Posted on 01/25/2006 5:46:02 AM PST by ken5050
Good morning once again, all you fellow political junkies. Put on a fresh pot of coffee, put the sticky buns in the oven, put a fresh battery in the remote control, and join us for the latest episode of the world's greatest daytime soap opera, "As the Democrats Bloviate." Yup, once again, it's that time...
Salazar ran as a conservative Dim and he's acting like a true liberal. The reality is that any Republican who votes for anyone, including his own mother, with a D behind their name is an idiot. There are no conservative Dims for the most part because the commandants of the Dim party won't let them be.
Yeah, he sure did. I made sure I paid my respects to him, even if I thought he was Perot's running mate. I even paid final respects to Paul Wellstone who I was diametrically opposed to ideologically and Colonel Hackworth who I rarely agreed with on certain issues.
Particularly after calling Santorum a fraud.
Aye = 49 Nay = 23
7 GOP yet to commit: 21 DEM yet to commit*:
Chaffee Akaka Johnson
Collins Bayh Landrieu
Smith Bingaman Lautenberg
Snowe Byrd Levin
Stevens Cantwell Lieberman
Vitter Carper Lincoln
Voinovich Conrad Menendez
Dayton Pryor
Dorgan Rockefeller
Inouye Sarbanes
Jeffords
DEM Crossover = 1 GOP Crossover = 0
Nelson (NE)
True conservatives expect the party to operate from a core set of values. When they abandon or piddle on those values...yes, they can expect the principled among us to look elsewhere for candidates. The Republicans are going to lose elections, not because they are too conservative...but because they've tried to be everything to everybody. The big tent philosophy is what is killing the Pubbies. Here's a great piece, written by a local newspaper editor: A choice, not an echo....
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/mcnickle/s_415598.html
What happened to the principles of limited government and personal responsibility? They're no where to be found in the Republican party....this 'moderates are best' nonsense is precisely why the base is not energized to defeat dems. Moderates are an echo....not a choice.
I know I was shocked when I learned there was a strong link to Clinton and Perot and Clinton -- while being an immoral AH -- is a pretty good political strategist (blackmail works wonders) and I think there is a lot there on the Perot/Clinton strategy. Bush 41 was overall a pretty popular person and they had to use some shenanigans to beat him and knew Clinton, a virtual unknown, couldn't do it all by himself.
so, I would answer NO...
Don't think they can hold the vote up unless Frist lets them. Think they know they lost and want to get this off the front page.
If Voinovich wants any Senate campaign money from the GOP, he will vote for Alito. Vitter better realize that the Louisiana storm aid can dry up real quick. I imagine all except Chaffee will eventually vote for Alito on the GOP side. Chaffee has a liberal electorate and is up for re-election this year. The GOP may give him the go-ahead to vote against Alito since they have Nelson on board.
~LOL~ Only a lib can't think outside the obvious.
They are going to try something, I feel it in my bones. Probably have detectives out trying to find something, anything, to stop this. Where is Frist??????
The more they say the more they give themselves away. It's one thing to teach a lesson, another to shoot yourself in the foot.
Chaffee faces a primary against a more conservative Republican so he may shape up for this vote. I. e., vote FOR confirmation and IMHO FOR the Nuclear Option.
Chaffee faces a primary against a more conservative Republican so he may shape up for this vote. I. e., vote FOR confirmation and IMHO FOR the Nuclear Option.
I surmised last week that Judge Alito would be a special guest of the President at the SOTU, whether or not he had been confirmed by that date. May it be so.
Vitter will surely vote for Alito. If he hasn't announced it yet it's likely because he's busy elsewhere. Voinovich wimps out sometimes but seems solid on judicial nominations. I think Snowe & Collins will support Alito. Chafee's 50/50.
I have to hand it to Der Schlickmeister, he can easily make people make odd choices in their lives, more so than the Beast he married. Hillary! has no concept of strategery, lacks the charisma her rapist husband possesses, and is clearly dumb as a box.
I think all of them are going to come out solid in favor of Alito. The weak sisters from Maine will express some reservations, but will come out with some rhetoric (not necessarily logical) that justifies their position to the moonbats in Maine.
The others, even Chaffee, should be fine with little, if any explanation.
We haven't heard from DEM leadership yet today. That strikes me as odd.
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