(DAY-2) LIVE U.S. SENATE "Nuclear" THREAD: for judicial nominations: C-span 2 - 9:30 am EST

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[davidosborne]

Text Credit to Ken5050: DAY-1 THREAD

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...

[Carolinamom]

Keep good notes for me....I've got to pick up my dogs at the groomers. Back ASAP.

[Fledermaus]

It means the president alone has the authority. No consent or vote required.

[Sacajaweau]

Look at the Congressional records from the beginning. The actual votes and conclusion (passed or not passed) are all there.

[sirthomasthemore]

Pay no mind to these sanctimonious 12 Senators. They have no power if Frist stands firm.

Frist simply says to McPain and the 5 other traitors, vote against the nuclear option- if you dare.

The justification that a filibuster will thwart extreme candidates, is a false issue. A TRULY extreme candidate (NAZI) won't not be nominated; and if so, not confirmed.

The sanctimonious 12 are just trying to be power brokers, and straddle the fence as is their modus operandi. Frist should call the bluff of the Sick "GOP" 6, and thereby, get them on the record. We can take it from there.

[corbe]

Where is the HildaBeast throughout all this?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sessions is calling Boxer as being inconsistent with her statements when Clinton was President

[lugsoul]

Article One, Section Five, Clause Two.

"Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings"

[Political Junkie Too]

I agree with the point about changing the rule. If the filibuster (constitutional or not) is a measure of the intensity of passion within the minority, then the desire to change the rules is the measure of intensity within the majority to support their position.

-PJ

[easonc52]

This is EXACTLY what needs to be drummed in at the senate - Democrats PUT OUT MEMOS last year on how they would obstruct any and all President Bush's nominees, ideas, bills, etc...

And that is emphasized in this RNC add (Party of NO)...

[OXENinFLA]

Yeah, they're busting out the dems past quotes now......

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sen hatch from Utah is up next!

[OXENinFLA]

HATCH on the floor............for 30 mins

[Peach]

Orrin Hatch up.

I'm going to have to log off soon...thunderstorms moving in.

[ken5050]

Raising money..

[maxter]

"Sen Bond did us proud!"

Absolutely!!

[NeoCaveman]

I called DeWiner's office. The gal that answered the phone was very nice and she was being bombarded with calls.

[defconw]

Well Frist, Specter, Lott, Sessions, Bond, Smith, McConnell, Hutchinson. I think that's all the Republicans.
Dems: Stabenow, Reid, Schumer,

Anyone else gang?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hatch commenting about the fact that Sessions had previously been denied a judgeship by the DemonicRats and now he is a member of the Judiciary Committee.....

[KC Burke]

It means that Congress could "vest" (delegate) appointment power of lower appealant court judges (exclusive of the supreme Court) in the President alone by writing such a law.

Don't look for Congress to approve a law which takes that much power away from the Senate, but it could be done. Likewise, in the subsiquent congress, such a law could be repealed as any law can be repealed.

[Howlin]

Good!