For more, see: Fair Game on Confirmation Questions - http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/001351.php
and Schumer's Vendetta - http://www.jonathanbwilson.com/2005.07.01_arch.html#1121965220593
Schumer gives all the appearances of being a petty, vindictive little man. Thanks, New Yorkers, for electing this putz.
As Orrin Hatch mentioned, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a radically liberal judge, yet the Republicans did not do to her what the Democrats did to Bork. Bill Clinton had the right to pick her, like it or not. The senate's duty is to determine if the person is CAPABLE of doing the job, not whether the nominee fits their personal political philosophy.
Bork should have sailed through the confirmation proess. Roberts should, too. But kennedy and the other libs have simply decided "We'll vote against people based on whether they appeal to our political philosophy, because we feel like it."
Schumer has a vendetta against anyone who is really Catholic.
God, this guy is an idiot. I have come to realize, through the scrutiny of FR, that some of our US Senators are inept and probably couldn't hold jobs in the private sector.
I don't know who is worse though, Schumer or Durbin. They tell me that just because you're an elected Senator, it doesn't indicate that you're competent or smart. In fact, actually what have these two done in their years in public office other than to be obstructionists and partisan hacks?
Is there anyting more nauseating than hearing these Dem Senators - Schumer, Kennedy, Biden, Dodd, et al - pontificating on the Constitution and the judiciary, speaking down to us as if they are Moses returning from Mt Sinai? Hell, they threw the Constitution away years ago! Bunch of hypocritical lying bloviating gas bags, without a shred of real honor or dignity among them. But I understate!
Do what most of NY does each week when Chuckie does his weekly blabber in front of the cameras press conference -- IGNORE HIM!!!
The only true way out of abortion hell is to receive the Lord's forgiveness, and allow Him to remove the guilt and stain of abortion from her soul.
Fortas became the first sitting associate justice, nominated for chief justice, to testify at his own confirmation hearing. Those hearings reinforced what some senators already knew about the nominee. As a sitting justice, he regularly attended White House staff meetings; he briefed the president on secret Court deliberations; and, on behalf of the president, he pressured senators who opposed the war in Vietnam. When the Judiciary Committee revealed that Fortas received a privately funded stipend, equivalent to 40 percent of his Court salary, to teach an American University summer course, Dirksen and others withdrew their support. Although the committee recommended confirmation, floor consideration sparked the first filibuster in Senate history on a Supreme Court nomination.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Filibuster_Derails_Supreme_Court_Appointment.htm
If Roberts meets this level of dishonesty, I won't object to a filibuster.
Go Chuckie! Ask your stupid questions and show the voters how petty and vindictive the Democratic party is.
You da man!