[Zack Nguyen]

Reuters needs to keep their bias out of this. This bears no resemblance to the Lott episode at all.

This will be the warmup for the Supreme Court nominations. Do Bush and the Senate Republicans have the guts to get tough to get their guy through?

[jra]

Maybe they can filibuster...who knows?

I'm just glad we're taking the fight to them.

[Puppage]

Pickering, whose appointment is strongly opposed by civil rights activists.

Just so these so-called civil rights activists know...Pickering once testified AGAINST THE KKK at great peril to himself,and his family. They endured death threats & the like.SO, now EXPLAIN to me how he can be racist??? Because YOU want him to be. Because it's the EASIEST way to cry foul?

Why not let our elected officals DO THEIR JOBS?

[PhiKapMom]

If the RATs decide to put all their eggs in one basket with the Pickering nomination and keep him from getting confirmed by getting 41 votes, it will come back to haunt them in 2004 IMHO!

Yesterday at the WH when the President reached out to the RATs once again about setting a new tone during the meeting where he signed the unemployment extension, it was duly noted that the only people on camera at the table were the President, Speaker Hastert, and Majority Leader Frist.

The RATs worst nightmare will come true if they attempt to block the Pickering nomination. All the facts will get out and the RATs on the floor of the Senate will look like the Obstructionist they truly are which won us seats in the last election. The RATs haven't seen anything yet IMHO!

[cubreporter]

So, there IS or HAS BEEN progress?

[BibChr]

...whose appointment is strongly opposed by civil rights activists

Wow! Did you know that, Kevin? Apparently ALL "civil rights activists" oppose this guy — every last mother's son of them! ALL of them!

...and if not, the opposition had better start grabbing cameras and microphones, and making itself heard. Doncha think?

Dan

[BibChr]

...whose appointment is strongly opposed by civil rights activists

Wow! Did you know that, Kevin? Apparently ALL "civil rights activists" oppose this guy — every last mother's son of them! ALL of them!

...and if not, the opposition had better start grabbing cameras and microphones, and making itself heard. Doncha think?

Dan
(#9 was supposed to be to you! Sorry!)

[nutmeg]

bump to read later

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

The public in general really don't care about civil rights issues because they feel they have gone too far.It is just a handful of troublemakers and the GOP needs to realize this.

[TC Rider]

W should put Pickering between Laura and Medgar Evers brother during the SOU speach. Point him out and give his credentials and endorsements.

Let Schumer fillibuster that.

[Molly Pitcher]

If the Dems think they can block it now, when they're the Minority, why didn't they let it get out of the J. Committee for a vote on the floor, when they were in the Majority???? Hmmmmmm??

[toenail]

Democrats like it when abortionists kill black babies; Pickering doesn't like it when abortionists kill black babies. That's all this fight is about.

[MeekOneGOP]

Those dirty 'RATS !...

To: MeeknMing

Democrats are a strange bunch especially their leaders. They complain about politics of personnel destruction when that is how they try to divide the country. They have little pride in America, it seems that the American people serve for their pleasure only. If you don't cotton to the democratic line, you aren't American. They used the surplus for other countries and other people when there was much to do here at home. They take our best technologies and sell them to nations that will use the knowledge against us. They lack an enormous amount of integrity and don't seem to care as they flaunt sleazy ethics and morality in our faces.

We didn't have a government for the people under the Clinton administration, what we had was a Democrats Only need apply type of government and now they are attempting to replace a People's Government with their tired old arguments about an education system they didn't fix in 8 years, a health care program they messed up and couldn't fix in 8 years, a social security system they say needs fixing and did nothing about it in 8 years when in reality that system is fine as long as lawmakers don't spend the money that social security is meant for; they spent 8 years hiring federal workers with no qualifications as long as it meant a democratic vote leaving behind a dumbed down, bloated army of sleazy federal laborers who have plundered their departments of millions in dollars and equipment.

Democrats seem to have no respect, no real base from which true justice can spring, only justice that bends for them. They have no enthusiasm for country/nation, no pride, just the spoils from a rich nation for the DNC. They continue to huddle with shady and corrupt people both here in America and abroad for reasons that only benefit them. They are elitists and exclude the real Americans as they race for the Marxist Utopia they have dreamed about...where individual successes are discouraged in favor of a commune like population. They have learned nothing from failed socialism or failed communism; they still want to live like kings all the while painting a glowing picture of togetherness for the masses who work for them. It is called Slavery, servitude to a few at the top, domination over the people through higher taxes and rules and regulations. Democrats want a Unionized nation/world of bondage and they can surely have it by dividing the country with the deceptive lies they and the press propagandize with daily.

Stand tall Americans and stand firmly for the principals of our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, both of which are like the fabled Vampires silver cross or spike to the leading democrats, they don't want you to have either; it is these people who would return this country to the quagmire of corruption of the Clinton/Gore/Reno years.

12 posted on 7/30/02 8:42 AM Central by yoe

I'm a GOOD 'RAT !

[MeekOneGOP]

[pabianice]

I hope the public gets a gut-full of the Dems shutting-down the Senate as we prepare to go to war.

[Luis Gonzalez]

They want to start a dialogue on racism?

I say we start with this: "The Congressional Black Caucus".

Let's have the dialogue on national dialogue on this, let's ask black people in America how much better they are after decades of loyalty to the DNC.

[TLBSHOW]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110002878

A special election held earlier this week revealed that some Democrats, at least, are still willing to wave the Confederate flag in hopes of winning elections. The race was in a state House a district in Walker County, an almost entirely white area bordering Tennessee. Republican Jay Neal had beaten incumbent Democrat Mike Snow by 195 votes, but a judge invalidated the November election because some voters had been incorrectly assigned to other voting districts.

This race couldn't have cost the Democrats the majority, but it could cost them control of the Georgia House of Representatives. A maverick Democrat is running against his party to be speaker of the House, and he has Republican support. That election is next week and the race is expected to be very close. The winner of the Snow vs. Neal race could tip the scales.

Clearly worried about the loss of Mr. Snow's seat, Democrats starting dotting lawns with signs like the one shown nearby, emphasizing Mr. Snow's frequent refusals to support Gov. Barnes' agenda, including changing the state flag. Local reporters say the signs may have played a role in shoring up Mr. Snow's support. He defeated Mr. Neal on Tuesday by 64 votes out of 7,900 cast.

"Who is exploiting the Confederate flag and racial symbolism to win races now?" asks Mr. Reed. The state Democratic Party couldn't be reached for comment late yesterday, but in a statement last November the party attacked Mr. Reed for "continuing the politics of division and hate as he plans to implement his minority voter intimidation plan."

In a statewide race, of course, Democrats need black votes, so Snow-style demagoguery is out of the question. Georgians may have reason to hope that the 2004 Senate candidates will wage a forward-looking campaign rather than refight the Civil War.

[Brian Allen]

<< The "congressional black caucus," which helped topple Lott .... >>

Rubbish. Republicans -- and his own bloody stupidity -- saw Lott off. We don't tolerate "DemocRAT" behavior in our ranks!

<< .... took aim at Pickering as well as many of these other conservative nominees .... >>

Who cares what that gang of racist bigots takes aim at? [Tawana Sharpton-Rodham for all we care] The United States Senate [Unless being run by America's first dictator, Yasser Daschle] Advises on and Consents to the President's judicial nominations.

[MEGoody]

Too bad the Republicans can't 'tack' something on to a nomination that would be political suicide for the Dems to vote down. It would be great to beat them at their own game.

[xzins]

The Congressional Black Caucus, which helped topple Lott

Ridiculous.

Lott was changed because the Republicans decided it would be that way.....from the beginning of the episode all the way to the end.