Posted on 11/06/2006 8:37:23 AM PST by ConservativeGadfly
I thought it took only a simple majority to change the senate voting rules...
Bump -- the SC is the main reason I'm a Republican. I wish Stevens well, but we do NOT need to sit this election out.
Week-end at Bernie's bump.
I think the point is that there are a few RINOs who would not support the Constitutional Option, thus eliminating it as a threat in a 52-48 or 51-49 Senate.
Indeed, the Democrats would filibuster, or suggest filibuster, in order to run out the clock on the Bush administration!
The problem has been that of those 55, at least 3 Republicans were on record as opposing the banning of judicial filibusters. Which brings us down to 52, and then several more were uncommitted based on the reasoning that in the future, Republicans might want to filibuster at a future time when Democrats again have a majority in the Senate. So it would have been a tight vote, and will be even tighter if they ever get around to deciding it.
Yes, but you had a handful of GOP senators who might not want the rule change like McCain and Hagel. Most thought a rule change would be tight, right at the 50 mark.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is also not well.
I have not waivered in my Republican vote, but alas, the beast rules in NY and I KNOW what it is like. I know how chuckie schumer wishes to continue roe v wade at all costs. Don't put any more beasts and chuckies into the Senate. You will regret it every day of your life. Vote Republican.
"a less credible but still noteworthy post last week at the liberal Democratic Underground"
I would sooner use stock tips mumbled by a homeless person on the subway between sips of a Sterno Cocktain than rely on a post on that moonbat site.
Republicans MUST hold the senate, and not just hold it, but hold it by two or three seats!!
Any so-called conservative who abstains from voting for in order to "teach someone a lesson" is a complete and utter moron. And I have less respect for them then someone who went out a voted Democrat. Only an idiot would try to affect the political process by abstaining from voting.
That is a nasty rumor.
She was just tying her tennis shoes.
One more time, with feeling!
BTTT!
No, rats had to drop the filibuster for all of Bush's nominees and Republicans agreed not to invoke the nuclear option. In other words, we agreed to immediately give the rats everything required of us while they were to be trusted to honor the deal for the rest of Dubya's term. And now at the first opportunity they're giving every indication that they plan to renege on the deal. Stupid, stupid, stupid. When will we learn?
**This week in Indiana, Montana, and Nevada, President Bush raised judges as a key reason to elect Republicans to the Senate. By all accounts, it has been and continues to be a favorite applause line among Republican crowds. Judicial confirmations were key to tight Senate races in 2002 and 2004.
Conservatives should not forget the issue this Election Day, when the victory of a generation may be at last within their grasp.**
Yes -- vote GOP!
It isn't the DU rumor that has the rumors flying, my friend. There are extremely credible sources in DC who have information that is sending a cold chill down our spines.
We have come so far and accomplished much in the past few years in the judicial nominations arena. To abandon that now, perhaps on the eve of the SCOTUS nomination that could tip the balance on the Court would be mind-boggling.
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