Fox: 730pm Press Conference to Announce Filibuster Compromise

[jern]

Announce Filibuster Compromise

[AndrewC]

Two will get you five, if you know what I mean. ;^)

[Fledermaus]

I hate to keep beating this dead horse...but you again are assuming these RINO's will suddenly get ticked off and vote FOR changing the rules.

Sorry, I believe they'll bend over EVEN MORE to avoid it and they'll come up with yet another "agreement" simply because it strokes their egos and the MSM gushes over them like Michael Jackson at a day care center.

http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/AYB2.swf

[TomasUSMC]

Blame the six or seven, not the players or team captain who played their hardest to win.

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What is a team captain supposed to do? Just be a cheerleader. Not on the teams I've been on. He will kick you butt if you don't give your all. And if you stab your team in the back? oh Lord. HE WILL GO ... OBE WAN ON YOU.

BUT in this case the team captain and the coach were in a galaxy far far away.

[ImphClinton]

Well glad you aren't there then.

That is simply the way it works. Always dealing with the Devil.

Filibustering Judges is so pasee though. The Dims fought and lost. Dasshole is gone. Reid will be in 06. They have no other leaders willing to lose their seat over the issue let alone the other coat tails. Byrd is also gone. He will never be reelected after his lies about not changing rules when he did so five times.

-4 every two is bad news. 06 and we will have the 60 if they continue filibustering so they won't. They are simply not quite that stupid. Thus we may only pick up 3 in 06. Though I am sure Reid will make more stupid mistakes. He is good at mistakes in reading America. Jack (non practicing) Mormons do not read America well. GOD also hates them.

[FreeReign]

You again are thinking too optimistic about the future by assuming they won't filibuster SCOTUS anyway. They will. And now we've given them cover to just say "extraordinary circumstances" without even defining what that means.

What if Owen, Pryor and Brown are nominated for the SCOTUS?

[AndrewC]

Not without a reason to.

That is easy, filibuster a judicial nominee.

[Fledermaus]

And you run ANYONE against them in their next primary regardless just to make them waste time and money.

[onyx]

Not sure about the source, but the below was posted by kcvl, so I know it's accurate.

Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada welcomed the agreement - although he hastened to say he remains opposed to some of the nominees who will now likely take seats on the appeals court.

"We have sent President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the radical right of the Republican party an undeniable message....the abuse of power will not be tolerated."

[ARCADIA]

Frist didn't get to decide this fight on his own.

Nor, did he do anything to sway it. He was probably the last guy to find out about this deal.

[Fledermaus]

You are assuming they'll even be on the bench before this summer (they won't) when we'll get one, if not two, vacancies.

Remember, the next fight in SCOTUS will be for Cheif Justice and the Dems will NEVER let a conservative be nominated to fill his associate seat.

Am I whistling dixie or does NO ONE else understand a Democrats "word" is as worthless as confederate money?

[TomasUSMC]

They can not filibuster without breaking this agreement.

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extreme circumstances are just around the corner. This agreement will breakdown this week.

[Soul Seeker]

The 14 have declared they will decide who sits on the court and what legislation is passed. This is not a good thing for anyone.

[davidosborne]

Senate RINOs opposing the nuclear constitutional option

Next Election.... Name.... State.... Phone#

2006..... Snowe.... ME.... (202) 224-5344
Snowe, Olympia- (R - ME) Class I 154 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 E-mail: olympia@snowe.senate.gov
2006..... Chafee.... RI.... (202) 224-2921
Chafee, Lincoln- (R - RI) Class I 141A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 Web Form: chafee.senate.gov/webform.htm
2006.... DeWine.... ME.... (202) 224-2315
DeWine, Mike- (R - OH) Class I 140 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 Web Form: dewine.senate.gov
2008.... Graham... SC... (202) 224-5972
Graham, Lindsey- (R - SC) Class II 290 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 Web Form: lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contact
2008.... Warner... VA... (202) 224-2023
Warner, John- (R - VA) Class II 225 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 Web Form: warner.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm
2008.... Collins.... ME... (202) 224-2523
Collins, Susan- (R - ME) Class II 461 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 Web Form: collins.senate.gov/low/contactemail.htm
2010.... McCain.... AZ.... (202) 224-2235
McCain, John- (R - AZ) Class III 241 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 Web Form: mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Contact.Home

[BigSkyFreeper]

I think he's lost all of it.

[nopardons]

If you live to be 100, you will NEVER know as much as I haves forgotten, about politics, dear, and never be able to understand it clearly.

"Vitriol" ? Yet more of your projection complex showing. If you can't afford help, there are free clinics...avail yourself of their services.

And as far as being a liar, congenital or otherwise, you are an exemplar of that state.

You're the one, after all, who has repeatedly stated on this thread, that if the president wasn't not only aware of this "compromise", but complicit in it, he would be running down the street yelling his head off.

Nope, I'm not a Darwinian, but his take on mutations, just might fit you. You may be "human", but you haves the brain functions of a lemur.

[Fledermaus]

Now that will be quite a trick to get rid of Reid in '06 since his term isn't up until 2011.

And by then Nevada will be leaning Dem by demographics alone with Clark county leading the way.

Geez, do you even bother to know what you are talking about?

[onyx]

Amazing the number of folks here who don't get it and who trust democrats.

[RobFromGa]

Face it...too many like it up the you-know-what and think victory is half a loaf.

That's uncalled for.

To hear normally intelligent Freepers, espcially some that all last week were charging like bulls in a china shop as the debate raged, think we "won something" by being "allowed" by the Dems to take their view, their language and their rules is amazing.

How have we taken the Dems view? They get nothing. If they won, how come they agreed not to filibuster and to vote for cloture on three so-called extreme nominees.

But to actually believe Dems promises is beyond understanding. How often do people need to get lied to before they wake up??

I believe that the Dems might very well lie, but if they do I think their moderate RINO friends will not let them get away with it. If it turns out that they vote down any of these three or that they made other side deals I will reconsider but that remains to be seen.

[TomasUSMC]

A good leader with 55 seats could have won this standing on his head.

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a weak leader with 55 seats and a Strong President.

[Kay]

Hang in there. IMO, you are responding to a woman who is a megalomaniac. She thinks she knows everything and she is vitriolic against posters. Another poster mentioned that she embibes the ETOH and loses control.