Live Thread: Estrada Confirmation Filibuster

http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | February 12, 2003

[Howlin]

As requested, a thread to follow the filibuster.

[Howlin]

Ah, has it started? It LOOKS like it has, but it's hard to tell!

[Howlin]

Jon Corzine is speaking now, about what, I am not sure!

[jwalsh07]

Dingdong from NJ lecturing on marxonomics.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Present, but my wife says there is no accounting for me.

[ken5050]

Thanks Howlin....the interesting point is that only a few Dems are willing to publicly oppose Estrada.....I'd say that about this afternoon or tomorrow, it's time for another blast from Zell Miller....

[cyncooper]

Do I have to?

LOL!

I'll monitor the thread. What a disgraceful lot, they are.

[Mo1]

Oh he was talking about the budget last year .. you know the one the Dems never passed

[cyncooper]

Filibuster Ping

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you, Howlin!

Members of the Judiciary Committee:

 

Orrin G. Hatch CHAIRMAN, UTAH	Patrick J. Leahy RANKING DEMOCRATIC MEMBER, VERMONT
Charles E. Grassley IOWA	Edward M. Kennedy MASSACHUSETTS
Arlen Specter PENNSYLVANIA	Joseph R. Biden, Jr. DELAWARE
Jon Kyl ARIZONA	Herbert Kohl WISCONSIN
Mike DeWine OHIO	Dianne Feinstein CALIFORNIA
Jeff Sessions ALABAMA	Russell D. Feingold WISCONSIN
Lindsay Graham , phone or snail mail. SOUTH CAROLINA	Charles E. Schumer NEW YORK
Larry Craig IDAHO	Richard J. Durbin ILLINOIS
Saxby Chambliss, phone or snail mail. GEORGIA	John Edwards NORTH CAROLINA
John Cornyn TEXAS

[eureka!]

Bump for a later read of great FReporting...

[Roscoe]

bump

[OldFriend]

Toll free number to call the US Capitol.....they will connect you to any congressman or senator....1-877-762-8762

[legman]

Jon Corzine is speaking now, about what, I am not sure!

Dividend tax cut.

[Fred Mertz]

Is this on C-SPAN 1 or 2 or 3? It isn't on 2.

[Mo1]

the interesting point is that only a few Dems are willing to publicly oppose Estrada

Durbin was on earlier, he said he couldn't vote for Estrada because Estrada won't tell who his hero's in the Surpreme Court are

[coder2]

dingdong is an apt name for him...

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

This morning:

 

Sen. Hatch: "I want to correct the record. We did not us Weapons of Mass Destruction, we said Weapons of Mass Obstruction."  The tactic of obstructing the Senate was suggested by liberal law professors ("who ought to know better!") during a 2001 meeting, according to Sen. Hatch.

 

"The first time in history - to risk the whole, doggone judiciary, for partisan politics."

 

"The real reason they're doing this is because they're so afraid that this brilliant, young hispanic lawyer may be tapped someday (for the) Supreme Court."

 

"He's one of my close personal friends." Orrin, re. Sen. Reid

 

"I've never seen anything like this. Not in my whole time in the Senate. And I think it's wrong."

 

"And you know what's driving this? (outside leftwing groups).. led by the People for the American Way." "My colleagues on the other side are listening to that stuff?!"

[Mo1]

It's on C-Span2

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

[swheats]

Thanks Howlin.

[Howlin]

HUH?