This should be all out war. The Senate wants to deny these nominees an up or down vote, then shut down the entire legislative process with the veto pen. No good legislation is going to come out of there now anyhow.
Hey, it's going to get worse. When the conservatives and moderate wimps stay home next time, they are going to give liberal democrats veto proof majorities and the presidency. Already our soldiers and allies are being abandoned by Congress. taxes will go up. More liberal judges. Partial birth abortions. It's ok, the morons who stayed home only consigned 300 million people to this.
I hope the so-called perfect conservatives are happy with their new Democrat Congress.
Republicans weren't perfect, but they were 100% better than what we're stuck with.
Maybe some freepers need a reminder about compromise and not getting 100% of what they want out of any politician.
This clip is from Reagan's autobiography:
When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life .
The Democrats are in charge of destroying any and ALL decent people for the bench.
I blame McCain/Graham for the fact that Haynes will not be on the bench.
Thanks guys for showing me how worthless our old Senate majority was.
The Republicans never showed any cajones on this topic when it was the majority party in Congress anyway. When the Democrats get enough judges appointed to the SCOTUS, every election that goes against them will be decided in court in their favor. I'm finding it harder and harder to see a way out.
I dont want to hear it from those who stayed home this election
the country moved left due to this last election mainly by pissed off conservatives staying home well this is what those of you who stayed home get and it is going to get worse
This is what typically happens when negotiating, and you refuse to use your leverage (veto). At some point, your allies decide you aren't going to help, and the other side decides that if you're not going to do anything, it will walk all over you.
In a concession to the Senate's new Democratic majority, four of President Bush's appeals court appointees have asked to have their nominations withdrawn.
perhaps they were told to withdraw?
The libs in both parties have done a pretty good job of depopulating the Fourth Circuit.
Looks like this district could wind up more liberal than it was when Billy Jeff left office.
Hard to get too upset, all of these were held up during the republican senate rule as well.
The "new tone" is back I guess. Other than the WOT, I've given up on Bush. He's lost his spine since the 2004 election. He and his White House staff (Rove) have been lost since then and haven't put up a fight on much of anything or they chose to pick the wrong fights with their base( Immigration, the Ports, etc.)
The liberals have the conservatives exactly where they want them, which is where the conservatives thought the liberals were just a couple years ago.
Conservatives are splintered now, attacking each other, blaming each other. For years we waited for the inevitable splintering of the Democrats numerous groups, yet it never materialized. Now, it seems it is the conservatives that are cracking up. Blame the politicians, blame the voters, blame each other.
Reality check: Everyone is too blame. Politicians, voters, non-voters alike. But no matter how you cut it (or blame it) it is always the VOTERS who decide the type of government we have so it MUST be the voters that take the brunt of the blame.
Reading posts that now say "Your side" this and "My side" that is disturbing, when all along I thought we were all on the same side.
Silly me.
I really would like to hear what the Presidential contenders have to say about the current crop of judicial nominees being blocked.
But the woman judge who went to the homosexual based marriage ceremony is allowed to stay on.
she is the one who should have withdrawn.
Frist could have taken care of the problem of filibustering judicial nominiations - but he didn't have the tacos to do it.