Posted on 03/19/2002 2:40:26 AM PST by The Anti-Democrat
Edited on 05/07/2004 9:25:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
You wonder how Sen. Patrick Leahy cleans off the slime following a round of confirmation hearings as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. On any given day, Leahy could be coated with some of the most vile mistruths, slurs and lies polluting American public life.
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Senator Leahy is lying through his teeth. On the subject of hold-ups of presidential nominees, the record of the Democrats is worse in the first year under Bush than the record of the Republicans in the first year under Clinton. More judges total are held up, a greater percentage of all nominees are held up.
More important than the raw numbers is the nature of the nominees sent up by Clinton as opposed to Bush. Clinton sent up nominees who would never apply the death penalty, even to multiple murderers and assassins of police officers. Clinton sent up nominees like the D.C. judge who protected the Democrats (contrary to law) from revelation of the FEC documents showing that the unions controlling the Democratic nominees and platforms.
As for Laehy's charges against Judge Pickering contained in his response to the newspaper editorial, they are character assassination, pure and simple. Both Morton Kondracke and George Will published detailed columns showing the Judge's true record of justice and fairness. On his reversal rate, Judge Pickering fared much better than the average of all federal judges, for instance.
Leahy is taking his marching orders from People for the American Way, the NAACP, and others who don't give a damn about Judge Pickering's true record as a judge. They just wanted to defeat him precisely because he would enforce the law as written -- and that is anathema to Democrats.
Pickering was "borked" (a sad word, because I have worked for Judge Bork and respect him highly) not for Pickering's sake but to lay down a marker against Bush concerning his evential nomination of new Justices for the Supreme Court.
The only way to get Lying Leahy and his colleagues out of their stranglehold on judges who will obey the law as written, is to defeat Democratic Senators one by one in the races this fall. The only cure is to knock Li'l Tommy Daschle off his horse as Majority Leader, which will also knock Leahy off his horse as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Congressman Billybob
Oh, I see. It's not nearly cold enough...
Taken to its extreme a Senate rule could appoint a single member to decide whether an appointment could be voted upon.
The Constitution states that appointments are to be approved on the "advice and consent of the Senate" - not the advice and consent of the majority of the judiciary committee.
Any thoughts FReepers?
I find myself wondering if Leahy has taken another, more recent, trip to his little retreat to pick up more firewood. It's obvious that Leahy does not do any soul-searching when he is "on retreat."
BTW-- What kind of evil lurks in Leahy's neck of the woods? He returns to the Senate as a pretty nasty guy.
>>I would think Vermonters would have better sense >>than keep returning him to the Senate ...
Surely, you jest. If South Dakotans continue to elect two socialists as their Senators, why would you expect northeasterners to get rid of Lay-He?
If I were the President, I would most certainly file such a case.
The Senate may choose to assign a committee to vet the nominee and perhaps even provide a recommendation, but it is the right, I would argue, of each and every Senator to vote on a Presidential nominee a President nominates.
There's got to be a reason Bush isn't filing such a suit.
Their view of activist judges are judges who don't view the constitution as a "living document". When the rat bastard talks about "established case law" he is concerned that Pickering (or ANY conservative judge) would challenge unconstitutional decisions by activist socialist judges.
Leahy is as bad as the Bubba the Rapist. Nothing that lying scum says should be taken seriously.
IMHO he should get going and establish the principle before he needs to make a SCOTUS appointment.
They pour over the judges prior decisions and find any decision they can twist to be examples of unfair practices while they themselves are guilty of the most egregious abuse of power far worse than anything the judges ever did - the removal of the decision making from the senate to their own committee for bipartisan power.
The senators should demand better to prevent a few men from putting themselves in position to make decisions for the whole senate and abusing that position.
Support the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Ronnie White's record was in no wise distorted - he was a miserable candidate chosen by Der Shlickmeister because of one qualification alone: skin color.
He correctly parrots the lies prepared by the intelligent ones amongst Pickering's assasins.
But factually correct: NEVER!
After all, he has his reputation to consider...
(You can do a little research through the archives of e.g. the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Times for the truth about the issues Leahy mentioned)
How'bout posting an article about the new law that was passed in Vermont, banning elephants. Give everyone a clear view of influence that the PETA freaks have in the Green Mountain State.
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