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President renominates Charles Pickering
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| Dog
Posted on 01/07/2003 3:28:53 PM PST by Dog
Charles Pickering is one of 30 names submitted this afternoon by President Bush for nomination to the Federal bench...
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: abortion; bush; courts; federalbench; federaljudiciary; frist; hardballpolitics; newjersey; nj; pickering; president; scotus; senate; supremecourt
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To: Cicero
but it's usually bad politics to cave in to the opposition like that.Conservatives simply, patiently waited for the inevitable and then used the resulting political fuss as cover to get rid of this ineffectual King of The Pork Barrel.
Good riddance under any senerio.
To: VRWC For Truth
Thanks anyways but as I say hold their feet to the fire!
502
posted on
01/07/2003 9:43:53 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
(Keeping McCain and the Republicans Feet to the Fire.......)
To: Howlin; Miss Marple
Thanks for the laughs. Haven't seen this much hypocrisy, weaseling, and obfuscation, ala TLB & cyn, since the Keyester Kops starting pulling the same BS.
To: TLBSHOW
Whatever you say Ratty rat. Bwahahahaha!
To: justshe
Try
here. The search I did was something like - "judicial nomination" hold delay home state senator - . Many things popped up, and this was the first that seemed somewhat but not totally useful.
505
posted on
01/07/2003 9:47:14 PM PST
by
Torie
To: TLBSHOW
"Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric logic, that, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist."
To: Dog
This is not a total shock considering that the Republicans owe their victories in the midterm elections on large to the conservative wing of the party. One of the reasons they came out to vote was the Senate holding up the nominations of conservative judges and they wanted the Republicans to control the Senate. And the June 2002, decision to remove the word GOD from the Pledge of Allegiance was another incentive for them to go out and vote for Republican candidates.
Holding back Pickering, Owens, and the others would have angered the people that got Bush his Senate. No need for another Perot to show up in 2004 to divide the Republican vote.
And as Theodore R. said, the media expected Bush to drop his most "controversial" judges after the Trent Lott "controversy." This is very much a pleasant surprise and with Frist as Majority Leader, criticizing these Bush's picks have become ever more difficult.
To: Torie
Hmmmmm......further readings indicate that the same 'hold' that is used with judicial nominees can also be used on bills...although it would appear that a 'hold' on a bill indicates an intent to filibuster.
508
posted on
01/07/2003 9:58:56 PM PST
by
justshe
(GWB.....Frist....Hastert: The Perfect Trifecta)
To: justshe
Interestingly in the good old days it was far worse. In fact at one time, the Senate even tended to dictate the president's cabinet, and certainly court appointees. I read that in Caro's book on the LBJ senate years. In fact, the Senate was the graveyard for most significant presidential domestic initiatives, except during the FDR depression window from 1933 until the court packing episode, up until really the LBJ landslide. Teddy Roosevelt did most of what he was famous for by executive order of fiat. Yep, it suprised me too.
509
posted on
01/07/2003 10:03:17 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Dog
Go Dubya Go!
Liberty
To: Dog
Dubya's really on a roll today!
To: Fred Mertz
Are you being a yenta?
To: Grampa Dave
Music to my ears! But...I'll have to give the Senators up for re-election in 04 another look...can't quite come up this a +9 at the moment but with Dubya at the helm wouldn't surprise me!
To: Deb
Give it a friggin' rest. He's a whole lot smarter than you. You seem as though you are in a hurry to get to the point
514
posted on
01/07/2003 10:12:59 PM PST
by
woofie
To: Liberty Valance
Oh, would it have been fun to be in room when Old Leaky and Chuckie learned that the were not dealing with Clinton any more. Boys and Girls, we have a real man that knows right from wrong as POTUS.
To: RobFromGa
Actually old worn out agendas have no more value than old worn out mantras of the left wing and old worn out left wingers.
The storage cost is minimal when compared to what these agendas have and could cost America. So let hope that GW keeps crating their old worn out agendas and then stores them in DC federal office space no longer needed since the agendas are gone.
To: Dog
517
posted on
01/07/2003 10:40:41 PM PST
by
unspun
(GWB: A diamond will cut glass every time.)
To: VRWC For Truth
At least I am not a mind numbed robot! That follows blind people around!
Bwahahahaha!
lol
518
posted on
01/07/2003 10:59:58 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
(vote mccain out please.......)
To: KQQL
Filaduster KQQL!! OOPS, I mean COOL!!
To: crystalk
Is there some small chance we have finally got a Republican with some integrity in the White House? That's why we voted for him!!
their black little hearts and their small little minds, and their hate.
And their LIES - many many LIES!
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