Now the spit is going to hit the spam
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| Goddamnit... just give an up or down vote... that's all you have to do... that's all you should do. Don't give me crap about a miniroty being silenced or whatever... we're a representative democracy, our government is run by people that represent the majority, that's how the system is supposed to work! |
Zoomba, can you say it with a little more passion? I admire your deadpan, but put some spark into it! 
| This is the big one, the one the Congressional Democrats have been wringing their hands over. O'Connor has been the "swing vote" for a lot of years and the deciding vote in a lot of cases, the feathers are going to fly in the Senate now!! |
I agree totally. I think Rehnquist would have been an easy one as the worst they would have gotten is a tit for tat. But O'Connor being a swing vote, they are going to fight her replacement visciously. They are already gearing up for the fight.
| Rehnquist was certainly the expected retiree... and there's still time, I think. If it had been Rehnquist that was stepping down, noone would have blinked. Conservative judge gets replaced by conservative judge. Not much of a shift. |
Great minds think alike! And I dont think they are squirming. They are just gearing up for a filibuster.
| And now we'll see how much "roadbuilding" Dem-friendly McCain actually accomplished. I'm betting somewhere in the neighborhood of zilch. |
Rehnquist was certainly the expected retiree... and there's still time, I think. If it had been Rehnquist that was stepping down, noone would have blinked. Conservative judge gets replaced by conservative judge. Not much of a shift. Great minds think alike! And I dont think they are squirming. They are just gearing up for a filibuster. |
| Besides, what do you think will happen when the Democrats regain the majority? |
| " Besides, what do you think will happen when the Democrats regain the majority?" |
| Sticks finger in ear..lalalalalal.... Sorry Doc I couldn't resist when I saw yours about this! |
Oh, this is the calm before the storm!
| Which the republicans will "promptly" blow-up with the "nuclear option"! |
If they can find some spines between now and then.
| You guys think you saw the real hatred from the left. Just wait. Nothing they did before the election will compare to the hate that is coming. |
Oh, I know it! Already Biden is spitting on himself:
| "If [Bush] sent up Edith Jones, I could assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight - and she would probably be filibustered," Biden told CBS's "Face the Nation." In the next breath Biden corrected himself, saying: "I misspoke, I misspoke. Janice Rogers Brown is what I meant to say." |
ANd he actually got elected!
| Besides, what do you think will happen when the Democrats regain the majority? |
If you can show me where the republicans used the filibuster on Judicial nominees in the past, your statement might have some relevance. As it is, Ruth Buzzi got a unanimous vote, even tho she is left of Mao.
| That's not a when, it's an "if". |
And the way they are going, a BIG if.
| More importantly, people MIGHT start taking who they elect to the White House and Congress more seriously, since they will actually feel the results in terms of their rights. |
If there are any left by then.
| I remember Nixon. The Republican Party was in shambles. |
The difference between Nixon of the 70s and the democrats of the 21st century, is the Republicans took their lumps got over it and went on. The democrats refused to take their lumps (it depends on what he meaning of the word is is), refuse to get over (Bush is a liar and a thief) it, and refuse to move on (Selected not elected).
| Watch for the vitriol and invectives to start flying! Wipe your mouth--you're drooling. |
Oops! Scuse me please.
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