biden's kinda "solution"? Ditch the hearings and "just go to the Senate floor and debate the nominee's statements . . ." Make sure the 'nominee's statements' were the nominee's -- not "borrowed" language, to be sure. But that's it. "Rather than this game."
"We oughta just go straight to the Senate (floor for debate). That's a much better way to do it," Biden told NEWSWEEK.
And to show he really means it, Biden and fellow Judiciary Committee Democrats are keeping Alito's nomination from going to the Senate floor for debate. For at least one week. The press calls this 'Democrats exercising their right to a customary one-week delay .' I call it 'Democrats selecting the date they get defeated.'
Democrats delayed Bush's vote certification, delayed Cabinet appointments, delayed Judges, delayed White House pizza deliveries. So a petty one-week delay on Alito was a bit of a shock.
Specter and Leahy had struck a 'deal' back in November. Specter pushed for hearings in early January. Leahy pushed for hearings in early January, 2009. But January, 2006 it would be, with a vote in Committee on the 17th and an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor days later. Now Dems renege on the deal. One GOP Senator called it a 'breach of trust.' Libbies burn the flag, kill the unborn, appease terrorists, commit treason, shorten sentences for rapists and murderers -- BUT RENEGE ON THEIR WORD?!?
The way the process usually works is that the President announces his nomination. If the President is a Republican, and the nominee is a Republican, the nomination is "controversial." "Controversial" because Ted Kennedy calls the nominee a racist, sexist, homophobic four-legged, two-headed, flame-spewing, green-slimy-scaled monster chowing down on left-handed gay Native-American abortion doctors protesting pRESIDENT Bu$hitler's Dieboldical police state.
Given its heavy media coverage, the hearings are the first and only real chance the racist, sexist, homophobe has to clear his name. But if you're a bed-wetting losercratic clown like Joe Biden, and "Dumbya's" nominees keep handing your butt to you on live TV, scrapping the hearings and going straight for a filibuster on the Senate floor is what you want.
Rather than Judge Alito being the "freak" appointment, the only freak appointments were senators sitting on the Democrat side of the committee.
Seeing how well these hearings have gone for libbies, the Bidenocrats essentially are telling their shriveling base of morons that senators are too incompetent to judge a nominee's competence. Let the press advise and consent.
Instead of taking on the nominee in hearings, Democrats are reverting to basics: Cut and run.
During a full week of "confirmation" hearings, Judge Alito fielded more than 700 penetrating speeches and pontifications from senators. Subjects included extremely hot button issues such as application of H.R. 1646's provisions in sections 408, 616, 621, 633 and 1343 under professor John Yoo's theory of the "unitary executive" (a really tantalizing topic around the water cooler!), under which the President would actually be in charge of the government's Executive Branch -- just because Article II of the Constitution says so; Bush's scandalous decision to allow the NSA to spy on innocent al-Qaeda-Americans; Vanguard; Alito's membership in CAP (Concerned Alumni of Princeton); Vanguard; a job application Alito filled out only over 21 years ago; Vanguard. It was enough to make you leave the hearing room in tears. Of laughter.
Of all the pre-schoolery in last week's Leahy-Kennedy-Biden-Schumer-Durbin laugh-a-thon, the libbie paranoia surrounding Alito's membership in Princeton's now-defunct CAP group got the prize. Are you now, or have you ever been a member of Concerned Alumni of Princeton?, the concerned senators asked, donning their Alumni-foil hats. Never know -- with Alito in the room, NSA-satellite-beamed alien rays, and all that.
Democrats never laid a glove on him. Instead, Alito laid a glum on Democrats. Glum Democrats Can't See Halting Bush on Courts read a New York Times headline. Libbies are so glum, all they can do is watch Brokeback Mountain to keep from leaping from their apartment ledge. Or listen to Al Gore "ROAR" speeches as a sleep aid.
For a whole week, we kept hearing Democrats say how 'troubled' they were, believing this would sink Alito because it's against the law to trouble an endangered species! Despite this, Alito's a shoo-in, and Democrats, walking the planks of the Democrat platform, are still stuck-on-stupid.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
grammar check for thee...drug is not a tense of any kind for the word drag...it's dragged..thank you.
The Left is in a tizzy, and their evil hearts are exposed.
Brokeback Judiciary Committee?
I always learn so much reading you. How to spell "renege" my lesson du jour. And boy did I need it! Democrats on the Judicial Committee have made a career out of reneging!
I've reneged at the bridge table, but I never did it on purpose....like Leahy. Sometimes a renege is an out and out lie, planned out all along, intentional, down and dirty.
And on that nasty Abrahamoff's lobbying efforts. I don't know if he ever sunk to the level of Democrat special interests groups, demanding he get his money's worth.
But let's tell the truth - three of 45 Republican senators voted against Ginsburg, and there were at least 20-25 who were active supporters.
Of the existing 45 Democrat senators, 42 are radical leftist activists at heart. Of the existing 55 Republican senators, how many are radical rightist activists at heart? One? Two?
The party of the radical left is by far the largest party in the senate. The breakdown (forget the party designations) is probably 40 radical socialist, 30 center-left, 5 center, 20 center-right, and 5 right.
Besides ben nelson all the dems are radical leftists.
That means you have 43 radical dems plus Jeffords
Then you have your rinos: Chafee, Snowe, Collins, McCain, Specter
Then you have your semi rinos: Voinovich, Murkowski, Warner, Dewine
Then you have your kiss up to the media mavericks: Hagel and Graham
You are already up to 55 and out of the rest of the 45 at least 15 are very soft supporters.
Very few true star conservatives like Tom Coburn.
DITTOS to that.
You are one person that would be fun to sit at a table in a Pizza joint with a pizza and a pitcher of beer and talk politics or life in general with.:)
I love it. I didn't see those other frames of the cartoon posted!
Another great 2 cents.
Fantastic, as usual, JH2!
Your $.02 ALWAYS rocks!
The 'Rats = Brokeback Senate.
If I could amend my tagline,
I would add the word "Democrat"
in front of the word "senators".
But, I couldn't do that to Will. ;o)
Your .02 (which is worth at least a buck-05) is always great JH2!
It seems like I haven't seen your work in a while -- do you have a ping list?
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Funny, I'm a woman and I've never felt like my rights were threatened by constititional judges. Now liberals, on the other, make me feel like the rights AND liberties of, not only women, but of all Americans, are threatened.
Who gives these nagging b*tches the right to speak for all women? They sure don't speak for me. Never did. Shouldn't they say instead that they're concerned about the "rights" of whining, nagging, emasculating, self-absorbed, baby killing, perpetually malcontented liberals who had the "misfortune" of being born with female body parts?
Alito ~ Bump!
Thank you so much for the excellent wrap-up!
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