[conservativecorner]

What can you say about a party that is still in love with the Arkansas Mafia after everything that has happened to this country? So many failures while Bubba was in charge!

[ez]

Democrats are for minorities...as long as they stay in their place.

[WorkingClassFilth]

A DEMOCRAT FILIBUSTER TACTIC COMING SOON TO A SENATE CHAMBER NEAR YOU:

Alderman Irene Smith cited for public urination

07/23/2001 08:45 PM

St. Louis police issued a citation Monday to Alderman Irene Smith related to her apparently having urinated into a waste basket during floor debate last week.

City Counselor Patti Hageman said her office would decide whether to charge Smith, D-1st Ward, with violating the city's ordinance against public urination. If a charge is filed, it will go to the city courts, where Smith once was the chief judge.

The incident took place July 17 as Smith filibustered against a redistricting bill.

The presiding officer ruled that Smith would yield the floor if she left to use a restroom. Friends of Smith surrounded her with a quilt, sheet and tablecloth as she appeared to urinate. Smith has refused to say whether she actually did.

Smith could not be reached for comment Monday. Her attorney, Anita Rivkin-Carothers, said if Smith is charged, she will plead not guilty, relying on the city's "inability to prove her guilty of any violation."

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/7F6CE8C56153413A86256A93000B953B

[OldFriend]

The democrats have declared war on America.

[hexpoppy]

I have always thought this is a simple case of profiling: He's hispanic----he's probably Catholic---he's probably pro life.

[The Wizard]

and after 2004, GWB will have 60 votes.

[bvw]

Midge Rendell, Ed Rendell's wife ("Fast Eddie" is now PA gobnuer, was National Democratic Party Head for a while, and mayor of Philly prior). What I have heard from a reliable source who was a high-ranking member of Rendell's Philly Administration is that Ed transfered a total of $500,000 from his campaign funds to Clinton's. That was $250,000 to buy his wife a Federal Bench, and some time later another $250,000 to buy a Federal Appellate seat -- that's the level Senor Estrada is up for.

The cover story is that she got it by her connections, her "civic" (arts) contributions of time and energy. Senator "Magic Bullet" MacArlen Specter vouches for that story. Now MacArlen's own Lady MacArlen -- what post did Clinton give her? It's a high one in the taxpayer-funded national "arts".

What many folks liked about Clinton -- and this is important too -- is that he wasn't walled off. He was accessible. You just needed the money, the swag, or a solid bloc of votes (a money equivalent), or private appointment moxie -- all to the trade. You could buy your way in.

Mike Royko, the Cubs fan and political commentator, used to say the most dangerous politician is one who can't be bribed. I don't agree -- this is what I was taught, by my own political teachers -- but I don't agree. What the cutter is is this: the most dangerous politician is the one who is myopic, who listens to only a chosen "golden" or "elite" few and shuts out the rest, or shuts out -- prejudicially -- some group, because say they are low class, they are dirty jews, they are subhuman apeish irish micks, they are spics, they are papists, they are niggras, they are white-trash, etc, etc. Bribes, any free commerce, legit and not, are not in the long-term prone to that weakness of caste-ing that makes for seperations, oppressions and then tyranny.

The Clinton Judges, many or some, may be presumed to have been buy-ins, in by bribe. That's a rot.

Here is a man, Estrada, not in by bribe, and the masters of bribery are in ruckus -- is their dear well of bribes to be boarded up?

[monocle]

Has anyone in the Democratic party considered the possibilty that Congress may be the root cause of their concerns with Estrada? Most appeals to the court to which Estrada was nominated deal with the interpretation of laws passed by Congress and rarely deal with Constitutional issues. Appellate courts are not fact finders. It stands to reason that if Congress passed more intelligable legislation, the need for judicial review would be greatly reduced and the room for judicial interpretation would narrowed considerably.

[wayoverontheright]

The sole reason the Senate is going for a filibuster is because Miguel Estrada is Hispanic.

Nope. There's a lot more going on here.

It's about pandering to the pro-abortion constituency, pure and simple, a cohort much, much larger than the potential number of Hispanic votes.

The fillibuster also has the collateral benefit of delaying the Bush agenda in a way that seems to be ideological and is purely political.

I agree that this is a huge blunder on the part of the dems, but it's not about race.

[lodwick]

bttt

[Rollee]

I have often said that the average liberal is one of the most racist persons in America. How else would you explain the obsession they have with a person’s race?

It also explains why the liberals have such an obsession with gun control. Notice the blue states: they have a high concentration of minorities in urban areas, and also a high concentration of liberals. Why do you think Daley in Chicago keeps pressing for more and more RKBA restrictions? He is quaking in his racist little boots about Chicago's blacks, hispanics, etc. legally owning firearms. He would lose physical and mental control of these citizens. He would also lose his stranglehold on the city of Chicago and by default (Blowgoyovich) Illinois.

[Puddleglum]

I think it's about two things: protecting that shoddy ruling called Roe vs Wade, and getting Bush to spend money from his war-chest on ads countering the filibuster.