[Howlin]

Links to CSPAN

[Howlin]

Here we go again!

[JohnHuang2]

Morning, Howlin ;^)

[JohnHuang2]

hehe, I like the 'Free Miguel' pic!

[The Wizard]

bttt

[Bahbah]

Thanks, Howlin. I must say it is difficult to get any work done with so much going on.

[mhking]

G'morning, Howlin...

Great 'Free Miguel' graphic at the top!

[nina0113]

Are they down to reading phonebooks yet? I might break the rules against streaming video to see that.

[AdA$tra]

Duck the Femocrats!

Did anyone post the number to the democrat cloak room that Sen Hatch read on the air yesterday?

[Hobsonphile]

Ping!

While you're sitting around at home, you might want to monitor this on C-Span.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, KS Flyover, for letting me borrow it...hehe

[Cosmo]

off topic, but how do I put a tagline by my name? Thanks. Free Miguel!!

[VRWC_minion]

Daschle claiming the Estrada refused to answer the questions. Attempting to take high ground. The guy is smooth.

[crude77]

I have a question. I understand that if this nomination were to go to the full senate that a simple majority is all that is required to confirm the nomination. I am unclear about cloture(sp). If the republicans invoked this would it change the number of votes required to comfirm the nomination in the full senate?

Thanks in advance-Greg

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Present and accounted for, sir...

Daschole is earning his nickname.

[jrcats]

I just called Bill Nelson of Florida to tell him to let Daschle know that the people are not confused & that we want Estrada to be confirmed today. Enough is Enough.

[Remedy]

Senate Is to Advise And Consent, Not Obstruct and Delay

Our Secularist Democratic Party (Long, Important Analysis)

Fascism, corruption and my 'Democratic' Party

[cake_crumb]

I'm really sick of the Senate Dems. We've got this war on terror and economic problems which need to be resolved.

I would love to hear some talking economic heads speculate that Dem obstructionism is causinf as much or MORE uncertainty in the markets and consumer confidence than worries about Iraq or the DPRNK

I guess that's why the Dems are doing this. It has nothing to do with Estrada's ideology, and everything to do with keeping gas prices sky high and the economy screweed up, because as ling as they screw around with the Estrada nomination, the better chance they have - they hope - of making their dream of another one-term Republican president come true so they can stick a Dem in the White House and get on with the One World, Third Way government...at least until the Ixlamakazis feel the infidel socialists have outlived their usefulness.

[latrans]

Everyone here should e-mail or call their Senators to express how important we consider this issue.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[MurryMom]

The Bush administration is missing the point in the Senate battle over Miguel Estrada, its controversial nominee to the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats who have vowed to filibuster the nomination are not engaging in "shameful politics," as the president has put it, nor are they anti-Latino, as Republicans have cynically charged. They are insisting that the White House respect the Senate's role in confirming judicial nominees.

The Bush administration has shown no interest in working with Senate Democrats to select nominees who could be approved by consensus, and has dug in its heels on its most controversial choices. At their confirmation hearings, judicial nominees have refused to answer questions about their views on legal issues. And Senate Republicans have rushed through the procedures on controversial nominees.

Mr. Estrada embodies the White House's scorn for the Senate's role. Dubbed the "stealth candidate," he arrived with an extremely conservative reputation but almost no paper trail. He refused to answer questions, and although he had written many memorandums as a lawyer in the Justice Department, the White House refused to release them.

The Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, insists that the Senate be given the information it needs to evaluate Mr. Estrada. He says there cannot be a vote until senators are given access to Mr. Estrada's memorandums and until they get answers to their questions. The White House can call this politics or obstruction. But in fact it is senators doing their jobs.

If a Democratic president had behaved as bad as Mr. Bush on his judicial nominations, Republican pols would be howling the "I" word by now.

[KLT]

Thanks for the ping...great pic...