Skip to comments.
Fox: 730pm Press Conference to Announce Filibuster Compromise
Posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:39 PM PDT by jern
Announce Filibuster Compromise
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; 2008; bbsforballs; betrayedagain; brinkmanforcongress; candyassrepublicans; castratedrino; castrati; cowardicegop; defeatdewine; dewine; filibuster; fillibusted; fooledagain; goats; gopcojonesinajar; johnmccain; johnwarner; lyingdemocrats; mccain4dnc; nomorerncmoney; notdonatingtornc; olympiasnowe; packmonkeys; partyofthecastrated; payback4scprimary2k; reacharound; rochlab; sellout; sellouts; shirleypants; sodomy; spineless; spinelessbastards; tulipbreath; turass; ussenate; warner; weakness; weasels; willywonkagut
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 1,301-1,320, 1,321-1,340, 1,341-1,360 ... 2,481-2,482 next last
To: jackbill
I think the poster *meant* to say "blind-sided", as in getting side-swiped from a blind spot.
1,321
posted on
05/23/2005 6:18:51 PM PDT
by
alwaysconservative
(Maybe Newsweek should run everything past Matt Drudge [for accuracy]. -Ann Coulter)
To: Fledermaus
So IF you are correct, then it shows Bush sold us out too. I wasn't going to say that because I didn't want to get banned. This could have been a game all along.
Think how you would act if you were the President and you were just blind-sighted by members of your party? Would you mad at these "mavericks?" If you just blind-sighted the President, would you expect retribution coming from the White House. Under what circumstances would none of the above take place? One is if the White House is so weak that it couldn't do anything. Or, how about the alternative that it was orchestrated with the White House? Bush saves his face with conservatives by nominating ones he knows wouldn't be confirmed. The "moderates" save their's by blocking them. In the meantime, party die-hards get played.
To: AndrewC
I guess this means that from now on, Bush will have to appoint all conservative minority women to the federal courts.
To: StarFan
Lanny Davis isn't gloating?
1,324
posted on
05/23/2005 6:19:10 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
To: pepperhead
Hate to stick up for either Frist or Lott but it is hard to lead when you got bunch of RINO's stabbing you in the back.
I don't what the real legal realities of our political parties are. But, partners who fail to represent their organizations are usually disowned. Frist should threaten to remove the names of these 7 senators from the Republican rolls. They can call themselves Independents, or Democrats, but they should no longer be allowed to sit, or run, as Republicans.
1,325
posted on
05/23/2005 6:19:19 PM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: Kenny Bunkport
Then I would say that Frist never had the votes to approve a nuclear option, if this is the case. He is 2 votes shy in the 109th Congress.
It also means 1) Frist has no control over the Rep. caucus,
No control over 7 RINO traitors
and 2) McCain is the traitor everyone says he is.
Traitor McCain
To: Kenny Bunkport
Maybe.
I think it's been bad PR by the GOP. First, they let the term "nuclear option" be used.
Second, they didn't attack...they never do.
Frist wanted to get all the Senate business out of the way first and that was smart. But once that was accomplished he should have been laying more of the ground work for this move.
1,327
posted on
05/23/2005 6:19:20 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Nothing in this RINO deal gurantees Brown, Owen and Pryor will be CONFIRMED!)
To: StarFan
Frist et. al. have been telling us for months that ALL NOMINEES DESERVE AN UP OR DOWN VOTE. Anything short of that is a no win, IMHO. And the agreement does not foreclose that. The next move is to see what the disposition of Saad and Myers are. If Specter keeps them in committee, we look for reaction from the WH. Will Bush withdraw the nominees? Or will he insist they be put to the floor for a vote? If so, we'll be right back to where we were this morning.
To: Windcatcher
"The Dems dodged a bullet today and they darned well know it. They came *this* close to losing everything, all of their judicial power, for the next thirty years"
The repubs had a chance to change history and end 60 years of democrat domination in the Senate. Instead they chose political correctness which in and of itself is defeat.
The detonation of the nuke option is no longer a done deal as the RINO's have shown they are unreliable and cannot be counted on when push comes to shove.
1,329
posted on
05/23/2005 6:19:52 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(The Republican Party is the France of politics--Lazamataz)
To: Kenny Bunkport
This is UNACCEPTABLE.
The anger and disappointment I feel at the complete and utter lack of principle and testicular fortitude on the part of the leadership and membership of the RINO caucus in the Senate could only be measured on a galactic scale at this moment.Yimach shmo ve zichro.
To: ChildOfThe60s
To: GraniteStateConservative
Agreed. Frist can't control the caucus and the White House's lobbying on The Hill has been pathetic.
1,332
posted on
05/23/2005 6:19:56 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(So....Is means testing now a conservative value? Apparently 40% of FReepers think it is.)
To: umgud
I, too, would have preferred the nuclear detonation --about two years ago. I just wish the Pubbies could learn to unwind the dem spin. Dems have lied sooooomuch about the judicial nominees.
It is utterly disgraceful and unconscionable that the Repubs let it go on for so long. They should have been running ads in the states of Reid, Levin, Kennedy, Schumer, Harkins, Landrieu (that would have really dne some good, cause she barely squeaked back in in a run-off)--and other senators that should not have been supporting this foul obstructionism.
vaudine
To: All
Would people quite spinning a win? Do you realize what they just did? these 14 have just taken over the Senate. Apparently Lindsey is now announcing these 14 will craft their own plans on Social Security.
Shut down the Senate. leave these 14 the keys, the rest are irrelevnt.
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
They've called them all extreme, including Scalia.They can call them whatever they want, but when Frist pulls the trigger, the Republicans better be calling them extreme if the Democrats expect to win the rules vote.
1,335
posted on
05/23/2005 6:20:06 PM PDT
by
AndrewC
(Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
To: Kenny Bunkport
the best time to push the nuclear button was in January. Good point. One of the problems is that this whole thing dragged on way too long. It gave the RINOs time to build up their venom.
To: clintonh8r
I'm not the majority leader. Are you denying his leadership failure? Nope just asking you how you would have handled the situattion since it seems you think you know better than Frist.
1,337
posted on
05/23/2005 6:20:26 PM PDT
by
Dane
( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
To: Ex-Democrat Dean
But the Republicans still have the nuclear option! That was not dealt away! The Dems didn't win a thing! No, they don't. They told America it wasn't important. Why should America view it as important if Republican in the Senate do not? Now, America will say that some other half-measure will do, because it did today.
1,338
posted on
05/23/2005 6:20:32 PM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: Will_Zurmacht
I feel kind of bad for President Bush too. The gutless Republicans in the Senate make President Bush seem like a weak and ineffective leader.
1,339
posted on
05/23/2005 6:20:35 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Don't hate me because I'm a player)
To: Protect the Bill of Rights
What you are saying is that the White House is incredibly weak. That is not always true, especially when it comes to spending. I can guarantee you this deal was struck with the full knowledge of the White House.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 1,301-1,320, 1,321-1,340, 1,341-1,360 ... 2,481-2,482 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson