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...
Who said anything about him using a bible?
I wouldn't be suprised to see him pull out a freaking Koran.
#170...LOL, do you mind if I make that ...coffee :)
With all due respect...
And this is just my opinion, but Roe vs Wade will NEVER be overturned.
Although, please understand I think it should be. Now that I'm older and wiser, I can understand how a supreme court of the era inflicted a moral ruling on us all without benefit of our own votes.
It's too late now. I'll even admit that back in my day I was a wild-eyed women's libber and believed fervantly in a woman's right to have an abortion.
I never, not in my wildest dreams at the time, thought that living babies, able to live and function on their own, would be pulled from a mother's womb in the ninth month of pregnancy after its brain was pierced by a knitting needle.
At the time there were few birth control options. Again, not in my wildest dreams did I ever believe that someday one would be able to put on a simple patch and have no fear of pregnancy for a month not to mention any bother.
This was an era when women were dying via back alley abortions.
I never, ever thought abortion would become a form of birth control for God's sakes.
Now....no way Roe vs Wade will be overturned. To do so will be seen by the vast American public as a punishment against women.
Imagine the first woman convicted for having an abortion once its made illegal. Every pundit, every talk host, every Democrat, will be screaming and yelling until the American public will have had enough.
Or, imagine this, a 12 year old gets pregnant by her father. She is denied an abortion.
Please, the sound and sight bites over the possibilities stagger my mind.
At the very least abortion should be limited to the first trimester. And government funds should not be used to fund abortion as birth control.
There must be some compromise although hey, there really should be no need for abortion at all.
I'm a very different woman than I was back then.
He might claim that Pricilla Owens and Janice Brown are 'strange women'.
They are not winning the publicity battle.
People see what's going on and they see what skunks the Dems and MSM are.
It's a rearguard action. Try to get the "non-controversial" judges approved and then you can claim that you were reasonable and it is the evil Pubs that want to get their extremist judges on board. It's essentially the Dems "compromise" proposal from last week. Glad to see that Frist ain't biting.
He's starting of great. I hope he and they can keep it up.
Sounds like Reid knows how the voting is going to go, and he doesn't like it.
You're now on my "make sure to ask their opinion" ping list...(g)
Schumer is the front man for the Dems in this fight. He threw down the gauntlet four years ago when he blatantly admitted they would fight against judges over ideology rather than competence.
I'm glad CNN, FOX, MSNBC are televising this along with C-Span2, and hope they stick with it.
Frist-should minority deny nominees a vote that have majority support?
We will choose principle over politics...senate better for it....quoting Daniel Webster about the inspiration of the senate body.
Pointing out one party has held all branches before and nominees were not denied.
Frist: "Are 76% of Californians out of the mainstream?"
Probably Bill, but not because of this issue.
Incoming!
My thoughts!
I hope that the reps can produce something from AG Gonzalez to rebut the crap about his calling Owens too radical...
otherwise, that is ALL we are gonna hear, doncha know.
Heck I could see her even voting for the nuclear option.
Think about it.
Triangluation.....the Clinton have made that into an art form.
lol
This is a very good moment for Frist
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