Tuesday, May 10, 2005

 

Filibuster Fight Fires Up!

The Senate is back in session and the "Lllllet's Get Ready to Rrrrrumble...." The showdown should come this week or next. The pro-filibuster crowd is getting so shrill that I have to think we are winning. let's tackle the serious stuff first.

Best place to stay minute-by-minute up-to-date? Confirm Them.

Easiest way to influence the Republicans that might hit for the other team? Beyond The News.

Needless to say, Hugh Hewitt is all over this. This post of his quotes the Presidential statement of yesterday.

Did you know this whole thing is really about presidential aspirations? The most important question is who has the best shot at the post-Bush Republican nomination Hagel or Frist? It's not about having abortion shoved down our throats, or statistical equivalence substitutes for equal opportunity, or Terri Schiavo dying, no it's over politics. At least that is the opinion of Tom Curry at MSNBC and Cokie Roberts. You have to love Cokie, she says what the Dems should be doing, and then does it.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on Hagel's talking head appearance over the weekend. Check this:
A leading Senate Republican expressed hope Sunday for a deal to end the divisive fight over the filibustering of judicial nominees, saying that "some of us might be moderately intelligent enough to figure this out."

"We need to work through this," said Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) who is publicly undecided about whether to endorse the GOP threat to use their Senate majority to ban such filibusters.
As best as I can tell, Hagel is leading only in the eyes of the MSM, taking on that McCain-like aura of the annointed one, that no one actually gives attention.

Matt Drudge reveals the real reason for this big fight.

The Seattle Times resurrects the "it's just those lunatic right wing Christians" arguement in this profile of Rick Scarborough.

The Gallup organization reports on a poll claiming that most Americans want the filibuster preserved. Here is the money quote, one of their "conclusions"
When the filibuster situation is explained to Americans, the majority appear to favor keeping the rule in place.
I believe explaining the situation to them is the definition of a push poll.

In case you haven't noticed, (and I'm betting you haven't) Princeton stundents have been filibustering in support of the filibuster.
"I know I'm drunk, but I still want to sign up," a student says to her friend, walking over to the blue "Frist Filibuster" support tent.
In the words of the immortal Stan Lee "'Nuff Said!"

But the biggst laugh comes from old friend CivilRights.org. We've already worn out the fact that the filibuster is civil rights worst enemy in the post reconstruction period, but I could not believe this:
"It is absolutely unconscionable that the president and Senate Republican leaders are prepared to destroy our system of checks and balances over a handful of unfit, unqualified judges like Rogers Brown and Owen," said Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
Now bear in mind, Janice Rogers Brown is black. This is proof positive that when it comes to civil rights, race matters more than qualifications, only if the person of color is a liberal. Obviously if they are conservative their skin color changes.

Like I said -- SHRILL!

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