Posted on 09/09/2009 2:39:59 PM PDT by montag813
That means at least 4 filthy Republicans supported it. Disgrace!
The GOP party apparatus in Maine is an insider's game. Cohen, McKernan, etc. Even the "big name" conservatives in the state don't get a fair hearing, unless they do it on their own dime.
My dear FRiends, we need to keep Obama’s feet to the fire, and make him sweat. He doesn’t like a challenge or to lose. We keep the pressure high for him, and he will crack, and explode like a pan of Jiffy Pop. I’m praying his TelePrompTer goes out tonight and he bumbles and rambles. I hope he’s so worried about tonight’s speech, that he’s constipated and has hemorrhoids.
He’s pushing back at us right now just to give his ego a boost. He’s nothing but a long-legged nothing, following marching orders from his communist buddies.
I wonder what was promised to them for their votes.
Collins and Snowe. I should have known. I am shocked that Lindsey Graham did not vote him in. Can the GOP PLEASE throw out Collins and Snowe already, those two idiots are a disgrace to the GOP
oops - I meant Bennett of Utah.
Both Utah Senators voted aye.
This pisses me off - as I am about to move to Utah.
Wow. Was right on Snowe, anyway. Some so-called ‘Republicans’ really need to look at themselves in the mirror.
good cop bad cop wake up
It has to be someone from the state that the nominee is from. That would be Cornyn or Hutchison.
The Senate schedules its votes by unanimous consent. If consent is not unanimous, then debate continues, until consent is unanimous. You can see that this might cause votes to never happen, faced with a single obstinate Senator. So, in order to limit debate, the Senate uses a device called "cloture" (roughly out of Roberts Rules of Order), where, if enough of the members are ready to vote on the underlying matter, they can get around the senator(s) who is withholding consent to vote. IF 60 Senators agree to limit debate (i.e., "pass the cloture motion"), then debate is limited, and the will happen, notwithstanding the withholding of consent to vote by one or a few (up to 40) senators.
Failure to get 60 or more votes for cloture means debate can continue. The subject of debate isn't disposed of in any direction, by the cloture vote.
Yep, he did.
Any senator can object to, and delay, voting to confirm any nominee, for any position. The home state courtesy relates to nominations for judicial appointments, and the "blue slip" is an artifact of the judiciary committee process.
Foxes (egg suckers) in the chicken house.
You are not alone...we hear you and we are with you...patriots all!
he a play the games to get over on the pople
Yes, we understand what a cloture vote is. We also understand that without a cloture vote, there is no up/down vote. This is what was done to Miguel Estrada and others. We understand that, as usual, the pollyanna pubs turn the other cheek and “do the right thing” to give the nominee an up/down vote, which nearly always ends in confirmation, while that civility is NEVER reciprocated.
Without a cloture vote, there is no confirmation. That is the only way to stop the appointment, not through the up-down vote. With 7 pubs voting aye on cloture, it gives cover to moderate rats to vote aye on confirmation even though they voted nay on cloture. So, yes, we know the difference. But apparently there are some such as yourself who don’t understand the importance of it.
This quandary that Big Zero is foisting upon us is actually a benefit to my wife.
She gets so PI$$ED off and seething mad that she is eating less and running more miles every day. In the past couple of months she has dropped three(3)dress sizes.
I am now living with a Italian Banshee. If she is in the house only old B/W movies are allowed on the TV. Don’t anyone mention Obama Catholics or the Kennedy’s. Thirty three + years ago when we met she thought JFK and Jackie were the greatest.
Boy how things change.
The rats outnumber us but more than twice as many pubs crossed over than did rats.
This story NEVER changes. And the rats didn’t even NEED 7! They only needed 4!!!!!
Yeah, he’s more worried about his reputation than he is what draconian monstrosities he visits on his constituents and the rest of his fellow Americans.
John McKernan? Maine’s ex-Governor and a Republican?
How is he going to take on Olynpia Snowe? He MARRIED her, in February, 1989. Talk about sleeping with the enemy!
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