Posted on 05/23/2005 8:19:01 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Former Presidential Candidate Gary Bauer issued the following statement late Monday as news of the "travesty" to justice deal on stalled judicial nominees was released.
The President of American Values said: "This is a sad day for our nation. The desire of millions of Americans to restore balance to our federal courts has been thwarted behind closed doors by 14 senators. Only three of President Bush's appointees are guaranteed an up or down vote under this sell out.
"Under this agreement it is now more likely that radical social change will continue to be forced on the American people by liberal courts committed to same sex marriage, abortion on demand and hostility to religious expression. The Republicans who lent their names to this travesty have undercut their President as well as millions of their most loyal voters. Shame on them all."
this is Senate rules, not Constitutional rules
Octopussy/8
What then? This is precisely why politics is called "the art of the possible." This sort of thing is what is going to keep the Sunni, Shi'a, and Kurds from butchering one another in Iraq, and believe me, if you think the Dems and Pubbies are passionate on the issue, those boys make us look calm by comparison.
We can't stop fighting for our judicial nominees, of course. It's just going to have to be under slightly altered conditions, if in fact they are altered at all. This is just really interesting, and I'm going to have to consider the matter at much greater length to say any more.
I don't know anything of course as nobody could at this point in time. It is just that the state is trending GOP and his is racing to the left. His performances in general are probably a bit embarrasing to increasingly suburban W.Va.
I read a little something about the GOP putting a true conservative up against him that had come very close in a prior statewide election. That could make this something like Thune v. Dashel hopefully.
OBITUARY
The Republican Party, suffering from a long and debilitating illness, passed away tonight. Despite efforts by the majority of voters to support in record numbers, it succumbed to repeated attcks by viral agents named John McCain, Frist, Snowe and Chaffee, among others.
Autopsy results indicated a total degeneration of the intestines (guts), spinal chord (bacbone) and testicles.
No wake is expected as no mourners are available.
Requiescat in oblivion.
That's pretty much the point.
The term is meaningless.
When the next confrontation rolls out we'll be treated to all sorts historical misrepresentation. All of a sudden we'll be told the entire constitution rises and falls on the foundation of the exceptional circumstances standard. Never mind it just got made up. :-)
I don't trust them. I preferred changing the rules because I suspect the GOP will never filibuster any radical Dim nominee.
But now that we have this deal, we have to evaluate how good or bad it is.
yeah, I know, most are moderates. What I find interesting is your side seems as equally pissed as those at DU, but I think you got a great deal and really gave up nothing, and why should you? You won Congress and the executive branch in 2004.
It was not a sell out. It was black mail.
The reason this happened is the FBI Files the Clinton Administration grabbed on the Republicans. They are afraid the Dems will do to them at the Dems did to Henry Hyde.
Anytime something this stupid by the Republicans comes up, every time you say to yourself, "how stupid can the Republicans be?" this is the answer.
And the answer for all of us is to vote out the Republican incumbants in the next primary. We have to get the extorted GOP members out of Congress.
Hell, if we tell him it will set a Sssssenate Precedent, he'll probably volunteer!
Nope, it was a boneheaded move by the Republicans. Bauer is right on.
rope.
You're assuming that Democrats have a future as a majority party, and everywhere we look we see democrats losing elections and power.
If we judge every present day rules change by what may happen years into the future we'll change nothing, and judicial activism will always be with us.
We live in the present, and we have an obligation to our children to make this country as safe for them as possible. That won't happen by making deals today based on what may happen years from now.
OH YES!
You know, I think he's hanging on JUST to break Strom's record.
I really, really, really want him to lose!
He is an embarrassment. Arrogant old fool.
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Judge not, that ye be not judged.
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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with
what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote
out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
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Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brother's eye.
Bauer supported McCain. He needs to shut his pie hole.
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