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Fox: 730pm Press Conference to Announce Filibuster Compromise

Posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:39 PM PDT by jern

Announce Filibuster Compromise


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To: onyx

Astronomers have just reported a supernova above the Carolina coast. It was Howlin, going ballistic...


1,901 posted on 05/23/2005 8:36:41 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Stellar Dendrite


ROTFLOL! Hilarious!


1,902 posted on 05/23/2005 8:36:51 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: gswilder

But don't forget, Frist said all options, including the nuclear, are still on the table.


1,903 posted on 05/23/2005 8:37:41 PM PDT by maxter
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To: al_again

The "seven" will face NOTHING, but high praise from the MSM And the drooling admiration of the likes of Lanny Davis and Chrissy Mathews.


1,904 posted on 05/23/2005 8:38:10 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Cboldt
"This is the essence of the agreement: The Republicans have agreed not to ban the fillibuster -- as long the Democrats don't use it."

Unfortunately, that's not what the "agreement" says. But you're welcome to think it does.

1,905 posted on 05/23/2005 8:38:11 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Soul Seeker


Sick-ken-ning. That one little runt, DeWine, whoa, I wanted to smack him..lol.


1,906 posted on 05/23/2005 8:38:23 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: JulieRNR21

Such "Extraordinary circumstances" to be determined by - you guess it - the Dims.


1,907 posted on 05/23/2005 8:39:47 PM PDT by Tabi Katz
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To: Lazamataz
there are 100,000 people who silently are sitting, stewing ---

100,001 ........ but then again, now I'm not silent.

1,908 posted on 05/23/2005 8:39:55 PM PDT by beyond the sea (I’m sleeping with myself tonight.........saved in time, thank God my music’s still alive)
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To: Nucluside; bad company
I respectfully beg to differ.

As much as conservatives-especially fiscal conservatives-like to carp about the leadership of Bob Dole, he was-on balance-one of the most principled advocates for his party, specifically, and I'd even argue the conservative philosophy, in general, that has ever served in the U.S. Senate.

From his vigorous effort at the beginning of his career to offer the free market alternative of Elder Care, in lieu of LBJ's adventure into socialized medicine for retirees, to his unstinting support for the state of Israel in its relentless battle against Islamic terror states, to his fierce advocacy of reform for the entire underlying structure of AFDC-while being entirely cognizant of the fact that this welfare reform, with the signature of Bill Clinton, would have a distinctly negative impact upon his presidential campaign that year-to perhaps his most impressive achievement, completely stopping HillaryCare dead in its tracks, there was never a moment when Senator Dole shirked his duties to either his party or his country.

I think that a lot of people too often mistake comity for complaisance.

The fact that he enjoyed cordial relations with his colleagues-even those, like George McGovern who held obnoxiously leftist viewpoints-does not mean that he was a pushover.

Not in the least.

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

1,909 posted on 05/23/2005 8:39:56 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("What in the world happened to Gerard's tag-line?")
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To: maxter

Where have you been? Frist is not running the show, McCaniac and Bird brain are along with the 12 other "moderates" translation: traitors in sheeps clothing. Frist is GUTLESS and so are the rest of the republicans! He also said that all of the president's nominees should receive an up or down vote! With this "deal" that is NOT going to happen.


1,910 posted on 05/23/2005 8:41:00 PM PDT by Jmouse007 ("Negotiate and die!" Brought to you by "Islam the Religion of Peace tm")
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To: over3Owithabrain

Exactly. The other 86 are really stupid to permit this little faction to rule, but, since the democrats are the minority, their lefties like Schumer, Boxer and Leahy are most pleased to see the GOP gelded.


1,911 posted on 05/23/2005 8:41:12 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: RobFromGa
By spinning this as failure we are allowing the opposition to frame what the decision says.

I'm beginning to wonder if casting the nuclear trigger as being in GOP hands wasn't a deliberate setup, to permit the DEMs to save face while losing their asses. Plus, the GOP squishess are going to get an earful. Good chess, if somebody was looking that many moves ahead.

1,912 posted on 05/23/2005 8:41:24 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

Bob Dole gave us TEFRA in 1982.


1,913 posted on 05/23/2005 8:41:50 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (Forget Blackwell for Governor! Blackwell for Senate '06!)
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To: FreeReign
That shouldn't matter one whit! As MAJORITY LEADER, it is up to Frist to reign in the doggy ones, by whatever means necessary. He not only didn't, he has no bloody idea how to.
1,914 posted on 05/23/2005 8:41:54 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: onyx

I'd like to smack DeWine so hard, that his glasses break over the bridge of his nose.


1,915 posted on 05/23/2005 8:42:30 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Don't hate me because I'm a player)
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To: onyx
Lindsey Graham: "Democrat by night"

Well, according to a former Daschle aide, Graham was quick to work with Daschle and the minority on a number of issues. After one such meeting, Graham emerged from Daschle's office, walked to the door, turned around, and proclaimed loudly for the Daschle's entire staff to hear:

 
                                                  Senator Lindsey Graham

1,916 posted on 05/23/2005 8:42:33 PM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: You Dirty Rats

Except he won't want to make the loyal Republicans pay, but I do think he should recess the appointments the other would deny. I do think in every way imaginable he should make these seven feel Hell on earth.


1,917 posted on 05/23/2005 8:43:09 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Cboldt
WRONG/INCORRECT! That is NOT at all what just went down.
1,918 posted on 05/23/2005 8:43:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Cboldt

Please, you overestimate the intellegence of the Republicans and those running the so-called republican "Party".


1,919 posted on 05/23/2005 8:43:29 PM PDT by Jmouse007 ("Negotiate and die!" Brought to you by "Islam the Religion of Peace tm")
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To: RobFromGa

McCain .................... cannot ever be trusted on anything.


1,920 posted on 05/23/2005 8:43:35 PM PDT by beyond the sea (I’m sleeping with myself tonight.........saved in time, thank God my music’s still alive)
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