LIVE THREAD: SENATE FILIBUSTER!! Call Capitol Swtchbrd 1-800-648-3516 to Protest Dem Obstructionism

www.freerepublic.com | November 12, 2003

[Howlin]

FILIBUSTER BEGINS AT 6:00 P.M. EST!!!!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Agree!

[Republican Wildcat]

Oh, but that's not quite correct...the Democrats have taken that poll onto the Senate floor and put it into the record during this debate.

[OldFriend]

Would appreciate hearing how Coleman performs......thanx.

[RandallFlagg]

NY Times?! -HA!

[TomGuy]

By the time the major media spin this 30-hour marathon, it will make the Republicans look like a bunch of whiners.

The Dems will come out of this smelling like roses by continuing to rant that the important work of the Senate-- jobs/prescription drugs/appropriations/etc -- is not being done because the Republicans are doing this silly talkathon circus.

This 30 hour marathon was not one of Frist's better ideas.

[Steve0113]

Frist's server is getting slammed. I can't get the page to load anymore.

[fiftymegaton]

I think there were 15,000 NO votes in a matter of about 3 minutes. I think you are right about the hacking.

[RandallFlagg]

Bushbashing now from demrat

[A Citizen Reporter]

Senator REID:

4 HAVE NOT BEEN DIS-APPROVED!!!

They have not had a VOTE. VOTE, UP OR DOWN.

BUT QUIT LYING!

[Darlin']

"I saw earlier this year when he did the beat-down on Hildy and he was truly amazing"

I wish I'd seen that one. LOL. I'll bet it was sweet.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Sen. Coleman was only on for a minute to ask Sen. Hatch a question. Can't remember what it was. Suspect Norm will have more time later...

[Right_in_Virginia]

Why is Reid (d) talking about jobs?

Didn't he get the memo for tonight's "show"?

[georgejr]

Does Reid know what he is talking about? What a nut, he keeps saying 3,000 jobs, when his chart clearly says million. What an ididot.

[OldFriend]

LOL.....I'll take Dodd and LIEberman if you'll take Corzine and Lousenberg!!!

[hoosiermama]

Maybe they took the page down because is was being hacked?!

[Maigrey]

I was wondering if Sen. Lamar would get passioned about the debate.

Sen. Reid is up now, and he is really getting annoying.

Why whine about jobs when the forum isn't interested in it at this time.

[rs79bm]

Democreep now talking about jobs, blah, blah, blah. Why is it the democrats keep bashing American corporations, the very companies that hire Americans and create jobs? They've got their message all backwards.

[RandallFlagg]

Now, they're running a campaign ad.

[Mo1]

I just check .. they haven't sent one out on the poll .. but they did send one out on these Judges


Dear MoveOn member,

For months, Senate Democrats have been heroically holding out against President Bush's nominations of extremist judges to America's most powerful courts. We've supported these Senators in this fight. Now the right wing is trying to break our resolve.

Despite the fact that the Senate has confirmed 168 of his nominees, the right wing is hopping mad that we've blocked just 4 of the most hard-core ideologues. We've insisted that only moderates be confirmed for these lifetime appointments to positions of incredible power over our
lives. They're refusing this reasonable compromise.

Republicans have scheduled 30 hours of debate in the Senate on this issue, beginning TONIGHT. They're hoping that our friends there, who have courageously supported filibusters* blocking the most extreme nominees, will fold under this pressure.

We've got to buck up our friends in the Senate. Please join us in signing an important petition, cosponsored by the Democratic National Committee, at:

http://www.
If you sign on now, the DNC will hand-deliver your signature, along with more than 100,000 others, to Senate leaders on Thursday, in time to make a real difference in this debate.

This debate is about appeals court nominees, but we all know it's also a test run for a possible Supreme Court vacancy, which could occur soon if justices Rehnquist or O'Connor retire. Experts consider either of these retirements a strong possibility. (It looked like one might occur last summer, when we first launched this petition.)

Our campaign to stop Bush's extremist nominees has been extraordinarily successful so far. Miguel Estrada, who was widely thought to be President Bush's top pick for the Supreme Court, withdrew his name from consideration after Senators filibustered his nomination, supported by more than 40,000 phone calls from MoveOn members. This was a major victory -- the first time Bush has conceded defeat on any nomination.

Your signature on this petition will support filibusters against these other right-wing ideologues:

- Janice Brown, whom the New York Times described as "among the very worst" of Bush's nominees, also writing that: "As an archconservative justice on the California Supreme Court, she has declared war on the
mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear."

- Priscilla Owen, who represents the "far right wing" of the Texas Supreme Court. One of her many rightward dissents from that court's majority opinions was described as an "unconscionable act of judicial activism" by Alberto Gonzalez, who was then also a justice on the Texas court but is now President Bush's chief White House Counsel.

- Carolyn Kuhl, who threw out a suit brought by a woman with breast cancer whose doctor had brought a drug company salesman into the examining room where he witnessed an intimate examination of her. A unanimous appeals court later reversed Kuhl's decision.

- Charles Pickering, who took extraordinary and ethically questionable steps to try to reduce a mandatory jail sentence for a man convicted of burning an eight-foot cross on the lawn of an interracial couple.

The debate begins tonight. Please sign on now, at:

http://www.

Thanks for all you do.

Sincerely,

[Republican Wildcat]

Fresh back onto the Senate floor from his lie session on Fox News--Harry Reid calls on Republicans to start discussing the facts.

Reid now says we need to talk about the 'fact' that the president has lost 3 million jobs under his watch and has done nothing to improve the economy, and that 44 million Americans "will go to bed tonight with no health insurance." Says we don't need to worry about the judges because they already have jobs.