After Trying To Abolish Filibusters Of Judicial Nominees In ‘05, GOP Threatens To Filibuster Obama’s Nominees
After Trying To Abolish Filibusters Of Judicial Nominees In ‘05, GOP Threatens To Filibuster Obama’s Nominees
In 2004, frustrated by successful efforts by Senate Democrats to block 10 of President Bush’s judicial nominees, Senate Republicans threatened use the “nuclear option” to remove the minority’s right to filibuster judicial nominations. “One way or another, the filibuster of judicial nominees must end,” said then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) in a speech to the Federalist Society.
But now that they are out of power and President Obama has the ability to appoint judges, Republicans are threatening a filibuster of judges if Obama doesn’t appease them. In a letter to the White House yesterday, all 41 Senate Republicans “requested that Obama respect the Senate’s constitutional role in reviewing judicial nominees by seeking their consultation about potential nominees from their respective states.” Politico explains their obstructionist threat:
“Regretfully, if we are not consulted on, and approve of, a nominee from our states, the Republican Conference will be unable to support moving forward on that nominee,” the letter warns. “And we will act to preserve this principle and the rights of our colleagues if it is not.”
In other words, Republicans are threatening a filibuster of judges if they’re not happy.
As RightWingWatch notes, this letter represents the GOP’s “evolving definition” of the Senate’s “advice and consent” role. For instance, in 2005, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) — who signed the GOP letter — wrote:
Focusing on President Clinton’s judicial nominations in 1999, I described what has been the Senate’s historical standard for judicial nominations: “Let’s make our case if we have disagreement, and then vote.” Democrats’ new filibusters abandons this tradition and is unfair to senators who must provide the “advice and consent” the Constitution requires of them through a final up or down vote. It is also unfair to nominees who have agreed, often at personal and financial sacrifice, to judicial service only to face scurrilous attacks, trumped up charges, character assassination, and smear campaigns. They should not also be held in permanent filibuster limbo. Senators can vote for or against any judicial nominee for any reason, but senators should vote.
As RightWingWatch points out, it’s “amazing” how soon after trying to “blow up the Senate with the ‘nuclear option’ in order to get rid of the filibuster, the Republicans in the Senate are now demanding a veto over the President’s nominees and threatening to filibuster if they don’t get their way.”
But the Senate GOP’s filibuster flip-flop should come as no surprise. In fact, their opposition to judicial filibusters during the Bush years was itself a change from their previous position, which supported filibustering Democratic-appointed judges.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 7:02 pmCircling the drain…
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:02 pmZooey is that a typo?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 pmFlag this post under the “IOKIYAR” keyword.
Cheers,
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 pmThere’s a simple explanation for all of this. Republicans in Congress are lying, unprincipled scumwads.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 pmNuke them!
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 pmOh for crying out loud, just let them.
Let them filibuster, and make Reid grow a pair and introduce the nuclear option.
Do it now before they lose both houses in 2010, and make the republican scum irrelevant.
Enough already.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 pmI think a filibuster is a great idea. Lets see the Republicans stand up and fight the nomination of a judge.
Are there any?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:16 pmDoes the nuclear option mean all the Republicans will implode?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:16 pmEvery day is a brand new day for a republican. When they wake up in the morning their first order of business is to turn on the weather to see which way the wind is blowing. That’s where the phrase came from; ‘Throw caution to the wind, and to hell with principles that aren’t OK’d by Rush the Whale’.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 pmRepugnicants think people have no memory. They look stupid and partisan.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 pmit’s a good thing president obama knows a lot about audacity…
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 pm…
Daily quote from the GOP: “Do as I do; not as I say.”
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:29 pmDon’t they get that the American people are tired of the same old song?
Shocking! Next thing you know they’ll be campaigning against the growth of debt and of the size of government.
Republicans live in a world without mirrors.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 pmRepublicans live in a world without mirrors.
When your the blood-sucking undead mirrors don’t really do you much good.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 pmVampires have no reflection…
Republicans live in a world without mirrors.
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I suppose that prevents them from seeing that they are pasty overweight white male living in the past has beens
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 pmAny bets on whether the repugs get questioned on this when they go on Beat the Press?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 pmOn a cheerful note: I’m willing to bet that this time around the Republicans are going to get called on their b.s. by the administration, and they’re going to have to explain why they were recorded saying one thing in 05 and are saying the complete opposite in 09. It would be nice if the Press would participate in the truthtelling.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:34 pmyour = you’re in #16… sorry :(
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:35 pmPoor Mr. Hatch; He finds himself on the receiving end of a very large scandal with his payola from the drug companies. How fascinating to look at his voting record.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 pmYou have no more credibility remaining. Even your state realizes you fleeced them for millions. Hope they appreciate you now.
Criminal behavior rewarded?
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March 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 pmNo prob. I have sort of given up on correcting my endless keyboarding impairments.
best -
Oh and mag lev trains make a lot of sense…
When they realize they no longer have a role to play for the next two years they just might.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 pmBig suprise,
Republicans “hope Obama fails” and are undermining his apointees and policies to ensure that he fails.
It’s one thing to oppose policies and to propose different policies, but to boldly assert, “I hope Obama fails” begs scrutiny.
In carrying out that wish, does the GOP intend to undermine all Obama policies, even those with which it agrees, simply in order to insure failure? That sounds a whole lot like treason. If the GOP has policies and appointments it considers better, set forth the merits and argue the GOP cause on better grounds than “screw the American people, screw our country, Obama must fail in order for the GOP to regain power.”
Ugh. This is OUR country…not a Red State managed by Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh, where power is all-important, Americans’ well-being be damned.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:44 pmWord to the wise for the GOP;
You don’t tug on superman’s cape.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 pmSnoBird Says:
Republicans “hope Obama fails” and are undermining his apointees and policies to ensure that he fails.
At least at IHOP you get yummy pancakes.
What does IHOF get us?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:53 pmWhy should hypocrisy from Republiscum surprised anyone?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:53 pmOops, I meant “surprise.”
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:54 pm“Regretfully, since we were not consulted in the previous administration, and our threats of filibuster were rejected by the nuclear option of eliminating the filibuster, the Democratic Conference is now able to support that Senators can vote for or against any judicial nominee for any reason, but senators should vote.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 pmAnd we will act to preserve this principle that the Republicans advocated a few short years ago and eliminate the filibuster with the nuclear option.”
Typical GOP..
Do as we say, not as we do.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 pmI’d like to see Reid threaten the nuclear option just to see who McCain and Lieberman could get for a new “gang of fourteen”.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:12 pmYou mean there is a Republican that is a hypocrite? How unusual!
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:19 pmWell then, I guess that the Democrats are just going to have to use the “nuclear option” on the filibuster.
Every day that goes by I am more and more amazed at how totally insane the Republican’t party has become. Soon we are going to have to start building mental hospitals to hold them all.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:19 pmrepubs have shown their gameplan with the stimulus:
Dems offer bipartisanship.
Repubs get concessions in the name of bipartisanship.
Repubs still vote against bill
Repubs take credit for the bill.
I heard but haven’t had time to verify that Rush at CPAC defined bipartisanship as beating the dems over the head till they do it your way.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:22 pmHypocrisy is universal
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:23 pmHoodathunk Says:
Does the nuclear option mean all the Republicans will implode?
We can only hope. But I’m not sure that we need the nuclear option to make them implode. They seem to be doing a good job of it themselves without our help. I had a long conversation today with a life-long Republican and I have to say it wasn’t in the least complimentary to her party. She actually told me that the Republican party bears no resemblance to the party she has belonged to for 40 years and soon she will be re-registering as an Independent.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:24 pmProud,
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:43 pmWould you like a do over? If you want to have a discussion we have to start with something rational and not just a lot of shock with no awe.
Bilbo #36,
What took her so long? Was eight years of Bush o.k. but McCain just didn’t catch her fancy?
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:47 pmProud Says:
Oh my gosh we can’t try and keep judges who want to kill babies off the bench that would be just awful. What would democrats do if they couldn’t kill babies and free terrorists?
Proud, are you saying that democrats want to kill babies by pushing them off benches? That’s just crazy. The meat would get all bruised. That’s why we use abortuariums, you dingbat.
And the only terrorists that have been freed so far are the ones bush let go. Remember the 61 freed detainees that returned to the battle field? Bush let them go.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:48 pmSen. Oral Snatch from Utah is the biggest religious hypocrite every elected to the Senate.
He claims to be a Christian (Morman) yet practices hate against his political foes with the gusto and incarnadine blood lust of the devil incarnate!!!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 pmWhat did the Constitution say about the tyranny of the minority?
Oh, that was majority.
Either way, the republican hypocrites are proving themselves to be less and less relevant with each passing day.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 pmdixie blood Says:
Sen. Oral Snatch from Utah is the biggest religious hypocrite every elected to the Senate.
He claims to be a Christian (Morman) yet practices hate against his political foes with the gusto and incarnadine blood lust of the devil incarnate!!!
And he dances too! With women! And he’s for stem cell research! the last one is true.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:53 pmProud Says:
Oh my gosh we can’t try and keep judges who want to kill babies off the bench that would be just awful. What would democrats do if they couldn’t kill babies and free terrorists?
*
we could watch you
pick your scabs.
:)
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:55 pmProud,
Could you name one Democrat who has killed a baby? Of course, that may be difficult for you in the first place, since you don’t understand the difference between a living breathing baby and a fetus. Frankly buddy, you have little to be Proud of.
Proud Says:
Oh my gosh we can’t try and keep judges who want to kill babies off the bench that would be just awful. What would democrats do if they couldn’t kill babies and free terrorists?
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 pmI think the Republicans have decided that the unitary executive is so yesterday.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 pmI think we have all fallen down the rabbit hole. Pushed, that is, by the pubbies. (Thanks, barfly, for that name in this new, alternative universe.) My head is still spinning. Have I landed yet? And when I do, how will I know which way is up and which way is down?
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 pmProd has trouble spotting republican hypocrisy.
Either that, or he’s just trying to change the subject.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 pmYes, its all Obamas fault that we have reached the theoretical limits of debt, credit and spending.
/snark
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 pmAll depends on whose Al is gettin’ …well you know, Gored.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 pmdixie blood,
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 pmif you check the founding and history of the mormon church, it was founded on blood and killing, and anti-christian.
Prod Said: What would democrats do if they couldn’t kill babies and free terrorists?
Wait. Didnt we go into Iraq to free the poor terrorists suffering under the evil dictator Saddam?
What happened to those purple dreams of yours Prod
And speaking of killing babies how is freeing them thru bombs, you know, pro-life? I thought Dubya wanted to free them from Saddam?
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 pmWhere are the democratic members of Congress? They should be on every available media outlet pointing out the flip flopping hypocrisy these spineless republicans are.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 pmDont the trollops ever get a new schtick? Ever?
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 pmThe Republicans are a bunch of freakin’ hypocrites???
Surely you jest? (And no, I didn’t call you Shirley.)
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 pmXisithrus Says:
The credit card wasn’t invented until 1967
Just before I invented ARPnet.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 pmJust before I invented ARPnet. =AG=
Another myth peddled by pundits parakeets.
Al Gore never said he invented the internet
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 pmMore proof of the disastrous last 8 years. Republicans can only think about themselves.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:42 pmThe AlGore here is nothing more than a pimple on the A$$ of the defacto leader of the Republican’t party. None other than Rush.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 pmClaim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he “invented” the Internet.
Status: False.
Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he “invented” the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The “Al Gore said he ‘invented’ the Internet” put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s “Late Edition” program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
Creating the internet is not inventing it AG. *FacePalm*
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 pmAl Gore is disappointed that I won’t even trifle with them…
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:51 pmMan these miserable repugs are at it again.
they messed up everything and then cause a filibuster because they have 41. If they had 31 they would be a lot more cooperative.
they messed up the world so now they want to continue even while they’re out of office.
they are hell bent in creating a total meltdown.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 pmThe Democrats should force about three ACLU lifers down the throats of these troglodytes. That would drive a stake throught the heart of the goopers.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 pmProud, if fetuses are living babies, with full rights, then your buddy bobby Jindal can’t run for president. he was conceived in India and only natural born citiznes of the US of A can be president.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 pmEither these Rs are senile, or they’re all copying the Tom Hanks’ SNL character ‘Mr. Short-Term Memory.’ Of course, a third option would be that their brains are made from Etch-a-Sketch screens…
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:09 pmI cant wait until they start emulating Lord Messiah Limbaugh and start taking a hundred oxycodone pills a day.
Family Values. Hah.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:18 pmThat’s it? That’s the hand you’re holding? Signing in as Algore, and trying desperately to be funny? Let me get this straight. You took the time to sign up for another account, logged in and this is what you have to offer?
Jesus Christ… you pugs are in worse shape than I could have ever imagined.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:19 pmalpuz3,
It’s not the first time that poster used that stupid Al Gore joke. He posts it every time he shows up. That alone is reason enough to ignore him completely.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:23 pmGot it… will do.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 pmI like how the GOP has made itself a running joke.
Feign outrage, say you’re responsible with money and the economy with a face of stone.
Even the best comics at the Improv can’t beat these jokers.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:34 pmalpuz3 Says:
You took the time to sign up for another account,
Time? What Time? Little Perl script and you can do 100’s of em at a time if you want. Try it putz3.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 pmI knew back in 04 that this would come back to bite the GOP and here it is.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 pmrepugs have kool-aid mustaches big
time.
Can one imagine one of these kool-aid drinks speaking with other heads of state? It would be an complete fiasco. It would look like chimpy revisted only more bullying.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:59 pm“I want Obama to fail” . . . the GOP mantra.
What exactly, to the point, is the GOP plan to win?
There isn’t one.
The GOP has utterly failed to show up. If you have no opinion, you have no voice.
Unfortunately, the GOP has found a voice in Diludad.
It’s the pharmaceutical heroin of Rush and anorexia of Coulter, both of whom need treatment. I know that they each have an enormeous following among among “Christian” conservatives, but they are both sick, sick , sick . . . and despite the “Christian” conservative movement (80 pereent) of Prop 8 funding coming from Utah, pretty amazing that Utah, statistically, tops all markets for porn consumption in the US. Amazing.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:02 pmNo need. Most progressives have no reason to keep trying to hide our online characters.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 pmEighty percent of money for Prop 8 in California came from Utah, and percentage-wise, Utah comsumes the largest amount of porn in the US. . . that’s per capita of citizens with access to cable. Check it out.
So Utah Mormons, love porn, and hate Americans that they consider “pervs.”
Not gay, but “don’t ask don’t tell” and don’t live/leave or breathe in Utah. Utah with its multiple wives and misdeeds should be left a state unto itself. . . you can check out any time you lik (if your gay or lesbian), but you can never leave (if you are the son, daughter or second wife of any zelot – or republican).
Hey, you’re in the belt-way, Utah repub enters your quarters, he’s one of the gang, his problems are not yours, we all hope Obama fails, my 12-year-old will never live in Utah, my granny will never get raped in a nursing home, my daughter will never lose her home to foreclosure, my grandson won’t ever have to declare bankruptcy because he got screwed on his student loan . . . I sure hope Obama fails.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:15 pmsectionop92 Says:
I like how the GOP has made itself a running joke.
Feign outrage, say you’re responsible with money and the economy with a face of stone.
Even the best comics at the Improv can’t beat these jokers.
You said it!
@
Ms Maddow said we don’t need their stinkin votes. HAHAHAHA SHI1FACES. hahahahaha
Can you understand that repugs?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 pmPretty amazing … just admitted to the whole world wide interweb what it has been up too.
Well now it’s documented, the minority is a super minority.
I’ve always had a hunch.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:20 pmWho selectively disconnects the past from the present?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 pmA Republican.
ralph the wonder llama Says:
No need. Most progressives have no reason to keep trying to hide our online characters.
Right ralph the wonder llama no need to hide your ONLINE CHARACTER. Do you even THINK before you post such STUPIDITY.
Post the truth about Fiazs’ sexual peccadillo’s or anything negative about Soros and see how long you last here.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 pmRush:
I HOPE AMERICA FAILS!!!”
HILAROUS
Now, let me talk to my mortgage broker . . . sheriff’s outside the house . . . renters must go. . .
Oooh yeah. . . guys from Countrywide outside the house . . willing to buy it for a buck! I’m saved!!!! Oooh yeah, but aren’t they the same guys that got me into this mess in the first place? Ooooh, yeah, but too late . . .
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 pmI’ve always gotten a kick out of people, in general, who pretend to be more than they actually are. Rarely is anyone fooled and it always comes back to bite them in the ass in one way or another. All one has to do is wait it out.
It’s a crazy kinda ego trip, that’s for sure.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 pmMr Gore is halfway to North Haverbrook to sell some other stupid bullshit monorail nonreality.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 pmWhy? It’s already admitted to using a script to log in under multiple identities. Why does it do this? Who cares, it does.
Let’s just let the poor fool suffer a poor fools fate… the least we can do is let it die the death it has earned and so deserves.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 pmSo he can, ummm….do what the democratics made famous?
“Bork” someone?
Reid. Where does that name ring a bell?
This isn’t the same senate democrat harry reid that has two sons lobbying? Granted, not as bad as democrat pelosi’s family member’s real estate dealings, but still, it could make a clinton blush, well, not really.
Why is there a train going from reid’s las vegas to disneyland in sotero/obama’s “no pork” historical spending bill?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 pmAnd you people don’t realize it’s all a game?
Just think…Carville and Matlin and what’s up with that. it’s all part of the game to keep everyone looking the other way.
I’m sure this one will be gone soon, but Google will be your friend.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 pmHas anyone else noticed that irrespective of our 2 house majority and control of the White House, the republicans seem to still be in charge?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 pmAlGore,
You’re
.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:04 amTrajan75 IQ,
You’re
Nutz also
March 4th, 2009 at 12:16 amIf that’s what it’s earned, than that’s what it deserves. This is after all, not an entitlement society.
Right?
March 4th, 2009 at 12:17 amYou guys are creeping me out. . . may I say:
From the phoenix will arise
a great prize,
Where Bush failed, de-reg’d to hell,
Will airse the Phoenix,
Obama, as will go the tale,
Of a white man, from Africa did hale,
who had a vision , and from that vision did hale,
a brand new America.
Hale, the newly branded America,
I’m coming to America,
I’m born of America, and yet coming to a newly branded America.
I love America.
Nothing rhymes with America, I did my best with “Hale”, but I know that we shall not fail. America, however you brand it, however the GOP may wish for us to fail, we shall overcome . . . we shall not fail.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:24 amIn fact I thought carefully about what I wrote. We have online personae here. They are not our real identities, but they serve as such in this community. I know the regulars by their writing style, their voices, their politics. We have no need to keep changing identities because we stand behind what we say here and we’re here for conversation and exchange of ideas.
The only ones who need to recycle login names are those who are only here to disrupt. The ones who don’t give a shit what they type because they don’t have to deal with any of the consequences — no loss of credibility, no ridicule, no accumulated history.
I have seen trolls write negative stuff about George Soros (who for some reason is a boogeyman to you guys) without getting banned, and I have no idea why it would be relevant to discuss any aspect of a moderator’s sex life. Opposing voices are welcomed here, as long as they’re respectful and really here to discuss topics.
I have no problem with TP banning trolls who are only here to amuse themselves with the 21st century equivalent of prank calling.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:24 amalputz3 Says:
If that’s what it’s earned, than that’s what it deserves. This is after all, not an entitlement society.
Right?
Sadly you are correct. But my 2 favorites were beefeater and EugeneDebs. Those were some pieces of work.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:25 am.
Why of course it’s O.K. to filibuster when it’s the GOP doing it…
NO?
But then again, if you’re a Democrat in Office, what’s a filibuster?
.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:26 amAl Gore, I wonder… why would one ever need to mention “Fiazs’ sexual peccadillo’s” on this forum?
What possible relevance could it have?
March 4th, 2009 at 12:29 amCan we talk about my sexual peccadillo’s” on this forum?
March 4th, 2009 at 12:33 amI had to look up sexual peccadillo.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:33 amalpuz3,
Try doing a little Therausus check on “America.”
I got nothing. America is a unique entity. We have a Bill of Rights within a Constitution, a document written by a Renaissance man, who knew about oppression, about French Huguenots, the Inquisition, the Islamic Extremists . . . the Druids … let’s just think of all of the religious extremests that the Declaration of Independence was designed to protect America against . . . if only Linmaugh could distinguish between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution . . .it probably wouldn’t matter . . . as the nine memo’s released 3/2/09 indicate, we lived under a dictatorship for the entire Bush Presidency . . . Let’s get back to American principles . . . enough said.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:01 amThesaurus . . . I take no pride in my typing. Just give me the freedom to type.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:04 amnow we’re talkin’
March 4th, 2009 at 1:16 amTrajan75 IQ,
Although I am not remotely musical, if you hum entry #98 to Neil Diamond’s “Coming to Amaerica”, it IS beautiful!
No, I’m not expecting Emmy’s, but it is truly poetic.
(Humm . . . “I”m coming to America. TODAY!” Mumm (High note . . ) TODAY (Low note, “humm – - mmm) TODAY! (mmm. . . . kind of America, “today” in soft tones).
[If any producers seeing this blog are thinking, "My - God, we have talent here." please contact me at the HuffPo! Thx ]
March 4th, 2009 at 2:03 amThey were against it before they were for it before they were against it before they were for it.
Talk about flopping like a fish out of water.
A fish out of water with a “nuclear option”.
Yeah, kinda scary in a surrealistic way.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:15 amIf the repubs decide to filibuster, it will be like blasting more holes in the bottom of their sinking ship.
I think Dems should move forward with nominations of judges who can counter the extreme turn to the right of the Bush judges. We’ll see if repubs are willing to follow through on their threats.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:38 ampsssst….I have an idea…come closer..
March 4th, 2009 at 9:44 amMAKE THEM FILIBUSTER!!!
Mathazar Says:
Word to the wise for the GOP;
You don’t tug on superman’s cape.
Concur. They should also heed the second line of the song:
March 4th, 2009 at 10:58 am“You don’t spit into the wind.” Spittle is already blowing back on them.
Saw this one coming…
March 4th, 2009 at 11:46 amI know this is going down to the Reichpublican’s level, but I think that if they do indeed filibuster, then the Reid and the Dems should do a preemptive strike with the nuclear option (within the present context, of course).
Let’s face it: If we don’t use it, they sure as hell will the next time they’re in power. Let’s hit them before they hit us!
March 4th, 2009 at 12:56 pmProud Says:
Killing babies is infantacide and is against the law. YOU are a moron. Your stupidity does not define reality. Go away troll you are too stupid to waste our time with your ignorance.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:09 pmAlGore Says:
Xisithrus Says:
The credit card wasn’t invented until 1967
Just before I invented ARPnet.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
You are a liar and a brainwashed fool trying to make hay out of a long ago debunked lie told by morons JUST LIKE YOU
March 4th, 2009 at 6:11 pmAlGore Says:
Sadly you are correct. But my 2 favorites were beefeater and EugeneDebs. Those were some pieces of work.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Did you try to make a point moron? You are a pathetic piece of garbage. Thinking he is funny while being simply stupid. You are a moron. A troll who knows he is too stupid to contribute so he just AIMS to annoy us. Well you are too stupid to pull that off too moron. You are a liar. You are a fool. You embarass yourself and are just plain too stupid to know it.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:17 pm