Comments on: The Difference Between O’Connor and Roberts

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:42:24 +0000

Dillema, you want a debate yet you show up here with a box protruding out of your back and all you can say is, “Anybody need wood”?.

It’s been done and yes it was funny the first time but seriously, get your own personality.

Try something like “its hard”. That should get you a few laughs.

By: Skid

Skid — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:20:56 +0000

Check it, Dilenema.

http://www.leahy.senate.gov/issues/nominations/pastfilibusters.html

By: Skid

Skid — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:18:22 +0000

Are you saying DilEnema, that none of the Repubs have used, or threatened to use, the filibuster?

By: progressive and proud

progressive and proud — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:11:52 +0000

Geez fellow Dems, this NED should make us all proud of our party. GOP – Party of the mean spirited. I relish the fact that this guy spends all of his time here, though, I think that says a lot about us all. We are definately more interesting and talking points get mighty old mighty quick.

By: The Northeast Dilemma

The Northeast Dilemma — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:59:10 +0000

http://theyhateamerica.blogspot.com

By: The Northeast Dilemma

The Northeast Dilemma — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:54:32 +0000

Skid – this is all about power. Republicans have it – Democrats don’t. If you don’t like, don’t nominate a liar like Kerry next time. Sorry, those the breaks folks!!! Bye, bye Roe! lol!

By: The Northeast Dilemma

The Northeast Dilemma — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:50:09 +0000

Republicans never filibustered judges Skid. Wake up – when they had the majority and Clinton was Prez, they denied some judges hearing, but never refused them a floor vote once they had passed committee. It’s a perk of being in the majority party.

Skid – get your facts straight.

By: Gary Kleppe

Gary Kleppe — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:41:02 +0000

The GOP will never be the minority until we get rid of Diebold and ES&S and have honest elections again.

By: Skid

Skid — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:38:07 +0000

McCain must have been sleeping away the last fifty years as well, eh DilEnema?

By: Skid

Skid — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:30:38 +0000

Did the Dems come up with the “nuclear option”, trying to change the rules and minority options?

By: Skid

Skid — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:27:46 +0000

Care to explain today?

By: Skid

Skid — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:27:04 +0000

How so?

By: The Northeast Dilemma

The Northeast Dilemma — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:25:53 +0000

Whatever Skid. You’ve obviously been sleeping for the past 50 years.

By: Skid

Skid — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:21:04 +0000

Watch your ass, DilEnema, the GOP WILL BE the monority sooner than later. The reason the GOP got away with using the fillibuster is because the Dems didn’t have the ignorance and gall that the GOPers have in power-drunkeness.

Like I said, watch your ass.

By: The Northeast Dilemma

The Northeast Dilemma — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:14:55 +0000

PP – you can’t justify the left’s scorched earth politics over the Courts so you won’t debate it. Understandable.

By: progressive and proud

progressive and proud — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:09:45 +0000

Meaningful to you? Is that why you are here? For something meaningful? Now that I can understand.

By: The Northeast Dilemma

The Northeast Dilemma — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:04:13 +0000

P & P – you didn’t address the filibuster issue. Could careless if you are proud to be a liberal. Save it and offer somethign meaningful please.

By: progressive and proud

progressive and proud — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:55:26 +0000

NED
Quite the contrary; it never sucks to be liberal. I am extremely proud to be for individuals; even the ones that some find insignificant; even the ones that don’t vote. While they quietly make America strong and healthy, they are getting more and more unhealthy without insurance coverage. That is what sucks to me.

Believe it when I say, like most liberals I hope, it is an HONOR to be who we are. When large corporations crumble, it will be us who will take care of the fallout. People, even huge bonus-earning CEOs that throw out more than some families will ever see, will eventually understand what it means to truly care about your neighbor – especially the one you haven’t met yet. It is easy to help people who will notice, it is truly progressive and proud to help those who never will.

To be liberal is to hear the individuals with the smallest voices which should be heard the loudest for they are the backbone of this country.

I reiterate – it is never an insult to be called liberal. I always smile and say thank you when I hear it. And believe me, I live in the South and I hear all sorts of intended-to-be-insults.

By: The Northeast Dilemma

The Northeast Dilemma — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:44:50 +0000

While I am at it, while Republicans can look back to the 90s and feel good about the way they treated Bader and Breyer, Democrats can’t feel that way about Thomas. This gives the GOP an excellent and potent talking point – “we don’t smear their nominees.”

AND the poetic thing about all of this – if Democrats had not blocked Roberts in 1992, they would have a paper trail to attack him on. The ghosts of liberal judicial politics are coming back to haunt you and I love it!

By: The Northeast Dilemma

The Northeast Dilemma — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:34:57 +0000

P & P – the nuclear option will NEVER haunt the GOP because if we are in the minority party and don’t have the WH, the MSM won’t shill for us like they do you. Case in point, in 1993 and 1994, Darth Bader and Breyer were appointed with little to know screaming and we all knew they were liberals. Republicans accept elections unlike some people. As for the filibuster you speak about – all of those judges were brought to a vote and only Ronny White went down regardless of what Frist did.

Liberals have judicial politics down to a science. The only SC nominee to be filibustered was Fortas – and it was bi-partisan and he didn’t have majority support. AND it was over ethics, not ideology. Republicans risk nothing by going nuclear because they don’t have the balls to block 10 judges via filibuster the way Democrats do.

Sucks to be a liberal right now.