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BREAKINH!!-- FRIST TELLS REID TO POUND SAND -- FILIBUSTER NEGOTIATIONS HALTED!!
Reuters ^
| 05-16-05
| cww
Posted on 05/16/2005 8:11:22 PM PDT by CWW
Just Reported -- Frist and Reid broke off filibuster negotiations tonight -- Both said, "stick a fork in it, we're done" (or words to that effect).
Reid is quoted as saying that Frist wanted "all or nothing." Hmm -- sounds good to me!
Wednesday is D-Day. Better start loading up Fat Man and Little Boy! We're going thermonuclear!
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; breakinh; dontholdyourbreath; filibuster; frist; histhenewg; judges; scarmable; seriesstuff; ussenate; wherespetronski
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To: nopardons
I cant wait for Cheney to cast his vote in the Senate
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posted on
05/16/2005 8:24:56 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: Petronski
And suddenly, Trent Lott jumps up on the Majority Leader's table in a bouncy squat and with a simeon howl throws a bleached wildebeast bone into the gallery...Ahhhhh, the visual I got from that.
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posted on
05/16/2005 8:24:56 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
To: politicalwit
If Frist was going to fold, he would have taken the offer to approve 5 of the 7 appeals court nominations and the offer not to filibuster any Supreme Court nominees.
63
posted on
05/16/2005 8:25:05 PM PDT
by
CWW
(Mark Sanford for President on 2008!)
To: cyborg
If it happens, it will be a very enjoyable week.
Frist will not turn the launch key unless he's certain.
If he goes, it will be a potentially dangerous schadenfreudische explosion!
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posted on
05/16/2005 8:25:47 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Pope Benedict XVI: A German Shepherd on the Throne of Peter)
To: CWW
Ooh! Get the housework done and crockpot going! Can't miss this one!
65
posted on
05/16/2005 8:25:54 PM PDT
by
Ladysmith
((NRA) Wisconsin Hunter Shootings: If you want on/off the WI Hunters ping list, please let me know.)
To: eleni121
Frist is a lousy candidate for '08. He is not, not, NOT presidential timber.
To: CWW
And so it begins. Now we will find out where everyone stands and who needs to be defeated in the primaries.
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posted on
05/16/2005 8:26:36 PM PDT
by
wmfights
(lead,follow,or get out of the way)
To: RandallFlagg
To: deport
Nuke talks go nowhere Frist plans to begin a debate on a judicial nomination after the Senate acts on the highway bill, either today or Wednesday. If that nomination is delayed, under the latest scenario outlined by GOP aides, Frist eventually will raise a point of order that the Senate should debate the nomination of an appeals-court nomination for a certain number of hours. Vice President Dick Cheney, who would be in the chair, would rule in favor. Democrats would appeal, and the Senate would vote on tabling that appeal.
Even as leaders approached the brink, senators have pushed a number of last-minute efforts to find a way to stop the filibuster short of that action. I think its all still being discussed, said McConnell.
As described by one Senate GOP aide Friday, one option includes changing the Senates standing orders, which have virtually the same effect of rules. Another possibility would be to work out an agreement by unanimous consent, or even to pass a law. Leaders could also simply reach a formal understanding.
Or the Senate simply could invoke cloture to cut off debate on nominations. But by far the most likely option remains the so-called nuclear option, which could throw the Senate into an uproar, Democrats have warned at times.
Another GOP aide said that if Democrats were to offer to allow votes on all seven stalled nominations, Republicans would give up their plans to effect a constitutional option. But Democrats do not appear willing to go that far.
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posted on
05/16/2005 8:27:05 PM PDT
by
deport
(Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue....)
To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
To: cyborg
"This is too good to be true."
It is. The Dems won't let us change the rules. They'll simply NOT filibuster these judges. They need to keep the option open for the Supreme Court.
Of course we (the Republicans) could then filibuster the judges, and then give ourselves the ruling that says a filibuster is not allowed for judges - leaving the Dems completely perplexed, and without their weapon. But are we smart enough (and disciplined enough) to do that? I doubt it.
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posted on
05/16/2005 8:27:58 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: Stellar Dendrite
OMG!!!! Did you really send that? LOL!!
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posted on
05/16/2005 8:28:12 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: RandallFlagg
He will never see it though..I bet he gets millions of email each day.
To: CWW
BREAKINH!!
To: nopardons; Lazamataz; Stellar Dendrite; Boazo; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; Jim Robinson; ...
75
posted on
05/16/2005 8:28:59 PM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: woofie
Yep, that is going to be quite a thing to behold. I can't wait for this to happen. :-)
To: Incorrigible
Hahah...no I just created it as a joke w/ photoshop. It would be cool to send though...
To: Stellar Dendrite
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posted on
05/16/2005 8:29:13 PM PDT
by
Radix
(Having the best Free Republic Tag Lines since...what time is it anyhow?)
To: Petronski
To: pbrown
Mee tooo..
Can you just hear the screams from DC now.. the swinging from the rafters, jumping from tall buildings??
YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!
It is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past time, but I fear by morning, there will be a deal, but Harry Reid has to wear a garter belt, fishnet stockings and stiletto's to the Senate for the rest of the year.
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