Limbaugh and Bush Part Ways Over Bolton
Limbaugh and Bush Part Ways Over Bolton
“Procedural delay” or filibuster? How should one describe the Senate tactic being used to get more information on John Bolton? Rush Limbaugh insists it’s a filibuster, and has been attacking the media for not using his terminology:
The press won’t say it, but it’s a Democrat fil·i·bus·ter: [Quoting the Associated Press] “The Republicans needed 60 votes to end the Democrat…” Look at this! “Democrat procedural delay.” (Laughter) A “procedural delay” that required a cloture vote is a filibuster! Sorry to scream, folks… but I want to be emphatic.
– Rush Limbaugh, 5/27/05
What will Rush say now that President Bush has announced he agrees with the media’s interpretation?
Q: What about the filibuster as a tactic, in general, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, it’s certainly been a tactic that’s been used on judges and Bolton, if this is a filibuster. I don’t know what you call it. I’m not sure they actually labeled it, filibuster. I’d call it — thus far, it’s a stall — stall headed toward filibuster, I guess.
– 5/31/05
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Well I hope that ‘The big fat liar’ doesn’t forget to blame Frist for it too because he voted for this ‘filibuster’ too.
May 31st, 2005 at 2:51 pmLet’s just call it “Sally,” and be done with it.
May 31st, 2005 at 3:12 pmHe certainly is em-FAT-ik.
May 31st, 2005 at 3:22 pmThen of course, should there actually be a filibuster of the Bolton nomination, Limpy will need to come up with an entirely new word to call it, since he already has used up the em-FAT-ik filibuster on this one.
May 31st, 2005 at 6:15 pmThat’s dumb. If the stall of a vote on Bolton becomes a full-fledged fillibuster it will be an extension of what is already is one. The whole point he was trying to make was the fact that the so-called “spirit” of the deal that just took place regarding fillibustering/constitutional option was to try to prevent partisan tactics and fighting such as this. Oh, and Rush isn’t even fat anymore, so, nice shot, but try again.
May 31st, 2005 at 8:20 pmHe’ll always be fat. A fathead.
May 31st, 2005 at 8:21 pmRush Limbaugh = Michael Moore
John Bolton is the poster child for what a person in the diplomatic corps should not be
If John Bolton worked for a major corporation, he would be fired.
Use your head.
Lose Bolton, Lose Tom Delay
Vote Clark. Wes Clark. He will be a President I can be proud of.
June 1st, 2005 at 1:57 amI agree, Sheck. I’d endorse Wes. A pro-choice anti-war general . . .who’dve thunk it? Tho I DO have to say that Rush
June 1st, 2005 at 8:36 amisn’t = Mike, as Mike’s never lied to us, nor misstated his facts. His $10,000 offer to find an error with Fahrenheit 9/11 still stands, as far as I know.
June 1st, 2005 at 8:37 amBoy, I hate to say this, but Rush is right, isn’t he? The Democrats are, quite rightly in my view, exercising their right to continue debate and prevent a vote on the Bolton nomination. Sure sounds like a “filibuster” to me. Moreover, they have, as far as I know, said they’ll continue it indefinitely until Bush turns over the documents they want. I don’t think the fact that the Dems have laid down conditions under which they will allow the vote to go forward prevents what they’re doing from being rightly labeled a filibuster.
And why shouldn’t they filibuster, anyway? Bolton’s a pig, and the White House won’t comply with requests that even the Republican leaders (e.g., Lugar) agree are reasonable. Plus, the Republicans went on and on during the recent “nuclear” showdown about how it was judicial nominations that were sacrosanct, that they didn’t care about other filibusters, etc., etc.
As for Bush’s characterization, he’s an idiot anyway, so why would you cite him as authoritative? I mean, really.
June 1st, 2005 at 10:54 amRush Limbaugh = Michael Moore? How do you figure? Are they twins? Clones? That is the silliest thing I have seen in a long time.
June 1st, 2005 at 5:47 pmLocke,
Watch Fahrenhype 911 and you will see how silly your claim is of a $10 K offer. Moore would be paying out hundreds of K.
June 2nd, 2005 at 2:03 amBuckshot invokes the same techniques Moore employs to refute Moore. What a maroon. And why haven’t they claimed the money? Just not in it for the money, I guess.
June 2nd, 2005 at 10:14 amAre any of his claims downright false? Granted, his opinions are his own, I speak only of the facts and figures that he presents. While overblown and hyperbolic, he told us what our mainstream media wouldn’t, and he shouldn’t have to. That is, after all, their job.
June 2nd, 2005 at 11:01 amWait, I misspoke. . .it’s not their job to present us with the facts. . .it’s their job to sell us their publications. . .my mistake. I feel it SHOULD be their job to present us with the facts.
June 2nd, 2005 at 11:25 amBuckshot knows that Michael Moore would feed a poor family of libertarian cannibals for at least a month.
June 2nd, 2005 at 12:52 pmPresident Bush is right; Mr. Limbaugh is wrong.
I am a conservativeâ€â€horror!â€â€who supports the Bolton nomination and would like to see it brought before the full Senate for a vote, sooner rather than later. However, this current STALL being employed by Democrats is similar to the one the GOP used against Abe Fortas back in the 60s.
Conservatives are unanimous in their belief that the Fortas nomination WAS NOT filibustered, merely delayed. As such, we laborers on the Right should be more discriminating in our nomenclature.
Ciao.
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