Posted on 05/18/2005 5:48:45 AM PDT by ken5050
Welcome, all you Freepers, to the continuing C-span soap operas about judicial nominations. "The Guiding SEARCHLIGHT, " "As the SENATE Turns, "One NOMINATION to Live" "GERIATRIC Hospital" (for all you Byrd and Lautenberg fans out there). Follow along with us, as the Dems raise the level of histrionics, bloviation, pontification, and all around bad acting to new highs, er, lows...
What time is the replay?
Not yet!
we are adjouned for the evening! See y'all on Thursday! Stay strong! Make the calls send the e-mails!
"We few, we happy few"!
Adjournment. Until tomorrow? I didn't quite catch it.
yes, but I will say this. if these 6 Rs flip, and change what would have been their floor votes on these judges as part of a compromise to avoid the rules fight - I can't blame Bush or Frist for that. Its not like with Bolton, when it was apparent that Lugar nor the white house had even talked with Voinovich about what he was going to do.
these 6 Rs, if they flip, do so knowing exactly what the score is, what is at stake, and where the senate leader and the president stands.
40,000,000 dead babies concerns some of us as well, in spite of the phantom constitutional right to kill those babies ("choose")which you cite. I pray for pro-life judges so that someday the killing might stop and our country become more civilized.
See y'all tomorrow! I had a blast here, thanks to everyone.
C-Span 2 has some metrosexual reporter on from the Hill, promoting the "moderates" so-called compromise.
Oh, you are so right.....that is exactly what he said; I just got carried away!
I never believed their fundmental core changed after 9-11, but for awhile they pretended otherwise.
Now I know who these people are deep within their souls and I want them destroyed politically. There is no room for compromise, they aren't capable of it. the quest for power has driven them to a madness that cannot be reasoned with.
I was taping it
Let me go check now
We know 2 of the S***Head Senators.......McCain and his puppy, Graham.
Well, surely you know that THEY know better than we do. NOT.
And McCain has stabbed Graham in the back so many times, I can't figure out why he still sucks up to him.
OR, you could simply be one of those faux conservatives that periodically come over here from DU in order to try to divide us.
In either case, silence would be your best option, laying low and hoping none of us notice you for a while.
I'm a little irritated they shut debate down for the day.
Oh that. He has so much for which he could apologize. :)
Of cource .. we are just the voters
I feel sorry for anyone who is up for relection on 06
It appears to me that the GOP is standing firm on demanding that every judge get a vote on the floor.
As to your question, it's not certain that it will come to the nuke option. The Dems now recognize they're hanging over the cliff like Wily Coyote.
Their only option may be to try to preserve their filibuster rights for a SCOTUS nominee. I.e., they won't invoke a filibuster on these appeals court nominees...thus Bush's judges will be approved. And if they don't invoke the filibuster, the pubbies can't invoke the nuke option.
BUT, Dems have to know they'll really be playing with fire if they try to filibuster a SCOTUS nominee. I don't think they could muster the 40 votes in their caucus for that. Bottom line: the Dems are going to lose and lose badly, whether the nuke option goes through or not.
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