That coughing spasm...is this a cup of water or a spittoon?:
Posted on 01/25/2006 5:46:02 AM PST by ken5050
Jayna Davis had a lot of interesting information about Iraqi's who came here after the Gulf War 'pretending' to be refugees when in fact they were spys and that the Third Terrorist was an Iraqi who eventually ended up working at Logan Airport on 911.
I heard that on the radio this afternoon also. BUT if GWB is acting as CIC in fighting a war that has been authorized by Congress (and it has) then GWB doesn't have to go to Congress to get a "Mother may I", nor can Congress write any law that either takes away his Constitional authority, or diminishes it in any way. Toon was truly spying domestically, on his political opponents, and in time of peace.
A. Future Nominations. Signatories will exercise their
responsibilities under the Advice and Consent Clause of the
United States Constitution in good faith. Nominees should only
be filibustered under extraordinary circumstances, and each
signatory must use his or her own discretion and judgment in
determining whether such circumstances exist.
E. Benjamin Nelson (D-NE) John McCain (R-AZ)
Mike DeWine (R-OH) John Warner (R-VA)
Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Susan Collins (R-ME) Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Mark Pryor (D-AR) Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Ken Salazar (D-CO)
Lincoln Chaffee (R-RI) Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI)
http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/compromise.pdf
Salazar says NAY to the nominee, and NAY to the filibuster. Nelson says AYE to the nominee. DeWine, Graham, McCain, and Warner are FOR the nominee. So who's left?
Lieberman, Pryor, Byrd, Landrieu and Inouye are "cut off" from voting for a filibuster.
Collins, Chaffee and Snowe are reduced to irrelevancy. Funny how karma works.
By the time the segment ended Sean had the guy tripping over his own tongue... Amazing you can get elected to Congress or the Senate and not have a basic understanding of the Constitution.
Only 41 votes are needed for a filibuster. If Reid has nearly 44 votes against Alito, every one of those Senators should support a filibuster or their vote against Alito is meaningless.
They don't have the votes for a filibuster
Voting Alito down and voting for a filibuster are two completely different things
Sounds like a number of senators are worried about the long term effects by forcing a filibuster
That coughing spasm...is this a cup of water or a spittoon?:
Besides makeup - what would cause white lips?
i.e. if they hold up vote (no mention of Filibuster) then he will hold up all business until there is a vote... at this point he should keep everyone in session and get this done, not let Lahey and Reid call the shots on when this vote is going to take place -- because they keep pushing it back.
Hopefully, there is some way that Frist could call their bluff...and get that vote no later than Friday...
So Bush could really pour it on during the SOTU speech...but, I do fear that they are going to force Frist to call for a cloture vote...which could push this to next week.
There is no way I'm wading thru 2300 posts....can I get a recap of how it went today....just got in from work.
Spittle, milk mustache, fear, near-death experience...
It's still going on I think. CSPAN 2 shows 49-23 for Alito right now. At least one Dem crossed to pro-Alito.
Good evening, NN.
FR just crashed here...I couldn't get back on the site..
No surprises, no drama. Best part was Leahy calling Hatch out for making unfounded accusations. Leahy wouldn't even let Hatch defend the accusations.
Senate leaders have been conspicuously absent, leading to all sorts of speculation. CSPAN-2 is running an informal tally of pro/con votes, which is now set at 49-23.
LOL...sure!
heh, heh, heh....
But from what I can gather .. the dems did their it's Bush's fault for everything and Alito hates women, blacks and children routine
There wasn't as much passion behind their speeches today
What seems to be interesting is that they were suppose to debate till 11pm tonight .. but cut it short around 9:30 or so and no one knows why
Thune closed the session for the day instead of Frist and Reid hasn't been seen for a long while
The DU is still pushing for a filibuster .. they claim Reid is saying they have 44 votes against Alito .. but not enough to vote for a filibuster
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