Posted on 01/27/2006 7:56:53 AM PST by johnmecainrino
I don't think they have the votes to sustain a filibuster. They are playing to their base and looking silly to the other 90% of the country.
All three of them are just posturing for their extreme left base. Now they can say they did what they could to avert this "travesty".
Just once, I wish one of them would back up their "extreme radical" name calling with some sustantive examples.
The Democrats loudly and roundly condemned South Africa when it was a minority ruled government and today Democrats are saying their minority should rule. I guess some animals are more eual than others.
What makes you think Ginsburg would leave SCOTUS within the year? I doubt we would see another liberal justice leave the court unless they actually died. Instead, they would hang on in the hopes that HRC would be naming their replacement.
You're counting Byrd twice, which is twice more than he counts.
I'm sure I'm remembering this incorrectly, but wasn't it just a few months ago the infamous pansies (gang of 13 or whatever it was) all pledged not to invoke filibusters EXCEPT IN EXTREME CIRCUMSTANCES?
Brave RINOS like McCain (the Ross Perot for 2008) and others put it together...
I knew the very first one would be considered extreme. But how come no one is mentioning this "agreement"? Or am I just incorrectly remembering the whole debate and action taken.
I've seriously thought so, for some time.
That Mr Bush wouldn't be comfortable putting JRB through all the nonsense the Dems were threatening to pull.
But next one up; who knows?
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