I've called all the Republican senators on the judicial committee. Some of them have been tallying the calls and emails, etc. Orin Hatch's office told me that this is Frists' decision to be made on 11/17/2004.
I think Frist is wimping out...he addressed the Federalist Society one? two? nights ago and said:
"One way or another, the filibuster of judicial nominees must end," Dr. Frist, Republican of Tennessee, said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers' group. "The Senate must do what is good, what is right, what is reasonable and what is honorable."
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Dr. Frist told the members of the Federalist Society here that Democrats were abusing the filibuster by extending it to the Senate's role of confirming presidential nominees. "This filibuster is nothing less than a formula for tyranny by the minority," he said, adding that if Democrats use procedural tactics to block more nominees, they "will have effectively seized from the president the power to appoint judges."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278087/posts
I'm sure the democRATs are shaking in their boots....NOT!
Evil thrives when good men do nothing.
Let's "vow" to Bork Specter
Frist is a wimp weenieeeee.....
What I want to know is what do the Republicans plan to do about this "tyranny of the minority" other than talk about it? This same crap has been going on since before the '02 election and they are still talking and talking and talking.... When are they going to DO something? Or are they? So far, they appear to want to keep the problem since it has worked well to keep them in the majority. At some point ('06?) the benefit will end.