Democrats Blame White House for Miguel Estrada's Withdrawal

CNSNews ^ | September 04, 2003 | Susan Jones

[11th Commandment]

CNSNews.com) - Senate Democrats won't have Miguel Estrada to filibuster anymore: Twenty-eight months after President Bush named the Hispanic attorney to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Estrada is saying "never mind," The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

In a letter to President Bush, the 41-year-old attorney asked that his nomination be withdrawn so he can end two-and-a-half years of limbo and return to his law practice -- and who can blame him, the newspaper said in an editorial.

"His withdrawal should embarrass Republicans who have been outwitted on judgeships by Ted Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who are orchestrating the first filibusters of appellate court nominations in American history.

"Democrats have paid no political price for raising the 'advice and consent' standard for Senate confirmations to 60 votes from a simple majority," the WSJ editorial continued.

[11th Commandment]

This is an embarrassment. The Senate Republicans should be ashamed. Next time the call for $$ for the Senatorial Campaign, I will say why, it doesn't make a difference.

[dfwgator]

Democrats - You f$#%^@ up, you trusted us.

[rj45mis]

Unfortunately there remain far too many GOP weanies in the Senate. I am hard pressed to understand how the likes of Lott and Frist get voted into such critical leadership positions. Where are the hard-nosed repubs who will stand toe-to-toe with he evil dems?

[jrawk]

The Senate Republicans need to learn a little from the Texas State Senate Republicans about fighting to win!

-- lates
-- jrawk

[VRWC_minion]

Is it really over or have we gone into round 2 ? Bush can still appoint him again.

[putupon]

"His withdrawal should embarrass Republicans who have been outwitted on judgeships by Ted Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who are orchestrating the first filibusters of appellate court nominations in American history.

True, true. They should be embarassed.

But no-o-o-o-o. Today our esteemed leadership off pandering to Kofi Annan and the UN for assistance in Iraq.

[Warhammer]

You know, I'll never understand why the Republicans continue to elect sissies as their majority leaders and why sissies want the job in the first place. They evidently have some sort of ambition to go after the job, so WHY do they do nothing with it when they get it? Bush should be twisting Frist's arm to get his judicial nominees through.

Sissies.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks to you and the rest for piling on for the DemocRATs! They love all of you guys! What I had to say on the other thread is pertinent here!

To: All

Everyone stop and think! Estrada pulled his nomination -- what do you want President Bush to do -- lock him in a closet and demand he stay in the nominating process. Give the man a break!

Maybe some of you should take a deep breath and look at what you are saying -- going to give the election to the DemocRATs now and have them run the Senate on everything -- you want tax hikes -- act like you are acting right now and turn the Senate over to the RATS along with the White House and the House of Representatives all over a judicial nomination.

Senator Frist could not do a nuclear option over a judicial nominee. What is more important -- getting a budget through for our military and the rest of the agencies or a judicial nomination?

Well this lifelong Republican has never wavered, will never waver, and I want the Senate taking up the very important work I sent them to do and that is to pass the budget for the DoD and other agencies. There is a war going on, we have an economy that needs help, and judicial nominations are not at the top of my list!

I have followed politics for more years than I care to admit and I remember Republicans doing the same thing to RAT judicial nominations and I stood behind the Republicans when we were in the minority because the judges were too liberal. Strom Thurmond was one of the best when it came to filibusters.

We do not want to go down a path with a nuclear option and do away with the ability to filibuster. That would be a mistake IMO if we ever become the minority again. If you all don't stop and think for a change instead of reacting immediately, that could happen. Then what have you got -- a truly stalmated Senate or worse yet a RAT President and DemocRAT Senate because of your "principled" stand.

I cannot believe what I am reading on this thread! Have any of you been around politics a long time to go back to the days when we really were in the minority in the House and Senate and couldn't even put a filibuster together unless we got the Southern Democrats on board? Well I do, and this lifelong Republican doesn't intend to go there again.

This can be used in the election if any of you even care about that! Guess it is better for some to blow off steam rather than THINK!

This is my last statement on this thread! You can all stomp your feet, whine, get angry, and do whatever you want but that doesn't change the fact that Estrada withdrew the nomination. During this whole process everyone knocked the Republicans but where was the anger against the DemocRATs for doing this? No the anger focused on the Republicans.

Guess my question now is "WHY?" How many of you throwing fits on here have been Republicans since 1980 -- that means registered Republicans! How many of you have worked in the trenches to get Republicans elected? How many phone calls have you made for Republican candidates? How many precincts have you walked for Republican candidates? How many hours have you spent working in campaigns?

When you can answer that you have been a Republican and supported Reagan (who BTW didn't get every nomination through he wanted and had to compromise), and have been an active volunteer in campaigns, then maybe people will listen.

It is easy to sit behind a keyboard as I am doing right now and gripe, get angry, etc., but what good is it doing to take down the Republicans on an open forum -- absolutely no good -- Estrada withdrew the nomination plain and simple. The RATs at RATs.com and DU must be having a field day watching all of you trash Republicans. They don't need to do a thing -- just come on FR and pull off everything negative said about Republicans and their job is done!

Thanks for making their job easier and those of us Republicans that work campaigns harder.

That's all I have to say on this subject -- flame away but it is a waste of your time. It is one thing to give objective criticsm but to threaten to withhold your vote over a judicial nominee that pulled his own name is ludicrous. If you cannot read and see what you are doing for the opposition, there is absolutely nothing left to say.

Have a nice day and enjoying trashing Republicans instead of the real culprits -- the DemocRAT Senators who used the Rules to their advantage!


194 posted on 09/04/2003 11:05 AM CDT by PhiKapMom (Alpha Omnicon Pi Mom too!)
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[chachacha]

Repubilcan WIMPS spent very litle energy and capital helping him. The government should have come to a complete stop until the Dem's were ready to hold a vote. Shameful Frisk my A**

[Blood of Tyrants]

Playing the victim worked for them last year. I don't think that it will work twice, though. Nobody likes someone too cowardly to fight.

[Digger]

Want to know why? Because it is all part of this corrupt "Two-Party Cartel". These bought & paid for pols by the elites will never allow a conservative agenda to flourish as it would be detrimental to the elites goals. You'll find this out within the next few years as many are are today. You'll see that this cartel is totally beholden to the behind the scenes shadow government.

[twigs]

Man do I agree with you! Not supporting Estrada has not played well with Hispanic constituencies and I'm sure has made the Dems very uneasy, yet their conservative-hating agenda is so strong that they went ahead anyway. Now they have to worry that they will be blamed for this by a sizable part of their voting base. So what do they do? Blame the Repubs of course! And what do we do? Join them! Aargh!

[Digger]

Calling these pubbies sissies is sure more acceptable than calling them what they really are - enabelers to the left.

[montag813]

The Senate Republicans need to learn a little from the Texas State Senate Republicans about fighting to win!

Can you imagine if Tom DeLay was President?

1. Rotating recess appointments starting with Judge Bork. Replaces Frist with Santorum.
2. Arafat assasinated; DeLay high-fives Sharon at White House
3. All Saudi assets frozen, U.S. joins $1 trillion 9/11 victims suit vs. Saudi Government
4. New Palestinian state created--in Jordan. Israel annexes West Bank
5. Drilling in ANWR
6. Signs deal with Iraq and Kuwait for free oil to the U.S. for 10 years (an offer they can't refuse)
7. Authorizes school vouchers directly out of Department of Education
8. Displays statue of 10 Commandments at White House entrance

ETC....

[jpl]

Los Republicanissimos tienen absolutamente no cojones.

[chachacha]

Well you sound like the Wimpy Kneepad conservatives who support that RINO Republican in that moral Cesspool State of america. Nothing matters but the fiscal stuff.

The h*** with gay rights, gay marriages, gun control, affirmative action just spend the money I sent you their to do, take care of the fiscal stuff and the H*** with the Law & Order the corrupt courts. etc, etc, Blah blah Blah

Get on your Knees like the rest of those Kneepad republicans on this site and beg them DEM's.

What an outrage

[COBOL2Java]

You know, I'll never understand why the Republicans continue to elect sissies as their majority leaders and why sissies want the job in the first place

Because the highest goal of a Republican in Congress is to get to be Teddy Kennedy's caddy.

[Gritty]

We do not want to go down a path with a nuclear option and do away with the ability to filibuster. That would be a mistake IMO if we ever become the minority again.

Horsefeathers!

What on earth makes you think the Democrats won't use the 'nuclear option' the very first time they have the opportunity and want to use it?

Do you think the GOP's polite, measured, diplomatic restraint is going to get anything from the Democrats but a good belly laugh and a thorough thrashing? These current Democrats are not the good ole boy Democrats of 30 years ago who at least liked America. These are totalitarian fascists who prefer their own Soviet-style hegemony to the Constitution. These are not people interested in promoting American courtesys, values and mutual restaint in the interests of representative government.

All they are interested in is POWER, theirs, and Republicans are handing it to them at every opportunity, except in the Congress where there is somehow still some semblence of spine!

Screw the pussy Republicans and these b@st@rd Democrats, both. They deserve each other. We don't deserve them - or do we?

[sport]

President Bush has a political party whose leadership not only have no backbone, courage,or guts.

They are a arrayed [sp?] against a political party that has no scrupples or principles.

It is no contest.

[ChewedGum]

I can't post coherently regarding this issue right now. Try me again next month (maybe I will have cooled down by then).

Gum