Posted on 05/13/2005 4:59:18 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
Minority Leader Harry Reid strayed from his prepared remarks on the Senate floor yesterday and promised to continue opposing one of President Bush's judicial nominees based on "a problem" he said is in the nominee's "confidential report from the FBI."
Those highly confidential reports are filed on all judicial nominees, and severe sanctions apply to anyone who discloses their contents. Less clear is whether a senator could face sanctions for characterizing the content of such files.
"Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway," Mr. Reid said on the floor yesterday, about the Michigan Appeals Court judge who is nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
"All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree that there is a problem there," Mr. Reid continued.
Republican staff members and supporters of Mr. Bush's nominees were outraged.
"Can you think of a better way to trash someone's reputation?" Sean Rushton of the conservative Committee for Justice asked after seeing a transcript of the remarks. "Say that there is bad stuff from an FBI investigation in a file somewhere and leave that hanging. This is character assassination of the lowest order and completely improper."
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Call Senator Reids office and complain!!
yup , One Foot in the Grave , the other on a banana peel
You missed my point...he's dumb like a fox.
Well, someday someone will cross too far over the line, and it will be obvious to all.
Maybe this is the day.
Harry Reid and Janet Reno KILLED A HOOKER??????
This one is a replay of what Nixon was accused of!Using The IRS against your enemies!!heh,heh,heh!!!!!
NO McCarthy was correct. Reid could not make a pimple on McCarthy's butt.
Seeing as how "Star Wars" mania has hit, your great quote reminds me of Vader's quote to General Veers in "Empire Strikes Back", concerning the soon to be dead Admiral Ozzel: "He is as clumsy as he is stupid."
LOL. Yeah, that too.
"I'd like to know who started the story about Harry Reid killing a hooker in Reno."
Just to watch him die. Then, something, something, and he hangs his head and cries.
Janet Reno is a HOOKER??????? Harry Reid said it was in her FBI file???????
YEAH , HER SPECIALTY is HANDJOBS [/srcsm] [sorry to All in advance!!]
I did not miss it. I just don't agree. He may seem dumb like a fox. But in reality he is just "dumb."
Just to watch him die. Then, something, something, and he hangs his head and cries.
One can hope. It is Friday the 13th ;-)
To quote Laura Ingraham from just a minute ago:
"I'm back on the market."
Last Senate censure I can remember was Thomas Dodd (D-CT and father of Christopher 'Waitress Sandwich' Dodd). I think the vote was 92-5, so a lot of Democrats joined in.
The censure was for malfeasance with campaign funds.
If the Senate applied those standard today, a lot of Dims would be in line for a censure. Including sHrillary.
Ha. Good point.
Bad luck to Dingy Harry.
I want to see Reid in a perpwalk.
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