Posted on 05/26/2005 3:43:28 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket
Bolton fails to get the 60 votes to invoke cloture. Dem filbuster is on.
Make the Dems stand at the microphone 24/7 and keep talking.
NO MORE MONEY FOR THE RNP
I have never accused Mr. Bush of not having physical courage, although your analogy is bad , he didnt even know the grenade was there till the next day. No it isnt physical courage he lacks, perhaps it isnt even courage he lacks just the gumption to forget to be polite all the time and turning the other cheek. That time is over , its time to crap or get off the pot. I know many henpecked husbands who have courage but allow their wives to walk all over them because they want to get along. Piss on getting along he cant be elected again anyway and its time he made someone get along with him instead of the other way round.
You're putting me to work here. I can't remember where I heard or read the info I gave you. I'll get back to you.
It's a free country and this is a free forum where we are free to criticize, yes, even our own Republican president.
I didn't say the Prez lacked courage, so don't put words in my mouth. (With poetic license you apparently found offensive) I criticized his lack of "arm-twisting" with certain Senators with regard to the current nominee impasse in the Senate.
If you think he's not fighting for his judicial nominees behind the scenes, you're not quite up to speed.
(And next time don't state your opinions as facts, OK?)
Sorry, but I see the GOP and the elected officials that represent them as a bunch of hypocrites.
I didn't intend to give you a homework task, but the point you offered is critical, if true. The whole nomination would turn on it.
Thank god I closed my checkbook long ago
Keep it coming. All you third party and DU type
just give us Republicans that much energy to
fight you and your kind.
The dems changed that rule as well. A few years back they made it so a senator only has to call a filibuster by signing a form or some such. Then they all can leave until the opposition has enough votes to call for cloture (60). They don't actually have to get up before the body of the Senate and speak. Worse, the republicans went along with that change as well.
May 26, 2005
BY ANNE GEARAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
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WASHINGTON-- Democrats forced the Senate to put off a final vote Thursday on John R. Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador, the latest setback for the tough-talking nominee President Bush has called strong medicine for corruption and inefficiency at the United Nations.
Democrats contended the White House had stiff-armed the Senate over classified information on Bolton's tenure in his current job as the State Department's arms control chief, and demanded more information before the Senate can give Bolton an up-or-down vote.
Republicans needed 60 votes to end the Democrats' procedural delays and move to an immediate final vote on Bolton's confirmation. But the vote to halt the stalling was 56-42, four shy of that threshold. The final Bolton vote will not take place until at least June, after the Senate returns from a Memorial Day recess.
The dramatic roll call underscored that, despite the compromise the two parties' centrists forged just days ago in a bitter dispute over judicial nominees, most senators still had a taste for partisan confrontation over a polarizing figure like Bolton.
It also raised questions about Bush's ability to win confirmation of some of his more ideological appointees as he begins his second term in the White House. And it was a setback for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who was hoping to end nearly three months of delays and investigation and finally deliver Bolton's nomination for the president.
Frist said the Bolton matter soured the air of cooperation.
"John Bolton, the very first issue we turned to, we got what looks to me like a filibuster," Frist said. "It certainly sounds like a filibuster ... it quacks like a filibuster."
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., said Democrats do not want to postpone an up-or-down vote indefinitely.
"We are willing to vote 10 minutes after we get back in session, if in fact they provide the information," Biden said.
That was . . . brilliant!
Democrats Force Delay of Bolton Final Vote
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=795030
Republicans needed 60 votes to end the Democrats' procedural delays and move to an immediate final vote on Bolton's confirmation. But the vote to halt the stalling was 56-42, four shy of that threshold. The final Bolton vote will probably not take place until June, after the Senate returns from a Memorial Day recess.
And you can say you didn't say what you did say, but it's there in black and white for all to see.
(And notable that you compared THIS President unfavorably with the most 'honorable' LBJ........ I know I really wish President Bush were more like him.........LBJ is my hero.....)
Nuke them Frist, if you have any spine left.
actually they are ALL LIBERALS.
they don't want conservative judges that will strike down their nanny state constuction programs and progress, as unconstitutional.
I have come to believe that all of them are in some degree, communists.
Let us hope Bush gives Bolton that recess appt. As Mort Kondrake said on Fox a few minutes ago, it'd be a big slap at the dems and that's just what they need. If Bush doesn't show his fangs over Bolton, he's a fool. The dems promised Frist they'd cooperate, then stabbed him in the back. That's their standard modus operandi. Lie, lie, lie.
FRIST VOTED NO FOR A REASON. SENATE RULES SAY YOU HAVE TO VOTE ON THE WINNING SIDE IN ORDER TO BRING THE ISSUE TO THE FLOOR AGAIN. HE VOTED NO FOR THIS REASON.
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