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Posted on 09/04/2003 2:12:17 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 4, 2003
President's Statement on Miguel Estrada
Statement by the President
It is with regret that, at the request of Miguel Estrada, I have today withdrawn his nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. I understand and respect his decision, and wish Mr. Estrada and his family the best.
Mr. Estrada received disgraceful treatment at the hands of 45 United States Senators during the more than two years his nomination was pending. Despite his superb qualifications and the wide bipartisan support for his nomination, these Democrat Senators repeatedly blocked an up-or-down vote that would have led to Mr. Estrada's confirmation. The treatment of this fine man is an unfortunate chapter in the Senate's history.
When making your comments, please consider who the real culprits are in all of this -- The 44 Clinton DemocRAT Senators who are ordered how to cast their votes by Hillary Clinton which makes 45 Clinton DemocRAT obstructionist.
If we don't elect a larger Repubublican majority in the Senate that can break a filibuster, the continued stalemate on judges will continue, and there is absolutely nothing the President or Republican Senators can do. Senate rules say you can filibuster, so the DemocRATs will do just that on certain judges. It would not be wise to change the Senate rules that Republicans may need to use someday themselves!
Now you can continue to whine and get angry with Republicans, but it does absolutely no good -- time to channel that anger into something positive and work for a larger Republican majority in the Senate so this does not continue to happen!
Please send Mrs. Clinton and the other 44 Clinton DemocRAT Senators a message -- you intend to work to defeat each and every Senator that voted to obstruct the Estrada and other nominations and you will not rest until Clinton and her band of obstructionist are systematically defeated.
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The 24/7 option has always been a non-starter. And I've never heard enough solid detail of the nuclear option to really know if it would be legitimate.
But Ma's right. The villians here are the Dem senators. Period.
Yet just like in impeachment there will be a stampede of people blaming the Republicans.
One thing I've always admired about the President is that he rarely if ever loses his cool and throws insults. This is about as damning a statement I've ever heard him utter.
Maybe Estrada didn't want a recess appointment, it only last till Jan. 2005.
He probably wanted an up and down vote, which the petulant democrats denied him.
I certainly wouldn't want to go through this garbage again if I were an appointee targeted as some like Estrada have been. That is why, as PKM says, it is vital that we get enough of a majority in the Senate to stop this travesty.
IOW, you are applauding the democrats for throwing out 200 years of Senate judicial nomination precedent.
Estrada, tired of waiting for a confirmation vote, wrote Bush: "I believe that the time has come to return my full attention to the practice of law, and to regain the ability to make long-term plans for my family."I wish him success in his future endeavors..... There have been 145 nominees approved for Article III Judiciary positions since President Bush has been in office...... You don't win them all, witness the nomination of Bork.
There are currently 38 nominees in the Judiciary Committee going through the hearings process and 12 on the Senate floor awaiting confirmation hearings.......
If the DEMs have applied the rules in a way that was never intended (i.e., invoking cloture rule for judicial nominations), then what would be so bad about closing the loophole?
Is it wrong for a minority of Senators to block a judicial appointment regarded as appropriate by the majority? If your answer is "it's permitted by the rules," then don't complain about the DEM use of the rule.
My opinion is that the rule is wrong and should be changed.
It wouldn't have anything to do with real work, would it?
Monster Size BUMP! I'd also like to add that it's unfortunate, that this statement will not be read on ANY television stations anywhere in the continental United States of America. I also think he should've used the W.H. and the Office of the President as a bully pulpit and brought this to the average Americans attention w/ a press conference showing how angry he was about it and exactly what it means when RAT partisanship has flushed another person's reputation down the toilet. Perhaps now, George W. Bush will admit to himself that nothings really changed in D.C., even w/ Republicans in control of the Senate, nothing's changed. I sure would like to know what Karl Rove's thinking/long term planning is about this issue!!!
It wouldn't have anything to do with real work, would it?
Uh yes it would have dougie. The Pubbies would need 50 people there while Schumer tiraded for days. At any time Schumer could ask for a vote and in a weak moment defeat the nomination.
A real filabuster would have been much easier for the demos, especially with the press coverage of the "noble" Schumer talking for days against the "mean" Republicans.
The fact still stands that the demos are the ones who threw out 200 years of Senate precedent, and yet you are frothing at the mouth towards the Pubbies, while you give Hillary and the demos a free pass.
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