Posted on 05/24/2005 6:55:47 AM PDT by AliVeritas
FReepers be prepared for surprises today.
(Excerpt) Read more at c-span.org ...
"I dont mean to have deck of cards, but just to keep score like we did with the deck of cards. Or like FLengineer I think kept score."
We have lots of folks around here who are good at that kind of stuff. Post early on tomorrows thread and ask for volunteers...most of the east coast people have signed off for today. Maybe Cboldt would have some suggestions.
Graham Replay on C-span2 now........Where's my bucket?
Graham is going down!
Graham has DeWine in his back pocket ... er, could be a front pocket ... who knows.
Where is it?
Well put.
DeWine is done as well!
The longer Graham goes on the cockier he gets.
Ooooh, what I was thinking!
LOL! DeWine doesn't even have to kneel.
* I've even seen diehard McCain apologists toss him overboard this week. Mccain made enemies that will enjoy frying him alive in the '08 primaries. *
I'm watching Hardball and Matthews literally thinks McCain is the WINNER in this deal. *&^%^$%$**&%%$$(*^
Buchanan just said Frist may have approved of what the 7 RINO's did. Maybe Bush is in on this too??? The one thing I think I know - IS McCain is NOT the winner. Matthews is day dreaming. Matthews just said McCain is NOT a moderate. LOL LOL LOL
Thanks for the ping .. I missed Sessions .. Lindsey is up now
He really thinks he is the hero of the day ... Big man on campus
He is such a Fool!
He made things worse on ALL sides
bttt
Graham should be going down. Anytime a Senator gets up on TV and says he doesn't care what his base wants, he will do what he wants--time for him to go down.
What can I say Ken, unlike you I never started a thread. Since no one had done so this morning (shocking), I did.
Nice to see you.
I agree that both are suspect, even if this agreement turns out positive.
Good point. I think that's where the "good faith" clause of the agreement is tested. If any of the 7 Dems vote no on cloture without an explanation as to why the nominee is "worse" than Brown or the other 2, then McCain and company will have to force the issue to a consitututional vote if they disagree. At that point the agreement falls apart, and we are right back where we were, except that Frist would almost certainly call for the critical vote.
You were much more calm about the entire compromise than I was at lunch :-) And time may well prove that your analysis was more seasoned, but at this point, I still have grave concerns that we have ceded control to the Democrats when we didn't need to.
That's the point many are making here, and I am probably too optimistic (or obtuse) to recognize it. Seems to me the Dems are under all the pressure at this point.
Imagine a Democatic president and Senate. Imagine them signing this agreement which tells the Democratic president he has to confer with a minority Republican Senate before making nominations. Are you laughing hysterically yet? LOL
Interesting thought. The last rules change was instituted by Democrats, dropping the cloture vote to 60 in response to Republican filibuster use. Hopefully I won't see a Dem president and Senate for a long while.
Keep the faith. The "swing" senators on both sides of the isle who were under little to no pressure before are under a lot now.
They only aggreed to do that for the Owens, Brown and Pryor. For Saad and Myers they committed to nothing. For any others they get to use their own judgement on "extraordinary circumstances", and they can do that without breaking the agreement. However the signatories also agreed, without such any such condition, to oppose rule changes for the rest of the 109th Congress. So if the 7 RINOs, or any of them, vote for a rule change, the Dims can legitimately claim it was the Republicans who broke the agreement. Nice huh?
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