Posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:39 PM PDT by jern
Announce Filibuster Compromise
Only if Hillary REALLY needs him to.
Political naifs, pretending to be "experts" and telling people who REALLY understand this stuff, that they don't. Ahhhhhhhh...FR, a place that allows mental midgets to spout garbage and pretend it's 24 carat gold. :-(
Yimach shmo ve zichro.
This is the way I read it.
Dems:
"We will vote for three nominess who would have been confirmed anyway. In return, the GOP promises not to go nuclear if we filibuster. We will filibuster only under extrodinary circumstances, but it is our call as to what those circumstances are. (Psst...When the time comes we will make another deal. Everyone knows the GOP runs fromn fights, but you didn't hear it from us..)
BTW...the President should consult with us before sending a nomination to the Senate."
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Some effin' deal.
Well, then, we get what we can in 109th, defeat two more Dems in '06 (and possibly some RINOs in the primaries), and cram everything we can down the Dems' throats in '07.
I agree with you.
HILLARY 2008!
What exactly did the Republicans lose with this agreement?
It's a good thing Frist didn't follow his statement with READ MY LIPS!!!!!
Perhaps you could use the correct term "blind-sided" instead of "blind-sighted"; the latter term is imprecise and undercuts your arguments.
It's galling.
Group hysteria, let's get some perspective ....
The buzz in the blogospere is frantic over the compromise reached by the 12 Senators concerning the 5 Judicial nominees offered up by George Bush. Here is my take, the Republicans won this round. Here's why:
1) We have an up or down vote guaranteed on the 3 most contentious nominees Brown, Owen and Pryor.
2) We have given up nothing. The Dims promised not to filibuster unless under extraordinary circumstances. The other two nominess can be brought to the floor and if filibustered the Dims can be made out to be liars because the 3 most arguably extreme judges have already been allowed through.
3) The nuclear option can still be be used at any time.
4) The Dims got absolutely nothing except it allowed them a way out of this morass without totally losing face.
5) It will be virtually impossible for the Dims to try and filibuster one of these nominees if they are ever in line for the Supreme Court because they have already capitulated on them.
I was never sure that Frist had the votes to go nuclear, if he did he will have them a few weeks down the road should they be needed. The crapweasels blinked and we are better off now then we were a week ago.
What I know is a defeat when I see it.
And I really hate to think about your other alternatives because it would show 1) weakness is inherit with this party or 2) we've been played.
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Yeah, he sure did. And he wants to be President? NEVER. He just killed any chance he ever had. He's a socialist pig!! Republicans are gutless little girlie men. They make me sick.
Politicians are much like diapers.. they need to be changed often, and often for the same reason
Anyone see Lazamataz? I know he's going to be disappointed.
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