Posted on 09/09/2009 2:39:59 PM PDT by montag813
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.
I saw the full list after I posted that... very surprised, hope Utah hold him accountable for his recent voting pattern.
You got the twister sisters for senators, maybe you can work to change that.
“Nudging” America to Give Up Meat
ConsumerFreedom.com | September 3, 2009
Posted on 09/05/2009 3:47:23 PM PDT by Still Thinking
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2333066/posts
Yes, he is. For that reason and others, he’s an embarrassment.
I wish Kasich would run against him, but I think he’s going to run for governor.
I understand the importance very well but I also pointed out that there are some on both sides of the aisles that do not believe that a filibuster should be used on Presidential appointees. In fact, it wasn’t originally used on appointees at all.
Here is the rationale by a Constitutional scholar who talks the Constitution and how filibuster works on bills by the Senators. But here is his take on filibustering nominees:
There is no rationale for a filibuster, however, when the Senate is acting under Article 2 in advising and consenting to presidential nominations. As Crockett points out, here the president is “the originator and prime mover. If he wants to make the process more burdensome, perhaps through lengthy interviews or extraordinary background checks, he can.’ The Senate’s role is to accept or reject the president’s nominees, just as the president has a responsibility to accept or reject a bill approved by both houses of Congress. There he does not have the option of delay. Nor should Congress have the option of delay in what is fundamentally an executive function of filling the nonelected positions in the federal government. In other words—to quote Crockett once more—’it is inappropriate for the Senate to employ a delaying tactic normally used in internal business—the construction of legislation—in a nonlegislative procedure that originates in a coequal branch of government.’
Ok, so basically what has happened is that Cornyn has basically “gotten out of the way” so that the confirmation can even be put on the schedule to come up for a vote. He is not actually voting to confirm the guy, just to allow the vote to be scheduled to happen.
So I guess what everyone is saying by “straight up or down vote”, is that it was agreed not to delay the vote by parlamentary procedures, but just get on with the voting?
Tryin’
The problem is this: Snowe and Collins are NOT weak in Maine. Every time they run for re-election, the democrats run someone to the left of Teddy Kennedy! In comparison, Snowe and Collins look like conservatives, which they are not. Snowe won re-election in 2006 with 71% of the vote, running against an unknown anti-war moonbat.
Southern Maine.....aka “North Massachusetts,” is the most heavily populated portion of the state, many liberals reside there, many transplants from Massachusetts, many liberal-leaning voters.
Northern Maine....more conservative, but a great deal of poverty, an aging population, pro-Second Amendment, but many citizens who want big government programs because of a lack of jobs and many pockets of poverty.
Maine’s two House members are democrats. The governor is one as well, and the state Senate and legislature are controlled by the dems. There are some good conservatives in state government here, but they are in the minority. A friend of mine ran for the state Senate here last November.....he’s a conservative Republican....but he lost.
I will never vote for either Collins or Snowe in future elections....I’ll be doing a write-in vote.
Nope. 7 pubs.
Bovine Scatology.
By that twisted logic, we could never have brought up this guy.
As for Hatch, what was untruthful about what I said? He does believe he will be a "god" someday on his own planet. It is part of his belief.
Tell me I am wrong, and why. Facts please. Don't just repeat that it isn't "FR friendly", whatever that means.
He couldn't be much :in the way", beyond objecting to voting, and then casting a NAY vote for cloture - which is how he voted on that. No senator has the power to maintain a perpetual block over the wishes of a determined 60.
-- So I guess what everyone is saying by âstraight up or down voteâ, is that it was agreed not to delay the vote by parlamentary procedures, but just get on with the voting? --
Technically, 63 senators said "lets get on with the vote," and the NAY votes said "not so fast, we aren't ready to vote yet." 60 being ready to vote forces the body to take the vote.
No, we were UNLUCKY that Graham and McCain were NOT part of the 7. The fact that they weren’t means that we have SEVEN more morons in ADDITION to Graham and McCain!!
Heh. Also of the Republican Main Street Partnership.
Anyway, not that Maine is void of rock-solid conservatives, just that the GOP apparatus here resembles, as a matter of principle, a wing of the DEM party. They LIKE big government, because they ARE big government.
Don’t you think it’s one thing to vote for a fence and another to fund it? What was the context, what *else* did the Senator say? I can’t find the article, do you have a link? I believe that you don’t understand what you quoted.
However, this Dallas Morning News article
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/050809dnnatborderfence.4053ed2.html
refutes the idea that Senator Cornyn is against funding the fence (or that the fence isn’t being built, since 301 miles of 370 planned miles are completed).
In addition, here http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/2296782, he says that the fence is vital to national security, even though some towns might have to give up property:
Look up the votes on the funding - it’s not as simple as picking one news source on a portion of a single statement about one aspect of border security. Even Numbersusa, a single issue website that does focus solely on immigration issues, gives him a B+
Here’s some info on the bills
http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=14540&can_id=9490
http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=15967&can_id=15375
Go here to see how these jerks voted.
At least you got through to his Cornyn’s office. I tried 5 times and got pushed into some stupid phone loop where they were asking for his location number or extension or something like that which of course, wasn’t available on his website. I’m from Texas...Cornyn better publish that letter.
You're right. I missed Bennett.
No, what you suggest is ambiguous. It sounds as though one vote covered two items of business:
“They voted not to filibuster, but ALSO not to confirm him.”
The vote not to filibuster did not include a vote to confirm or not confirm. It’s a separate vote, as you know, but your sentence conflates the two vote subjects.
“They voted to not filibuster the nomination, which means they can now vote to confirm or not confirm him.”
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