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Home Front: Politix
Drudge: Sen. Schumer Caught On Cellphone: 'We Are Going To War' Over Supreme Court
2005-07-06
Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Schumer got busy plotting away on the cellphone aboard a Washington, DC-New York Amtrak -- plotting Democrat strategy for the upcoming Supreme Court battle.

Schumer promised a fight over whoever the President’s nominee was: “It's not about an individual judge
 It's about how it affects the overall makeup of the court.”

The chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!

Schumer proudly declared: “We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.”

Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: “Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.”

Schumer later went on to mock the “Gang of 14” judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn’t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.

“A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.”

By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and “Gang of 14” member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.
Posted by:Moonbat Barbie

#1  Go ahead. Do it.

Note to DhimmiDonk Senators: the "filibuster" is not a right. It's nowhere to be found in the Constitution. It is was a "parliamentary" courtesy, generously offered to those who wish wished to courteously dissent by temporarily delaying the eventual will of the Senate majority in an up or down vote.

The Constitution does, however, clearly give the majority the power to call for and conduct that vote - with or without minority consent.

Go ahead, abuse it one more time. I dare you.

Time to get NUKED.

In 20 or 30 years, I'll wager the Moonbat genome will be mapped. Senators and Congresscritters alike will curse your names and demand DNA tests be added to political office filing papers - to prove the potential candidate isn't one of your type or progeny.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-06 23:44  

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