Idiot GOP Senate Set to Shaft Estrada?

rushlimbaugh ^ | 2/28/2003 | rushlimbaugh

[TLBSHOW]

I am more frosted at the Democrats for what they're doing to the Constitution vis-à-vis Miguel Estrada's than I am over the anti-war movement. Fox News reported that the GOP planned to call for a cloture vote on Estrada next week knowing they'd lose it. That would effectively amend the Constitution - illegally - to read that you need 60 votes instead of 51 to get a judicial nomination through.

Happily, it turns out the GOP isn't going to call such a vote. The offices of Senators Santorum and Hatch rang up my office on Friday, and said that the Fox story is not accurate. There will be no cloture vote. Hooray! If these Democrats want to filibuster the first Hispanic nominee to the D.C. Circuit Court, let them do it! I know they say there are new rules making a filibuster harder, but so what? And don't tell me that it's not "practical" anymore, because people have to go to the bathroom. That's nothing new.

Force them to get out there and filibuster this eminently qualified man, as rated unanimously by the American Bar Association. Miguel Estrada is just a name to us, but his life is being destroyed here. It's not because he's unqualified; it's because Democrats don't like how he might think. Read George Will's column. Chuck Schumer didn't bother to ask Estrada a single question. He claims not to know any less qualified judge, when in fact he knows less qualified judges who went to the Supreme Court! Just this week, President Bush pledged to stand by Estrada until he was sworn in. We know no other nominee has been asked to give nor should give opinions on issues that may come before the court. Their job is to apply the law, not to make law or let their opinions get in the way of rulings.

These senators have to back Bush and Estrada up. The Democrat attitude is, "We ran Washington for 40 years up until 1994, and Bush is illegitimate despite what the Constitution says about the Electoral College, so he has no right to appoint anyone." These people are treating the Constitution like toilet paper. Calling a cloture vote would overturn more than two centuries of Senate precedent and rewrite the constitutional definition of "advise and consent." We cannot allow that to happen. You have to care about this, folks!

These people aren't Democrats or liberals. They don't believe in the Constitution. They don't believe in individual rights, as affirmed in the 9th Amendment; in sharing power with the states, as described in the 10th Amendment; in free political speech protected in the 1st Amendment and shredded in campaign finance reform. They don't support the right to bear arms provided for in the 2nd Amendment. They don't respect private property rights protected by the 5th Amendment! If there's a blade of grass in the backyard, they call it "wetlands" and take it away! This assault must stop.

Listen to Rush...

(...react to the Fox News story, and reject the notion of a cloture vote by the GOP) (...demand Democrats be made to pay a price for shredding the Constitution)

Read More of Rush's Estrada Coverage… (Rush On A Roll: Anatomy of a Smear) (Rush On A Roll: Want Estrada? Declare Linda Daschle DOA) (The Limbaugh Library: Ken Starr Tips Us Off on Estrada) (EIB A-B: Estrada Qualifications Blow Away Breyer and Ginsburg)

Read the Questionable Fox News Article...

(FoxNews: Republicans Seek to End Debate on Estrada)

Read the George Will Column on Estrada...

(Washington Post: Coup Against the Constitution - George F. Will)

[PhiKapMom]

Last night when the story went up on Fox, Major Garrett's name was at the top!

[marajade]

"Think, if all that energy were spent in prodding our gutless wonders in the US Senate to stand up for the Estrada nomination.....!!!!!!!!"

They are... and this post proves it...

[justshe]

Ah....didn't know that. Thanks!

[TLBSHOW]

was it? or was it like this as a contributer?...

Republicans Seek to End Debate on Estrada
Fox News ^ | 02/27/2003 | Fox News' Major Garrett contributed to this report.


Posted on 02/27/2003 7:22 PM EST by mrb1960


WASHINGTON — History was made in the U.S. Senate Thursday, but it wasn't the kind that Republicans or the Bush administration wanted to confront

[TLBSHOW]

sorry here is the link

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/853356/posts?page=

[PhiKapMom]

I went to the website and it was there in big bold letters at the time of the story "By Major Garrett" and I started griping about Garrett at that time to a Freeper! I was fit to be tied because the story was wrong!

Guarantee you if it had been Major Garrett contributed to the story, I wouldn't have been so mad.

[PhiKapMom]

What happened was I was looking for a story on the Net about the Estrada nomination and went to the Fox site looking for any story I could find. I saw there was a story about Estrada and clicked on it. At the time I saw it Garrett's name was right at the top.

Then when the article was posted on here I noticed it said contributed to by Garrett but I didn't go back and check the website. I noticed now that Garrett's name is at the bottom.

If it had been at the bottom when I saw it last night, I wouldn't have gotten so mad because I would have figured someone else was helping write it.

Either way, Fox wrote a wrong story!

[arasina]

Why are you being so...so...so Dem-like about this thread? Why are you lambasting TLBSHOW for posting it? It seems pretty evident to me that Rush originally believed Garrett's report on FNC and probably got upset about it just like most of US did. I was here as a participant on the live thread the other night --- until 2AM or so --- and it DID seem like the GOP was caving. It was confusing to me and apparently to other Freepers as well. It must've seemed that way to Garrett and maybe he wasn't thorough in his reporting. Today Rush heard from Hatch and Frist who said the Fox report was wrong and he is relieved. What's the problem with that? Why would you say something like "need more schooling?" We should stick together rather than divide!

[TLBSHOW]

they corrected it as the link from last night now goes to the new story with what I see as the only correction so far.

here is what looks like was corrected

this
Frist told Fox News that he had no choice but to call the Democrats' bluff on the filibuster. A vote is scheduled for next Tuesday.

TO THIS

In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he sees no other options but to press for a vote to break the Democrats' filibuster. A decision is expected Monday and a vote could come as early as mid-week next week.

[FreeReign]

Trent Lott could always be counted on to bend over for the Democrats, and and we'll soon see if Dr. Frist is made of sterner stuff. I'm still watching...

Yes we will soon see if Frist is made of sterner stuff than Lott. Lott was terrible -- wouldn't you agree TLBSHOW?

[marajade]

I'm not the one with the problem... I understand completely...

[PhiKapMom]

I was here until 2 a.m. and after and the Republicans were not caving -- Sen Frist, Graham, and Sessions proved that after most people had left. We tried to explain to everyone what was going on that best could be described as psychological warfare by the Republicans. A lot of defeatist on that thread didn't understand what was going on and wouldn't listen. Those of us who stayed until the end figured out what was going on.

Garrett is supposed to know all about the Congress and not make a mistake of saying this was an historic event and that the Republicans lost Wednesday night. It was obvious from his article that he did not observe what was going on.

Read the first part of Garrett's story -- he was dead wrong -- it was not an historic cloture vote as he stated.

[Wait4Truth]

Yes, PKM was very furious last night - as soon as she read it - because she knew the info was bad. Freepers need to stop falling for media spin - it is so often incorrect and starts a lot of heartburn for no reason. Everybody needs to chill on Estrada...the President and the Republicans are NOT going to cave!

[TLBSHOW]

SO YOU DO UNDERSTAND THE CORRECTION AT FOX NEWS HERE

In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he sees no other options but to press for a vote to break the Democrats' filibuster. A decision is expected Monday and a vote could come as early as mid-week next week.

[marajade]

"Freepers need to stop falling for media spin - it is so often incorrect and starts a lot of heartburn for no reason."

Freepers and Rush Limbaugh need ...

[PhiKapMom]

They also took out the first three paragraphs about it being a bad night for Republicans and those paragraphs I commented on which were the really bad ones and the ones that were not correct!

[marajade]

"SO YOU DO UNDERSTAND THE CORRECTION AT FOX NEWS ..."

I understand that Garrett got it wrong... I understand that you and Rush Limbaugh ran with it and got it wrong...

[Jonez712]

I believe they will go 24/7 only when Senator Frist determines it is the right time and only way to get the nomination through. That is true, although unfortunate in my opinion. I would much rather see the Republican leadership take off the gloves and make the Rats look like the fools that they truly are. Remember, they are doing something totally unprecedented in the history of our nation. They're acutally filibustering the nomination of a circuit court appointee, and a qualified one at that. The GOP leadership never did this when Clinton appointed judges to the federal bench, and that was when the Republicans actually controlled the Senate! Do the Democrats truly believe in their heart of hearts that we wanted Ruth Bader-Ginsberg to be on the Supreme Court?? Or are they just the frauds they've proven themselves to be?

[alnick]

The fox story last night was from an exclusive interview with Bill Frist if I read it right.

And the quote from Frist in that story says that he is determined to get Estrada confirmed whether it takes days, weeks or months.

[Wait4Truth]

LOL! Rush found out pretty quickly that he was doing some lousy reporting and came right out and corrected it. Some freepers refuse to do the same. Hence, we are still talking about this dead issue.