Posted on 01/29/2006 2:27:33 PM PST by Pukin Dog
I’ve spent no time on Free Republic today, because I’ve been monitoring my favorite nut-job sites to see whether or not they were actually going to go ahead with their incredibly stupid plans to attempt a filibuster against the Senate Confirmation of Judge Alito.
I’m telling you folks, if you ever wanted to see Liberal madness in action, just pop on over to one of these Democrat web sites. But I warn you, please do so before eating if you don’t want to risk tossing your cookies.
What you will join me in witnessing, is the inward implosion of the Left, brought to you by the Flipper-in-Chief, John Kerry. Never has one man’s ego done so much for his enemies, as what John Kerry does for us this week. Thanks to Kerry, every one if his potential fellow contenders for the Presidential nomination in 2008 are being forced to follow him over the same cliff and support this doomed effort, just to maintain their standing with the wacko-left.
What this tells me, is that Congressional Democrats are so bereft of ideas, while at the same time so hard-up for campaign dollars, that they can be led around by the nose by the likes of those who fill the pages at Daily Kos and other wacko-left hangouts. This weekend, the wacko left said “JUMP”, and Senate Democrats said “How High, baby?”
The calls (threats) have gone out wide and far, first it was Di-Fi, who claimed she would not support a filibuster. But when the wacko’s got her fax number and reminded her that her special brand of “well formed arguments” would no longer be funded if she did not flip. She flipped so hard, I hear she is still dizzy from the G forces.
After now, serious discussion with ‘Old Crusty’, it appears that Senator Clinton saw the light, and will also be joining the filibuster fray. This has now opened the gates for the rest of the lemmings, ready to fly over that cliff to the rocks below. Feingold, Biden, and Obama too. All ready to make that leap into Senatorial oblivion, just so the rabid left wont say mean things about them, or worse yet, through their support (dollars) to Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, or the formally-sane Albert Gore.
Imagine the beating these brave Senators would receive from The Screamer or the Perfumed Prince during the primary season about their failure to fight hard enough against Alito. Oh, the rapture! After Alito is confirmed to the bench, there will be nothing left but the sound and fury against Senators who failed, and even more anger against Senators who stood back and let Alito gain the bench.
And now, sensing this massive calamity that the wacko-left has forced upon the Democrats, the DLC (you know, that group that managed to get the only Democrat President elected in the last 25 years) has come out against the filibuster. The only group of Democrats that understands that crazy people don’t win elections no matter how much support they get, has decided that this filibuster will only hurt the Democrats and their chances in November.
Here is a snipped of their article:
But we stress this last point: in the Senate debate on this confirmation, Democrats should focus on Alito's judicial philosophy, and discard the personal attacks that figure so prominently in some of the interest-group campaigning against his confirmation. Such attacks at best distract from the principled case against Alito; at worst, they undermine it.
For the same reason and others, we do not think Senate Democrats should try to filibuster this confirmation. A filibuster is certain to fail; indeed, the Senate is certain to respond to a filibuster by outlawing them permanently in judicial confirmations. Using this weapon now would stake Democrats to the implausible argument that Alito's inevitable confirmation is the most egregious act of the Bush administration and the Republican Senate, going into a critical midterm election.
Gee, it would seem that some Democrats want to take a ‘principled stand, win or lose. You can only imagine the grief they are receiving today from the wacko-left factions who have not won an important election on their own, (that is by campaigning as Liberals) since………………Sorry, I’m not old enough to remember! I thought of the Liberal McGovern, who campaigned as a liberal, he got smashed. So Jimmuh Carter ran as a southern moderate, and apparently had enough discipline to hold that lie until gaining the White House, whereupon Roselyn must have found the happy pills and took them herself, leaving Jimmuh nothing on which to appear decisive accept the Olympics.
It appears that the Democrats have not learned their lesson, which is why I am still predicting that we will pick up seats in both the House and Senate. John Kerry is indeed the gift that keeps on giving. Here’s hoping that he, Gore, Dean and maybe Chuck Hagel, (who is rumored to be about to vote against Alito for the attention it will get him) can all get together for a whistle-stop tour through the United States, just like those Circus freak shows of old.
So, if you are a Broncos fan, steel…. Oops I mean STILL feeling down over last week, cheer up and visit a few Democrat sites today, and watch as the war goes down. They are tearing each other apart! They are so angry with each other, they haven’t even noticed yet how Howard Dean blew up Harry Reid today on Fox.
Abramoff THIS, you idiot liberals!
Oh how I love the smell of burning Liberals in the morning. If you agree, be tuned in for the big explosion tomorrow, when Alito ruins their whole day. Even the most profound of idiots might decide to take stock, and try to figure out why someone that they think is so dumb, so incompetent as our President, can manage to kick their liberal asses up and down the block any time he wants too.
Oh, I know, it’s because he is spying on them! Right?
You're off.
I looked back at my posts to you; they were all quite calm.
Your strident tone is very telling.
Oh dear, yet another PD UnPrediction?
Say it isn't so?
What?
Hey Howlin' are they scheduled for the vote tomorrow, or is it going to be Tuesday???
Yes, we do. It will not be necessary because seven Democrats have promised not to filibuster and three others have already announced that they will vote for Alito, and so would be improbable candidates to vote against closure. That leaves only 35 votes (counting Jeffords) to support a filibuster, which is 6 shy of what is needed.
Therefore, there is no real downside for those 34 (forgetting Jeffords) Democrats to support a filibuster and look good for the benefit of the bitter, socialist, lunatic fringe (the Democrat "base"). The filibuster will fail and normal America will generally ignore the attempt - - unless the GOP can think up some clever way to make it look as pathetic (and anti-Italian, anti-Catholic) as it is.
I am not sure; I heard cloture vote on Monday and real vote on Tuesday, but then I heard they may not vote until Tuesday?
In Massachusetts, I think they call that a resume enhancer. At least it works for Teddy Kennedy, Barnie Frank, Gerry Studds...
One way or another, he will be at the SOTU address either in the front row or sitting with Laura in the gallery.
The Dems are going to look like fools if they don't vote on Tuesday. This is the one address that many of the American people follow. The President can hammer them bigtime at the address.
Just commenting on the fact that PD likes to make these predictions, most of them based on "inside" information, yet rarely do they come to be as he predicts.
Or he'll be sitting up next to Laura and Bush can point to him as yet another example of Democratic bungling and delaying the government.
Works for me.
Oh, I didn't know it was a "serial" kind of thing.
Hope he has been measured for his new robe.
We need a Kerry/Sheehan ticket in '08! : )
Oh, serial is a good term for it.
He knows I know who he really is, so he won't be talking to me.
To prove a political point to boot!
Yes, cloture Monday and the confirmation vote on Tuesday.
That's the schedule Frist announced originally.
I see no reason the votes won't go as planned, although I am pretty sure there will be frivolous rat attempts to disrupt and obstruct and make the process really ugly. Look for some arcane parliamentary manuevers from that bloated, drunken murderer Ted Kennedy, as well.
Regards,
LH
There are two scenarios "open" at the moment. Three if you count the possibility of a cloture vote failure (i.e., successful filibuster). Since the nose count shows no way for a successful filibuster, there are really just the following two possibilities:
1. Cloture vote on Moday at 4:30 PM, followed by a vote on the nomination at 11:00 AM Tuesday.
2. Reid and Frist agree to "vitiate" the cloture vote - which means to pretend as though it passed without bothering to hold the cloture vote. This is actually quite common. In that case we'll hear a unanimous consent agree ment to that effect, with the vote on the nomination still to be at 11:00 AM Tuesday.
Caveat: Since the Senate is free to change its mind all over the place, there may be a vote on the nomination earlier than 11:00 AM Tuesday. But I doubt it for no reason other than predictability of scheduling.
I think you're right about the dirty tricks, but did hear they expect him to be sworn in by noon on Tuesday.
But I did hear something about postponing the vote until Tuesday. I am probably wrong about that though.
Regardless of what these "Davis filibuster freaks" think, the rest of the Democratic Party had to know that if they went that way, it would be the last filibuster they ever pulled.
scnario #2 would save face for the dem's. They can claim the evil republicans still have them on the plantation.
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