Posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:39 PM PDT by jern
Announce Filibuster Compromise
BS and hogwash! The republicans lay down again and don't use their power we voted for.....
"This is simply a battle of wits between unarmed opponents." Almost ... it appears that the Pubbies came to the conflict unarmed, while the democraps have been fully armed, dragging the Senate through their muck all along. Listen to Reid shove the Pubbies faces in the fecal stream of the democraps!
NO, this is payback to Bush for whipping McCains sorry ass in the primary in 2000. McCain thinks he is the Chief Executive. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that senators tell the executive who he can and can't appoint. It is up to the senate to dispose of the Executives nominations. This is HS.
he's dead
We were home-free.
Supreme Court took up abortion/parental consent.
That's a no-brainer. Even MSM can't couch that.
They have given up nothing, they can still vote on the other two right after these 3 are confirmed, they did not agree to withdraw the others names!!!
I'd have preferred an all out win but I can live with this -- grudgingly -- in the short term. The gnashing of teeth over at DU will be all the evidence we need that this was less than the disaster a lot of us feared. An incremental win is still a win, it's just a lot less tasty.
'This is obviously McCain's revenge for the 2000 Republican primaries. What an SOB'
NEVER trust McCain or the RINOS. If this isn't proof, I don't know what is.
It's the just same as if they voted for cloture.
This isn't a deal, it's a mcpain
I hear you. I think you're 100% right about this, tactically. But, of course, Frist will sit on the nominations.
Is Reid a woman in drag? He's doesn't have any masculinity to him whatsoever.
They could call it the French Connection.
Once again they have surrendered in the face of underwhelming odds.
That is exactly right.
The RINOS sold out the party.
This will teach Frist to either vote fast or bring the hammer down on these sonsabitches when it comes to Senate campaign money. The problem is that none of the quisling caucus, the Gang of Fourteen, seems to be up for reelection soon, and those who do have to consider it in 2006 would probably retire anyway if they faced real opposition.
We're screwed again.
I am sick of it. Where do we go from here?
I can't imagine what the point of going to the Constitution or Libertarian parties is. No chance of media exposure except as loopy third parties there. And I can't see giving any more money to the GOP until it stops being the "big-government-but-slower-and-more-efficiently party."
This was the test, and they failed. Three judges that would have been confirmed, and in the process ended the filibuster, humiliated the Rat base, and set up the Supreme Court nominees? Bah. Instead we have the Gang of Fourteen selling out the country and the DU is probably ecstatic.
I hope that nuke is headed for McInsain's office....
I am thinking that Janice Rogers Brown may be a future Supreme. Rush has beden speaking about her especially and the 1990 article.
This compromise gives the Democrats one more excuse to obstruct.
when the RNSCC looks for Republican candidates, one of the character traits they look for is major candyass
Good, let the Dems pay for thier superfluous commercial! (I'm sure they will want a refund)
No. The trigger is bound up in failure to obtain coture, or failure to obtain unanimous consent to vote on ANY nominee. The dysfunctional ones hold the trigger. Always have.
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