Live Thread: Estrada Confirmation Filibuster

http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | February 12, 2003

[Howlin]

As requested, a thread to follow the filibuster.

[Mo1]

I have no idea

I'm watching on C-Span 2

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

[Howlin]

It should be.

[mware]

I was at another web site and they have a photo of Estrata with the words,

FREE ESTRATA

Wish I knew how to post photos.

[Chad Fairbanks]

What a day for the DC area to be out of Duct Tape...

[Miss Marple]

Actually, I am being quie cautious by drinking the merlot.

I am saving the gin for terrorist attacks.

[woodyinscc]

IMO .. Hillary knows

Bet your bottom dollar she knows!!
And on that premise, this makes this debate all the more senseless. They are using a strategy with Hillary's(and Bills)fingerprints all over it! It is a play for the base of their party, and their interest groups(money)Let's hope it jumps up and bites them in the a--!

[Howlin]

Gimme the link!

[swheats]

That would be something my husband would do.

I tell him constantly, I'm going to put him on Candid Camera. There are people literally all over the world, in connection with his job, that would want to see him get his.

[justshe]

No....I missed that! ROFL!

[OXENinFLA]

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[swheats]

A little gin and juice for the emergency preparedness kit.

[Mo1]

You have Freepmail

[Darlin']

"The White House is hanging tough! God bless America! "

The dems still haven't learned that you do NOT want to play hardball with this White House.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Amen. (^;

Sen. Sessions:

 

"He refused to allow himslf to be pressured into answering questions that he might have to consider on the bench. And that's what he SHOULD do."

 

Thank you, Judge.

 

"Judges should not opine on matters that (can) come before them.."

 

"He answered the questions and consistently over and over and over again."

 

"How OUGHT we to handle matters of confirmation?" "In the past there was a presumption given to the President's nominees." "Generally they have been confirmed."

 

"My concern in the matter of Miguel Estrada....a confirmation would require NOT a majority, but a SUPER majority."

 

"The reason many of us on this side are deeply concerned by what is happening here is because we are changing the ground rules in an extraordinary way."

 

"They are not asserting that this young, outstanding hispanic lawyer (needs) 60 votes, not 51."

 

"That was NOT done when President Clinton was President. There was NOT a blocking of any nominee in committee."

[swheats]

It depends on the crisis. LOL

[hole_n_one]

LOL!

[mware]

http://www.figureconcord.com/ublog/

There is a photo of him if you scroll down.

[Conservababe]

... has anyone else here ever made a shrink start to sweat, shake, and mutter "oh my god... oh my god" under their breath as they hit the panic button? If not, you should try it. Good fun. ;0)

Must have been those armadillos in your trousers.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

After working on the CFR bill for weeks or months, Edwards waits until the eve of the Senate vote to start reading the Constitution - unsure about whether the bill breaks the law. He never did figure that out. (^:

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Hillary called the ABA the "lunatic fringe" tonight - hah.