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Leahy’s Surprise Attack
National Review Online ^
| 10/9/02
| Byron York
Posted on 10/09/2002 7:25:37 AM PDT by FreedomWarrior
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To: FreedomWarrior
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On October 2, the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to Leahy repeating earlier charges that Shedd's record shows "a pattern of insensitivity toward the issues that most affect minorities."Of course there aren't any specifics about just what constitutes "insensitivity," only the sound of liberals whining.
I've just re-read my copy of the Constitution and I have failed again to find anything in there about judges being required to be "sensitive."
To: ZULU
Of course, every time Leahy is in the news, the question of WHY Leahy would be one of two senators singled out to get the most highly processed Anthrax from supposedly "Islamic Terrorists" should be asked.
Not that it ever is.
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posted on
10/09/2002 8:20:54 AM PDT
by
John H K
To: FreedomWarrior
Kwesi Mfume wrote Leahy a letter saying that "Judge Shedd's membership to [sic] the Fourth Circuit would further radicalize a court that has practiced judicial activism in a manner that hurts racial and ethnic minorities and disenfranchised Americans And how would that be? By applying the law even handedly without bowing to special interests?
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posted on
10/09/2002 8:29:49 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: FreedomWarrior
Leahy can do this, of course, because the media will tolerate lies and corruption. News of this is appearing on National Review and a few other conservative sources. But the great unwashed public doesn't even know that there is a holdup on appointing judges, because the major media have never told them about it. At most, a few people have heard that there is some sort of partisan deadlock, probably because Bush is trying to appoint racist judges.
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posted on
10/09/2002 8:59:27 AM PDT
by
Cicero
To: FreedomWarrior
I am sick and tired of trying to work with these anti-American, obstructionist and petty sneaks. I wish President Bush would make a slew of recess appointments and be done with it.
My God...we need to take back the Senate.
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posted on
10/09/2002 9:16:19 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
To: Cicero
Leahy can do this, of course, because the media will tolerate lies and corruption. Yes, the media underreports this kind of stuff. But the real solution has to come from other Senators. Your word has to mean something in the Senate (not to us, which would be nice) but to the other Senators.
Leahy and his constituents will pay for this when no one supports him on the minor things. Jim Jeffords comes to mind as an example.
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posted on
10/09/2002 9:20:24 AM PDT
by
Drango
To: FreedomWarrior
bttt
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posted on
10/09/2002 9:47:43 AM PDT
by
kayak
To: Wphile
TAKE BACK THE SENATE!!! bump
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posted on
10/09/2002 9:54:35 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: Cicero
Bush and team are calculating that he can regain the Senate, and that the near-term obstruction of his nominees helps enrage the GOP base. If we do not succeed in recapturing the Senate, then I suspect you'll be hearing a lot more about the treatment of the Bush judicial nominees. It's called the bully pulpit that the president occupies.
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posted on
10/09/2002 10:18:57 AM PDT
by
mwl1
To: Bigg Red
The Commies are have the dirty tricks book in full distribution to the leftist politicians and theri backers.
Now they have figured out that by holding up law and order justices, they can continue their attck on democracy, and the very fiber of a once great nation.
We must get out and vote them out in greater numbers than ever before. We must campaign in our own areas to get the voters to the polls to knock the leftists out!
Ops4 God Bless America!!!
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posted on
10/09/2002 10:22:16 AM PDT
by
OPS4
To: FreedomWarrior
Can we kick Vermont out of the union, or at least remove their right to vote?
To: FreedomWarrior
Leahy is about to get SPANKED by the U.S. Senate for LYING. What a crumb bag Leahy is.
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posted on
10/09/2002 10:35:56 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Drango
bump
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posted on
10/09/2002 10:53:12 AM PDT
by
lepton
To: mwl1
It's called the bully pulpit that the president occupies.Well, I don't believe he'll actually use the office as a bully pulpit until the day after he wins his second term and not until then.Heck,how can he? Because I tired of the Bias of All TV News,(I really shouldn't have to absorb Bias when my day is over ) I just read online each day.
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posted on
10/09/2002 11:02:33 AM PDT
by
Pagey
To: PetroniDE
Hear, hear! The gloves are off. Now it's a street fight. I say if we don't take back the Senate, GWB should recess appoint the whole conservative dream team and then let the whining babies protest to no avail.
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posted on
10/09/2002 11:10:10 AM PDT
by
Sender
To: FreedomWarrior
If the Republicans take back the Senate this year, Lehay may as well dig a hole and pull it in on himself. He won't get the time of day from any member of the majority after this BS. He just burned his last bridge.
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posted on
10/09/2002 11:16:01 AM PDT
by
Ditto
To: Ditto
We need to get the treatment of Shedd out to everyone we can, because they'll never hear about it via the news media.
Pickering. Owen. Estrada. Shedd. A dozens of others in limbo.
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posted on
10/09/2002 11:23:39 AM PDT
by
mwl1
To: FreedomWarrior
DemonRATs: The horde of power mad barbarians!
To: OPS4
We must campaign in our own areas to get the voters to the polls to knock the leftists out!
You are so right!
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posted on
10/09/2002 12:55:06 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: FreedomWarrior
Bump
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posted on
10/09/2002 4:00:13 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
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