Posted on 06/08/2005 5:13:10 AM PDT by ken5050
Good morning, fellow political junkies. I'm starting the thread early, because I'll be out and about for much of the morning. Follow along, and comment here, as usual..
I'm glad that is a gray puddle on a yellowish floor rather than the other way around...
Well, my damn cable is OFF!
Yeah, and now he is saying that Brown shouldn't be confirmed because Boxer and Feinstein say so :-).
Just when is sKerry going to present that Downing Street Memo, we've heard so much about?
ahhh, I yearn for the days of worms turning, and turnip trucks! :-)
What time is the vote supposed to take place?
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Who is really out of the mainstream?
Senate Democrats are flailing. Senators Schumer, Boxer, Kennedy et. al. are beside themselves right now as the Senate marches towards a final up or down vote for Janice Rogers Brown this evening. The writing on the wall is becoming clear. First Owen, now Brown, next Pryor and more to come...Republicans are squeezing every last ounce of possible momentum out of the Senate filibuster deal and the left is not happy about it. As a result, their rhetoric on the Senate floor is becoming more and more desperate and irresponsible.
Yesterday, amidst Senate debate on Janice Rogers Brown, Senator Schumer attacked the 5th Circuit nominee for speeches she has given expressing her conservative views. He said, "I cannot think of a single nominee in at least my lifetime who is more out of the mainstream than Janice Rogers Brown."
Really Senator Schumer? Not one single nominee? I can think of a many...but for the sake of brevity, let's just talk about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg, who received her up or down vote in the Senate within weeks of her nomination was approved overwhelmingly by a bipartisan Senate. But she was anything but mainstream if we judge her by her expressed views:
Ginsburg had argued that statutory rape laws were sexist and outdated, and the age of consent for sexual activity should be lowered to age 12.
Ginsburg had advocated making all prisons and reformatories sex-integrated.
Ginsburg had argued that traditional marriage laws that prohibit polygamy were probably unconstitutional, because they “encroach impermissibly upon private relationships.” According to Ginsburg, the American people had no right to define marriage; if three, or four, or ten people wanted to get ‘married,’ the state had to let them do so and had to officially recognize their ‘marriage.’
Ginsburg had argued that there is a constitutional right to prostitution.
Ginsburg had argued that the Constitution requires that the federal government must use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions.
Ginsburg had criticized the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts as sexist institutions that “perpetuate stereotyped sex roles.”
Ginsburg had recommended forcing Big Brothers of America to change its name and purpose in order to prevent “sex-role stereotypes.”
Ginsburg had taken such a strident view of gender equality that she had actually argued that it would be discrimination if the government gave aid to mothers after the first few weeks of lactation.
This is mainstream? Hardly...and yet the Senate in 1993 allowed an up or down vote in which Republicans crossed the aisle to confirm Ginsburg. But today's Senate is poisoned by a determined minority intent on ideological litmus tests for judicial nominees. Fortunately for the judiciary, the Senate is now at long last confirming judges. Let's hope it continues to do so.
-- chappy22, fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/
Hey it's better than your hard drive exploding.....which mine did....Thank God it's fixed....and we're still debating judges....haven't missed a thing.
5pm
Neil asked the President whether the focus on MJ has distracted him, he said that I don't monitor the viewing patterns of the American people, my job is to stay focused on the problems and solve them!
Amen Mr. President!
Storms???
Thanks.
Specter on the way...
Yeah I know and I enjoyed the jab. I have it stored in my UBI file and will use it myself. Thanks for sharing the information.
Your welcome!
They still bloviating?
Who has very poor re-elect numbers right now.....
But she does have the voter fraud on her side.
That is what RAT Senators do best!
And of course the democrats are all free to vote anyway they like. That's why twice now since the deal, democrats who weren't part of the deal have voted for cloture when they previously did not (in Brown's case, if you changed the 7 democrat dealmaker votes to what they voted LAST time on cloture, and added the three additional votes for cloture, you would have CLOTURE without the DEAL).
And Owens had 81 votes for cloture.
Oddly, none of the republicans who previously voted against cloture changed their votes when the deal made it meaningless which way they voted. I guess the republicans actually were voting their PRINCIPLES all along.
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