Frist sees GOP capturing Senate

The Washington Times ^ | 9/8/2002 | Donald Lambro

[dodger]

[With a GOP House & Senate] What will be accomplished in the next 2 years? Any predictions?

Okay, here's one - LOTS of Constitutionalist Judges.

Here's another - Capital Gains or other major tax cuts.

Here's a third - GOP Landslide in 2004.

[Dane]

Jeane Carnahan in Missouri where Ashcroft allowed a dead man to unseat him without challenging the unconstitutional result. Talent is running seven points ahead in the latest poll...

Sheesh, you couldn't let the "dead man running" slam go could yah.

For the record for all the lurkers on FR.

Missouri Governor James Carnahan and Senator John Ashcroft were in a bitter battle over the Seante seat in Missouri. Gov. Carnahan died in a plane accident three weeks before the election. John Ashcroft in defernce to the Carnahan family decided to pull all his political ads. Jean Carnahan after the funeral jumped at the chance to say she would take her husbands seat if elected in 2000.

After election day and many questions about the polls in St. Louis being held open after the official closing, Mrs. Carnahan, took her seat as a Senator of the state of Missouri and John Ashcroft's name was put in nomination to be the Attorney Genreral of the United States, by President-Elect George W. Bush.

In the confrimation hearings, Senator Jean Caranhan, opened the hearings by not praising or disparging John Ashcroft, but when the final vote for confirmation was tallied, Sen. Carnahan voted against John Ashcroft.

That is the rest of the story.

[rightwing2]

What the hell are you talking about? Care to explain why you and your traitor RINOs friends like John McCain and fellow RATS like Daschle and Gephardt partied so hard on the day that Bush betrayed the entire Republican Party including scores of his GOP supporters in Congress to near-certain electoral defeat. The sad truth is that Bush betrayed every Republican in the country when he willingly signed the Democrap Congressional Majority Insurance Bill which will reduce the Republican party to permanent congressional minority status in 2004 because he has been too weak kneed and Democrap appeasing to veto one-single liberal Democrap piece of unconstitutional legislation. Our principled Speaker Deniis Hastert had it right when he said that enactment of the Bush signed Democrap campaign finance reform bill "would be Armageddon for us (the House majority)." Clinton vetoed about a hundred Republican bills, but Bush has so far lacked the spine to veto even one single liberal Democrap bill!!! So much for him being in any way as conservative as Ronald Reagan...

That one betrayal alone may cost him my vote come in 2004. You and your fellow RINOs are the only ones who gain from the signing of Bush's CFR bill because then your preferred Jeffords RINO traitors in Congress can switch parties and get plum committee chairmanships. That is why you have tried so hard to obscure the truth about Bush's CFR debacle and the imminent untimely demise of my beloved Republican Party.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Living in the Coastal Bend

Where abouts is that? I am in Florida, but I have lived in Austin and Dallas, around the time Kirk was getting elected Mayor. Basicly he is a liberal Democrat like your typical black caucus member, but not a bomb-thrower like McKinney and a few others and the Jacksons and Sharptons.

[marajade]

And it looks like what comes around goes around too...

Ashcroft came out looking the better person and obviously its helping Talent...

[marajade]

I never had much respect for single issue voters...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

What the hell are you talking about? Care to explain why you and your traitor RINOs friends like John McCain and fellow RATS like Daschle and Gephardt partied so hard on the day that Bush betrayed the entire Republican Party including scores of his GOP supporters in Congress to near-certain electoral defeat.

The reason they were partying is because they had set it up in their own minds as a victory for its own sake. They celebrated because they won, because by the time it passed they realized that Bush had totally suckered them.

This law, in the extremely unlikely event that it is allowed to stay on the books, will harm the First Amendment rights of the citizens, but will enable Republicans, RINOs and others, to beat the living daylights out of the Dems.

[AlGone2001]

What will be accomplished in the next 2 years? Any predictions?

Bottom line: Conservative federal judges will be appointed.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

You vastly overrate the significance of CFR, even if it surivives SCOTUS in toto, which is doubtful. JMO.

Afgreed. the dims would never have passed it if there were no loopholes for them to exploit.

[Bigun]

You would feel quilty not paying your fair share, you rich old Republican you, with that hideously regressive sales tax scheme of yours. Admit it!

Don't mind paying my fair share at all but I certainly DO NOT like being the subject of BLATANT GOVERNMENT DISCRIMINATION I will admit THAT!!

NOTHING regressive about it and it’s no scheme! It' a real live bill currently residing in the house ways and means committee which, when enacted, will free our nation from this hideous, communist inspired monster called the INCOME TAX we all currently labor under FOREVER!

Perhaps you would care to READ it! Fair Tax Act of 2001

[bird humming]

Thx for your info, LCS! Kirk's name hasn't been discussed until a couple of months ago. But neither has Cornyn's. Coastal Bend = Corpus & environs.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Jeane Carnahan in Missouri where Ashcroft allowed a dead man to unseat him without challenging the unconstitutional result.

Yes. This was absolutely outrageous. And the gutless 'pubs just let it go. Forget the constitution, they said. After all, we have to be considerate of the candidate's death and of the feeings for his spouse. What a bunch of BS! I was astonished by this event, to simply AWARD the office of Senator to someone like this.

[Political Junkie Too]

And the gutless 'pubs just let it go.

They could have fought the takeover by Democrats after Jeffords jumped, too.

I recall reading that if there weren't a true majority, then the Senate organizing rules revert back to the prior Senate where the Republicans had the majority. Jeffords went Independent, not Democrat. Even though he said he'd vote with Democrats for organizing, the Democrats only had a plurality, not a majority -- 50-49-1. So, if Republicans wanted to play the same hardball that Democrats play, they would have taken advantage of every trick in the book before handing over the Senate.

Instead, what they got was a new 60-vote super-major rule for floor votes, and ideology tests in committee votes. I hope they learned their lesson once and for all.

-PJ

[tabsternager]

Sounds like a great start to me! That's what I'm praying for.

[Bigun]

BTW!

Thanks for providing the opening! ;>)

[oldtimer]

McCain might have a serious problem with his own re-election if he tries a jumping jim trick.

He is one champion rino, but it aint going to happen in Zonia that he gets away with it.

[marajade]

"McCain might have a serious problem with his own re-election ..."

You haven't heard? McCain has already stated he isn't running for reelection in 2004 for the Senate...

Personally, I'd like to see him run for the Presidency as an independent...

[Bigun]

Personally, I'd like to see him run for the Presidency as an independent...

What the H*LL are you smokin????