Posted on 04/26/2005 12:30:33 PM PDT by ken5050
Just announced...Reid is to speak on Judicial nominations..
Sen. Bill Frist should "stop dividing Americans along religious lines" and "stop trying to do away with the filibuster as we know it," Democrats said on Monday, one day after Frist addressed conservatives about the Democrats' unprecedented filibuster of judicial nominees.
In a Monday-morning message to supporters, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee singled out "some of the most outrageous things" conservatives said at a Justice Sunday event, which was beamed to churches around the nation.
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In its Monday-morning message, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee thanked the 25,000 people who signed a DSCC petition urging Sen. Frist to stop "exploiting his office for political gain." The DSCC said the Associated Press took note of the opposition in its reporting on Sen. Frist's Justice Sunday speech.
"We cannot let up now," the DSCC said. "Just because Frist chose his words a little carefully last night doesn't mean that he's not still planning to bring forward the nuclear option in the next few weeks."
The message tells Democrats to "be ready" for the next phase of the campaign to retain "200 years of Senate tradition."
A vote on changing Senate rules -- to get around Democrat filibusters of judicial nominees -- could come this week.
I caught the end of McConnell.
Sounds like I saved myself a few Advil. ;-)
(I still haven't quite recovered from the Bolton hearings. Did you catch the plagiarism news on the accuser?)
Those quotes are priceless...LOL
I called Voinovich's office this morning and asked where he was when he was missing the committee meetings concerning Bolton. The woman said she didn't know, but said V would be mailing out letters to explain the situation - she took my name and address. I said I would be actively working against his re-election.
DUmmies think this is a ploy, so the dems will look good and the pubbies will look bad. I guess they still don't realize they lost BIG!
Heh heh. Proofs in the pudding. Damn hypocrites.
Reid now quoting 'political writers'. This is too funny. Oh Lord.
When a voting-fraud charge threatened Lyndon Baines Johnson's rise to power in 1948, attorney Abe Fortas lead his defense, and won him the governorship of Texas. To return the favor, in 1965, now President Lyndon Johnson, enticed a sitting Supreme Court Justice, Arthur Goldberg, into resigning from the court to accept an ambassadorship, and appointed Fortas to the newly vacant seat. But when Earl Warren decided to retire in 1968, LBJ once again decided to reward his old friend and appointed him to the Chief Justice Chair. Unfortunately, like Johnson, Fortas rise to power was packed with corruption and greed.
In July, Fortas erred, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee despite the fact that no sitting Justice had ever done so. During those hearings, Fortas lied to the Committee, although he had not yet been caught in that lie. The Senate recessed without voting on the nomination.
When Senator Robert Griffin learned in September that Fortas had accepted $15,000 to give some summer school lectures at American University’s law school, money that had been raised by Fortas’s former partners and clients, the nomination was in trouble. In early October, after a vote to end the filibuster on the nomination failed, Fortas asked that his nomination be withdrawn.
By 1969, further revelations led Fortas to resign from the Court. A convicted financier named Louis Wolfson had agreed to pay Fortas $20,000 per year for the remainder of his life, an amount that continued until the death of his wife if Fortas died before she did. Fortas received the first check in January 1966, after joining the Court, and though he returned it in December, Fortas's actions were condemned as ethically improper.
Abe Fortas, exposed and now a liability to the Johnson administration, resigned March 15th, 1969. His old law firm that he helped create, even refused to let him return."
From ... http://jacklewis.net/weblog/archives/2005/03/march_the_fifte.php
They held up nominees in committee but they did not use the filibuster.
The way Reid is talking
I get the feeling we might have a couple Dems on our side also
What do you think?
When the DEMS start talking about "compromise" that means they are LOSING!
Hope someone tells Reid some matters are too important to compromise......Get over it!
Yup..and if the Dems try to recall Bolton..the GOP should call her to testify...I mean Biden should just LOVE cross-examining a fellow plagarist..
Unintentional, but still amusing. Fake, but accurate. : )
Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel! What, were Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter and Michael Dukakis all busy?
It was a game of chicken..the Dems did NOT believe a few months ago that the GOP had the votes..
McConnell brings up the 1995 Dem attempt to get rid of ALL the filibusters .. had 19 Dem votes
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