With Miers Nomination Buried, Frist Resurrects Up-or-Down-Vote Principle
With Miers Nomination Buried, Frist Resurrects Up-or-Down-Vote Principle
A day before President Bush accepted Harriet Miers’ withdrawal from her nomination to the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) gave White House chief of staff Andy Card a “frank assessment of the situation in the committee and in the full Senate.†Frist’s “frank assessment” represented the culmination of the right-wing’s efforts to stop Miers from receiving a single hearing, let alone an up-or-down-vote in the full Senate.
After Miers’ nomination was pulled, the Washington Post’s David Broder said that “there is no plausible way the White House can insist that every major judicial nominee deserves such a vote.â€
Frist seems to have found a way – just forget the Miers debacle ever happened. On Fox News Sunday, Frist trotted out the pre-Miers talking points:
So I think it would be unconscionable — I think it would be wrong — I think it would be against the intent of the founding fathers and our Constitution to deny Sam Alito an up or down vote on the floor of the United States Senate. I have stood from day one on principle that these Supreme Court justices — nominees deserve an up-or-down-vote, and it would be absolutely wrong to deny him that.
Our video diagnosis of Frist: selective amnesia.
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Well I fine it hard to blieve that Mr. Frist would lie but maybe it did happen.—————–OH————-OH.
December 12th, 2005 at 12:16 pmDeal with it. Miers was give away for the left and you still opposed her. I will be seated. Please accept it.
December 12th, 2005 at 12:19 pmWhat will be sooo amusing with this “up or down” nonsense is in 2006 or 2008 when the D’s win back the senate, the R leadership will flip flop on this line of “reasoning” like a fish out of water.
December 12th, 2005 at 12:22 pmF-I-L-I-B-U-S-T-E-R.
Anti-children.
December 12th, 2005 at 12:24 pmLies under oath.
It seems their catch phrases are getting old. Surely the average American can see past a cute jingle. Up or down, flip flopper, when they stand up we stand down, stay the course, etc. I’m sure I forgot a few – thank GOD!
December 12th, 2005 at 12:27 pmCat Killer Frist doesn’t read his own clippings.
December 12th, 2005 at 12:32 pmHow come trolls have not integrity? Why don’t they have any honor? You would think that trolls have at least one shred of decency, but the ones here don’t.
My opinion is that they had horrible terrible mothers and fathers.
December 12th, 2005 at 12:34 pmMorals have ups and downs just like the political hot winds , ambitions and grand standings of idiots who forgot the true meaning of a polititian -art of governing and service – Frist fits more the definition of trash and ass licking troll at the service of the interests Alito wishes to protect. Surely he must have long forgotten his dual oaths. CALL HIS BLUFF AND IF NEED BE FILIBUSTER .
December 12th, 2005 at 12:52 pm#7 – kindness, the thing about trolls having horrible mothers and fathers is a bit personal. It may be true or not, but throwing down on mom & dad will just create a flamewar. Don’t give ‘em more reason than they already think they have… Just sayin’, because I think you’re fabulous.
December 12th, 2005 at 12:57 pmThe nuclear option is the only tool we have left to show our support for the president.
-Frist
December 12th, 2005 at 12:59 pmDr. Frist,
We are watching and waiting to pounce.
-The Ghosts of the Dead Cats You Killed
December 12th, 2005 at 1:05 pmWell, I think we should be fair. Alito should have the same right to an up-or-down vote that Lani Guinier got when she was nominated by Clinton.
December 12th, 2005 at 1:08 pmFirst Cat Killer was for an up-or-down vote (Roberts), then he was against it (Meiers) and now he is for it again! I can’t keep track! Flip flop flip flop flip flop!
December 12th, 2005 at 1:08 pm#11 GSD, LOL!
December 12th, 2005 at 1:23 pmFlip-Flopper Frist brings back the “up-or-down vo
It’s absolutely amazing that these people can say these things with a straight face. I guess when you tell enough lies then you forget which lies you’ve told and you just say whatever the hell you feel like saying with little regard to history and th…
December 12th, 2005 at 1:45 pmWhen will the media ask questions outside of the RW talking points…it’s like the trolls that take over the thread and soon the original message is lost…why not ask him about Miers, why let him explain his “inquiry/investigation”
December 12th, 2005 at 2:04 pmzookeeper – your sarcasm meter wasn’t adjusted correctly to my earlier post.
I have no doubt that good parents can and do produce lousy kids and bad parents can and do produce good kids.
Please accept my apologies.
December 12th, 2005 at 2:26 pmOn topic though – I’m kind of looking forward to the impending filibuster. It should produce interesting constitutional issues on many levels.
December 12th, 2005 at 2:29 pm16- Ah, the “Echo Chamber” in full effect. The media is damn near worthless. Too worried about the “bias” BS, to notice that they give lies as much time as the truth, if not moreso.
December 12th, 2005 at 2:30 pm#17 – Sorry, kindness, I had my bullshit meter running instead. Thanks.
December 12th, 2005 at 2:34 pmhe’s just hoping we’ve all forgotten… we haven’t!
December 12th, 2005 at 2:44 pmI vote that Frist puts one thumb up his ass and the other down his throat…
December 12th, 2005 at 3:21 pmMuch as I’d like to see Alito get turned down,I don’t think it’s going to happen unless he does a Bork and commits nomination suicide. I’d be surprised if there are enough Democrats to uphold the filibuster. How many would have to vote with the Republicans? Six or seven?
December 12th, 2005 at 5:14 pmClearly a competency hearing is in order for Frist. He can’t remember stock sales or even that he had stock in his own families’ company, he can’t remember what he said about up and down votes, etc. He probably thinks filibuster has something to do with going to Philadelphia and doing a walking tour to lose weight. what a turd.
December 12th, 2005 at 5:20 pmFlip-flop forgetful = Frist.
December 12th, 2005 at 6:53 pm[...] I’m beginning to feel sorry for the poor Senate Majority Leader. He’s had a difficult week. After hypocritically threatening to punish Senate Democrats if they filibustered Sam Alito, he was dressed down by the Senator Byrd. His poor leadership has caused the Senate to delay Alternative Minimum Tax reform until next year. And he’s nervous about continuing investigations into insider trading and conflict of interest charges derived from his holdings in his dad’s health care company, HCA. His spokesman “freaked” when a reporter asked Frist if he was truthful in claiming he had “no earthly idea” how much HCA stock he held. (He wasn’t.) [...]
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