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2004-03-27 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Frank G 2004-03-27 5:03:29 PM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Idiots! Schumer's release followed a statement by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (search), D-S.D., It's hard to find good writers and proof readers anymore. If the Dimbulbs keep this up there's no way Daschle will ever be Majority leader again.

Posted by GK 2004-03-27 5:14:29 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:14:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 GK - good catch - I missed Tom Thumb's wrongful title

Posted by Frank G 2004-03-27 5:18:58 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:18:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 If the republicans can keep the dems from having dead people vote in SD maybe Daschle won't be going back to DC.

Posted by AF Lady 2004-03-27 5:25:32 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:25:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 So let me get this straight. The Dems, having approved the 'vast majority' of nominees, but, having disapproved a mere six nominees, President Bush's appointments in total somehow represents "packing the federal bench unilaterally with ideologues", and the Dems vowing to ~~not do their jobs~~ block "every single nominee" somehow does not seem to translate to "put(s) a finger in the eye of the Constitution".

As Fred would say, 'That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense...'

On the other hand, they just handed Bush another issue to beat Kerry & Co. over the head with. My prediction - this move will backfire like an old Ford Pinto.

Posted by Raj 2004-03-27 5:27:43 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-03-27 5:27:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Rejected nominees? What bullshit. Not a single one has been rejected because the Dems are too chickenshit to allow a vote.

Posted by someone 2004-03-27 5:51:06 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:51:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 someone? Exactamundo! Give that boy a lovely parting gift......

Posted by Frank G 2004-03-27 5:54:27 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:54:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone you are such a damn nit picker!

Posted by Shipman 2004-03-27 5:54:57 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:54:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder what they would have done if they had taken my advice and put in Kenneth Starr and Robert Bork on the bench, instead.

Posted by eLarson 2004-03-27 6:09:45 PM|| 2004-03-27 6:09:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 had kittens?

Posted by Frank G 2004-03-27 6:17:32 PM|| 2004-03-27 6:17:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Par for the Dims..Put the Party 1st then the country.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-03-27 6:22:23 PM|| 2004-03-27 6:22:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Hate to be contrary, but this is a smart political move by the Dems (not smart for the country but hell, since when has Daschle worried about that?). They're playing to their base here, keeping them energized for the fall. They'll need that if they want any chance at all of beating GWB.

By the way, the opposition party usually starts blocking nominations in an election year. They come up with various ways and guises, and the President always acts with (feigned) outrage. That's how it is, and the Republicans did it to Clinton and Carter. The opposition hopes that if their boy wins, they can then fill these slots the following year. It's SOP, so I wouldn't get too upset over it.

As to Pickering and Pryor, there isn't much hope of their getting confirmed in 2005 even if GWB does win. They're marked by the Dems, and if the Dems only have 41 Senators, all 41 will hang together and stop the confirmations. Pickering won't care; he's at the end of his career and being an Appeals Court judge, even for a year, caps that career. Pryor has politican ambitions, so being off the court in 2005 won't hurt him -- getting bounced 'cause the Dems won't confirm him actually will help him in Alabama for whatever state office he goes for next.

Prediction: Bush won't do any more recess appointments (or no more than one), because no one else is in a position where being on the Circuit Court for just a year helps them. Bush will push his usual, middle-of-the-road nominees and try to use the stall to energize the Republican base.

Posted by Steve White 2004-03-27 6:43:35 PM|| 2004-03-27 6:43:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The Democrats are the ones that started the nomination wars in the Senate with the public cruxifixion of Bork and the attempted cruxifixion of Thomas. One because he said the constitution means what it says and is not a rubber band that can be stretched to fit ones political goals. The other because he wasn't "Black" enough.

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-03-27 6:47:02 PM|| 2004-03-27 6:47:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 SW's tke is accurate, but the Pack base should motivate over this: "how many 'under God' cases would come forth if W loses?"

Posted by Frank G 2004-03-27 6:49:03 PM|| 2004-03-27 6:49:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 The Dem base is already attacking people who have the temerity to support the President. God only knows what they'll do if they get any more "energized".

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-03-27 6:53:59 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-03-27 6:53:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 internally combust? Gaawddd!! If we could only harness that we could avoid drilling in ANWAR

Posted by Frank G 2004-03-27 7:06:45 PM|| 2004-03-27 7:06:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 See who rules America? Due to censorship we inserted "*", delete them. http://A*DLUSA.com

Posted by Anonymous 2004-03-27 10:56:37 PM|| 2004-03-27 10:56:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-03-27 11:48:28 PM|| 2004-03-27 11:48:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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