[Wait4Truth]

Ping for the President's slam on the Dems on Miguel Estrada...weekly radio address!

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for the ping! I just heard a clip of this on Fox and wondered if it had been posted.

Glad to hear that he is keeping the pressure on!

[blackie]

GWB Is The Man!

Be Ever Vigilant!

Be Well - Be Armed - Be Safe - Molon Labe!

Let's Roll!

[Reagan Man]

>>>Yet a handful of Democratic senators, for partisan reasons, are attempting to prevent any vote at all on highly qualified nominees.

The battle lines are drawn.

[MeekOneGOP]

I wonder if this might get mainstream media coverage? I surely think not. That also is a disgrace !

Yet a handful of Democratic senators, for partisan reasons, are attempting to prevent any vote at all on highly qualified nominees. One of these nomiees is Miguel Estrada, my selection for the D.C. Court of Appeals. I submitted his nomination in May of 2001, and Miguel Estrada has been waiting ever since. That's almost two years, and that's a disgrace.

Miguel Estrada's credentials are impecable. He has served in the Justice Department under Presidents of both political parties. He has argued 15 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he has earned the American Bar Association's highest mark, a unaimous rating of well qualified.

Miguel Estrada is an exceptional nominee for the federal bench. He also has a remarkable personal story. He came to America from Honduras as a teenager, speaking little English. Within a few years, he had graduated from high honors from Columbia College and Harvard Law School. Miguel Estrada then served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, as a federal prosecutor in New York, and as assistant to the solicitor general of the United States.

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Some senators who once insisted that every appeals court nominee deserves a vote have abandoned that principle for partisan politics. Their tactics are unfair to the good man I have nominated, and unfaithful to the Senate's own obligations. I call on the Senate Democratic leadership to stop playing politics, and permit a vote on Miguel Estrada's nomination.

Thanks for the post and the ping...

[McGavin999]

He's absolutely right. To deny the man a vote, because they know he will win, is disgraceful and demeaning. The man is obviously well qualified and he's being denied a vote. If that isn't discrimination, nothing is.

[Republic]

Thanks for the ping! HURRAH! Glad our main man is getting behind his nomination like these. Estrada is going to make it-and Daschle and Hitlery can stick it!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you for this ping, Wait4Truth! I'm sending out letters to the editor to my state papers, contacting national groups, thanking our Senators.

If our busy President is pushing so hard for Miguel with all he has on his shoulders, the least we can do is light a fire under our Senators and neighbors.

Senators:

"We cannot ask a [judicial] candidate what he would do; and if we did and he should answer, we should only despise him for it." So sermonized President Abraham Lincoln to Rep. George S. Boutwell.."

LET MIGUEL HAVE A VOTE!!!