Thursday, May 19, 2005

Oh, Really? Senator...

I’m not a particular fan of filibusters; don’t really like them at all, but I’m an unabashed critic of those who attempt to re-write history while claiming moral superiority and Frist is doing that now. His sanctimonious attitude regarding the threat of a filibuster is nauseating to say the least. He speaks of the filibuster as if it were some evil plot hatched by Democrats, and of course, no Republican would ever dream of doing something so vile. What a little man he is…

“Republican Senator Strom Thurmond has the distinction of holding the Senate's filibuster record of 24 hours and 18 minutes." (Senator Thurmond had lots of unsavory items in his history and this is just one of the least offensive.)

“In 1975, the Senate reduced the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds to three-fifths, or sixty of the current one hundred senators.”

Cloture, the Senate rule that allows for the shutting off of a filibuster is available for the Republicans to use if they so wish…so why are they ignoring it and going for the “nuclear option” without trying to negotiate a settlement?

Let me repeat. What a little man he is…

4 comments:

  1. Pretty much typical...it certainly isn't EVERY JUDGE. Bush has had over 200 of his appointees approved. It happens to be about four or five of the least qualified. Get your facts straight.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Facts...it's all supposed to be about facts, not what you would like it to be. Fact: It's not one issue. The fact that the candidates appear to be in the pocket of "Big Business" should alarm everyone. Fact: The judges do not even enjoy 100% support from their own side of the aisle. Alberto Gonzales has been very critical of Brown. Fact: 49% of Americans did not vote for this president...

    Priscilla Owen

    Record of judicial activism in favor of corporations and against consumers and individual rights
    Even her current and former colleagues, including current attorney general Alberto Gonzales, have criticized her efforts to rewrite the law from the bench to impose her own beliefs.
    Janice Rogers Brown

    Record of hostility to workers’ rights and victims of discrimination.
    Said that 1937 (the year that the courts upheld New Deal legislation) “mark[ed] the triumph of our own socialist revolution.”
    Used her position to push a view of the Constitution that would eliminate worker protections like minimum wage laws, give corporations free reign to abuse workers and the environment, and undermine constitutional protections for fundamental rights and liberties.
    William Pryor

    A leading architect of the recent “states’ rights” or “federalism” movement to limit the authority of Congress to enact laws protecting individual and other rights
    Advocated the view that the Constitution should not apply to some of the most critical issues pertaining to individual rights and freedoms — including reproductive choice, gay rights, and school prayer — and that these matters should be decided by the states, based on majority vote, regardless of whether constitutional rights are violated; this ideology would effectively create a balkanized America in which individual citizens may have fewer constitutional rights depending on where they live.
    William Myers

    Devoted to advancing the interests of grazing and mining industries at the expense of the environment and the rights of Native Americans and tribal governments, even during his tenure on the public payroll as Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.
    More than one-third of the panel of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary found him “unqualified” for the bench, while not one considered him “well-qualified” for the position.

    ReplyDelete
  3. See how important facts are...I misspoke and named Brown as the judge disfavored by Gonzalez. It wasn't Brown at all. It was Priscilla Owen. Sorry.

    ReplyDelete
  4. No apology is necessary...Thanks for the kind words.

    But...just to clarify. My wife is a Democrat and she is not pro-death. My wife and I are Christians and we are not Republicans. God is neither a Republican or a Democrat...

    ReplyDelete