President renominates Charles Pickering

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[Dog]

Charles Pickering is one of 30 names submitted this afternoon by President Bush for nomination to the Federal bench...

[Amerigomag]

but it's usually bad politics to cave in to the opposition like that.

Conservatives simply, patiently waited for the inevitable and then used the resulting political fuss as cover to get rid of this ineffectual King of The Pork Barrel.

Good riddance under any senerio.

[TLBSHOW]

Thanks anyways but as I say hold their feet to the fire!

[VRWC For Truth]

Thanks for the laughs. Haven't seen this much hypocrisy, weaseling, and obfuscation, ala TLB & cyn, since the Keyester Kops starting pulling the same BS.

[VRWC For Truth]

Whatever you say Ratty rat. Bwahahahaha!

[Torie]

Try here. The search I did was something like - "judicial nomination" hold delay home state senator - . Many things popped up, and this was the first that seemed somewhat but not totally useful.

[VRWC For Truth]

"Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric logic, that, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist."

[LdSentinal]

This is not a total shock considering that the Republicans owe their victories in the midterm elections on large to the conservative wing of the party. One of the reasons they came out to vote was the Senate holding up the nominations of conservative judges and they wanted the Republicans to control the Senate. And the June 2002, decision to remove the word GOD from the Pledge of Allegiance was another incentive for them to go out and vote for Republican candidates.

Holding back Pickering, Owens, and the others would have angered the people that got Bush his Senate. No need for another Perot to show up in 2004 to divide the Republican vote.

And as Theodore R. said, the media expected Bush to drop his most "controversial" judges after the Trent Lott "controversy." This is very much a pleasant surprise and with Frist as Majority Leader, criticizing these Bush's picks have become ever more difficult.

[justshe]

Hmmmmm......further readings indicate that the same 'hold' that is used with judicial nominees can also be used on bills...although it would appear that a 'hold' on a bill indicates an intent to filibuster.

[Torie]

Interestingly in the good old days it was far worse. In fact at one time, the Senate even tended to dictate the president's cabinet, and certainly court appointees. I read that in Caro's book on the LBJ senate years. In fact, the Senate was the graveyard for most significant presidential domestic initiatives, except during the FDR depression window from 1933 until the court packing episode, up until really the LBJ landslide. Teddy Roosevelt did most of what he was famous for by executive order of fiat. Yep, it suprised me too.

[Liberty Valance]

Go Dubya Go!

Liberty

[TatieBug]

Dubya's really on a roll today!

[Luis Gonzalez]

Are you being a yenta?

[TatieBug]

Music to my ears! But...I'll have to give the Senators up for re-election in 04 another look...can't quite come up this a +9 at the moment but with Dubya at the helm wouldn't surprise me!

[woofie]

Give it a friggin' rest. He's a whole lot smarter than you.

You seem as though you are in a hurry to get to the point

[bybybill]

Oh, would it have been fun to be in room when Old Leaky and Chuckie learned that the were not dealing with Clinton any more. Boys and Girls, we have a real man that knows right from wrong as POTUS.

[Grampa Dave]

Actually old worn out agendas have no more value than old worn out mantras of the left wing and old worn out left wingers.

The storage cost is minimal when compared to what these agendas have and could cost America. So let hope that GW keeps crating their old worn out agendas and then stores them in DC federal office space no longer needed since the agendas are gone.

[unspun]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/818734/posts

About one of those nominees

[TLBSHOW]

At least I am not a mind numbed robot! That follows blind people around!

Bwahahahaha!

lol

[potlatch]

Filaduster

KQQL!! OOPS, I mean COOL!!

[potlatch]

Is there some small chance we have finally got a Republican with some integrity in the White House?

That's why we voted for him!!

their black little hearts and their small little minds, and their hate.

And their LIES - many many LIES!