[tet68]

What is up with this? The Repubs had better start playing hard ball or they will find themselves behind the eight ball. (mixing my metaphores carefully.) Sorry for any typos, hand inscribed from the paper.

[Texas_Jarhead]

in effect they asked that the 'record' lie for them... nothing new for the dimocRATs... none of those ten have any honor or integrity... they dishonor the Senate...

[summer]

Here's the headline on this from a Dem site:

Get THIS! Democrats Let Right-Wing Judge Move Forward, THEN Ask to Be Recorded as Voting NO. What Kind of Cowardly, Despicable, Disgusting Garbage is That? Holy Cripe! Where's The Spine!? 11/15

[SamAdams76]

I get the distinct impression that these socialist/democrats do not have a favourable opinion of President Bush's judge nominees.

[Libloather]

Last ditch effort to screw things up...

[Dog Gone]

They agreed to let the Shedd nomination pass as a final tribute to Strom Thurman, knowing full well that it would pass next year anyhow.

So they passed it by voice vote. However, none of them wanted to be on the record of having approved it, so they did this stupid little exercise.

It means nothing. The voice vote was the official committe vote.

[agincourt1415]

The Democrats are arranging their own demise, LOL. Everything they do now is petty and transparently obnoxious. They're extremely entertaining for us FREEPERS.

[Senator Pardek]

That's pretty much the extent of the power the lame duck Senate Majority wields ("hey, look at us! Nyah nyah!") - I love it.

[PianoMan]

Perhaps Trent Lott as a conciliatory gesture to the Dems will kill the nominee. That would show us all he's back in the saddle.

[jpl]

The Democrats know that they are in deep trouble. It looks to me based on the last few days that they've decided to adopt the Clinton "triangulation" strategy. They're going to try to be on both sides of the issues, particularly the ones where they are vulnerable because their actual position is unpopular.

[makoman]

I am so thankful that the toilet flushed on these turds! Now they can focus on their total lack of an agenda!

[VRW Conspirator]

Senators approve of nominee, yet get on record as having said "no". The Democrat party is fully Clinonized. Dirty opportunists. This should be spead all over the media for the rank-and-file Democrats to see and then dispair.

[timestax]

They are SICK !!

[Redcloak]

This isn't something to get mad about. You should be laughing yourself silly. The Dems are now so rattled that they can't even muster the courage to give a straight vote. They haven't the guts to stand up to either the President or their own party. They've been reduced to a pack of cowering weasels.

[k2blader]

Silly me, I didn't know such a maneuver was legal...

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

So, basically, the nomination was sent to the full Senate by a vote of 9 in favor vs. 10 opposed. Only the dems could come up with math like that.

[MonroeDNA]

Good thing that Trent Lott is the (once again) majority Leader. He will not put up with this nonsense.

And monkeys might fly out of my butt.

[edsheppa]

So why didn't the Rs ask to have it recorded that each individual D was present and did not object to the nominee? It sounds like you can anything at all recorded, true or false.

[tonyinv]

Is there a link?

[Trajan88]

The Democrats are a bunch of sissies with skinned knees.

Does anyone know what happened to the federal judge nominee from S. Carolina that Lehay promised Strom Thurman would be put up for a vote about a month ago only to have Lehay remove the nominee from the list at the last minute (sorry I don't have the nominee's name)?

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88; TAMU, beat the hell outta MO!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Do the democrats have ANY platform - ANYTHING they give a da*m about except abortion?

These same democrat senators previously put a special clause in the new Banking Law that forbids somebody who was arrested for protesting outside an abortion clinic from going bankrupt to avoid fines.......

So much for free speech.

For equal justice.

For protection of life....