[wagglebee]

How differently things would have been if Frist had used the nuclear/Constitutional option last year.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Sen. Charles Schumer, of New York, was more strident .... "We will do everything in our power to see that that unfettered abortion happens," he told Newsday, saying filibusters should be expected. He added that Bush "will have to negotiate with us perform an abortion himself, because we'll have the majority."

There ... fixed Schmuckies statement .....

[Mo1]

Guess this is another one of those lessons we are suppose to learn, huh?

[Gaffer]

W just doesn't have the balls to tell them that he will veto everything they pass. If he truly understood what Democrats are (i.e., the American equivalent of Islamic Terrorists) he WOULD get the balls and veto everything...

[Zack Nguyen]

To Senator McCain and the other Republicans who cut the "Gang of 14" deal: meet your legacy. Your compromise has made it terribly difficult, well nigh impossible, to pass conservative judges.

If you and your fellow Senators had allowed the "Constitutional" option, we would get a straight up or down vote and most likely win, because several Southern Democrats would have gone along.

[alarm rider]

True. But that would have required a set on the Hill and at 1600.

[plain talk]

Well if Bush is asked he should say he rejects any notion of litmus tests. he should fight this battle on his own terms and not allow them to dictate litmus tests. What did Clinton do about Republicans even thinking about applying litmust tests to his judicial nominees?

[Salvation]

Bush can nominate who he pleases. Then we can watch the dimocrats continue to be obstructionists!

[Fester Chugabrew]

I find it hard to believe anyone with a sane brain would run under the Party of Abortion and expect to get elected. Apparently it happens. The blue dog and moderate dems ought to call the crazy left on this, tell them to kiss grits, and work toward nominating federal judges who are originalist. No matter where we stand in the way of fiscal policy it makes sense to protect the unborn until we are certain both morally and scientifically they are not worthy of protection. Even then it still makes sense. More lives = more productivity and more taxpayers. :)

[Recovering_Democrat]

This is the result of losing power in Congress. And of course the Republicans never once talked about the need for conservative judges in the '06 campaign.

You conservatives who refused to support Republicans, you too are partially to blame for our current state.

[cpforlife.org]

“How does one pretend to be an innocent bystander at a mass murder.”
Abortion: the Silent Holocaust

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[montag813]

This is no different than before. They could fillibuster anyone before and can do so now. Jim Webb and Ben Nelson are likely to support Conservative nominees, so they don't really have a true majority.

[IrishCatholic]

Translated for the common person. You will put in who we want.
That's what happens when you have one side that won't play by the rules and the other side has no backbone.

[Redbob]

Does anyone here think one single GOP senator will have the balls to filibuster the Dims?

On anything at all?

[Lancey Howard]

How differently things would have been if Frist had used the nuclear/Constitutional option last year.

Thanks to a few RINOs, the attempt to "go nuclear" would likely have failed. Do you have any idea, any idea on earth what that would have meant?

[antiUNcitizen]

If Pubs dropped the nuclear option last year, no one would be able to filibuster anymore. Wouldn't that be like shooting yourself in the foot, because now the Pubs can use it against the Dems? Or am I missing something here?

[F.J. Mitchell]

The pro-abortion party. Continuing the mass murder of babies is the most important item on the demon dims agenda.

Did the fools that allowed them to win, forget that fact or did they just not give a damn?

[A CA Guy]

LET HIM PROPOSE WHO HE WANTS AND HAVE THEM SPEND ALL THE TIME TRYING TO DENY THEM ALL IF THEY WISH.

Let the people see that for 2008.

[pollywog]

How differently things would have been if Frist had used the nuclear/Constitutional option last year.

.......AND ruffle the feathers of the demo's and moderate RINOs??? sacrasm.......

[DarthVader]

Ping

So much for the pro-life blue-dog democrats.

[xzins]

The nuclear option would make no difference in the new Senate.


Democrats are the majority.