Posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:39 PM PDT by jern
Announce Filibuster Compromise
Yep. Except that we know 3 are going through. The DemocRats know they would be blown out of the water on the female appointments.
That is why I earlier questionned why McCain felt the need to mention there was NO GUARANTEE, only that this agreement assured them an up or down vote. I reserve my TRUST to those that have earned it and none of the RINO's at the podium earned it.
I called Frist, Santorum, and Sessions today (predeal) and told them to filibuster Owens and that way they can do the Constitutional option!
At this point, hard to say if it's worth it or not though. We'll see.
#1045...Thanks hattend!!
To quote Fledermaus when I said something like what you just said,
"Oh really? So you like the idea of throwing 2 judges away? What a crock of crap."
We just got smoked. Frist is a wimp.
How many votes does it take to change senate rules (for the nuclear option)?
I agree with you. Frits, it pains me to say... because I still like him, but they "all wanted to SAVE the country-club." They just did not know how to engineer it.
He lost my vote for president. We need someone with more b***ls and more conviction. Ala Delay or Bush. I've always said it, these guys are NOT stupid... they know how to play the game. The "Country-Club" is what matters to them.
We MUST MAKE THEM PAY!
They are actually enjoying the idea that we are pissed.
ONE of the things that happened, is that FRIST GOT NEUTERED by McCain.
McCain showing that he can defy Frist and the Republican Majority -- with the help of other rogue RINOs and Democrats.
Is there any way to recall McCain?
Basically we have a NEW MAJORITY: the DEMOCRATS, aided and abetted by 7 RINOS.
THIS IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.
And Frist stood by and was not able to stop this.
Would that be King John ILL?
Ya, because the deal says that what is extraordinary is totally subjective and in the eye of the beholder. Granted, in a really eggregious case, I suppose some Pubbie would say that the finding of extraordinary is clearly ersatz and disingenuous. Anything is possible.
If Brown gets to the SCOTUS, it will be a MAJOR victory for Bush and vicariously, the GOP, IMO.
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Gotta love these quotes:
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
We no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable. Indeed, the majority's zeal is more than a little endearing. There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
The public school system is already so beleaguered by bureaucracy; so cowed by the demands of due process; so overwhelmed with faddish curricula that its educational purpose is almost an afterthought.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
Hewitt also said, no matter what, a good deal this is not (to paraphrase Yoda).
Wanna bet?
Congress has no term limits.
Check and see how long these folks have held their seat or been in DC.
That's the true power in Washington.
That is a viable response. What you are saying is that this White House is too weak to respond to something like this. Bush doesn't really care about how his own party votes unless of course they are voting against his pet welfare projects, in which case he will work the phone all night.
How many votes does the nuclear option require? Isn't it a super majority?
No, we haven't agreed to any such thing (sheesh, give our people *some* credit). The Dems have agreed to not overuse the filibuster. If they do, they violate the agreement and we can go right back to the nuke option.
I'm with you. Now we know of at least two votes Ollie will get next year!
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