Miguel Estrada withdraws name for court nomination (Breaking CNN)

[Flubadubya]

NO further details except that he has written the White House and withdrawn his name from nomination saying this has all been too hard on his family.

[shanti]

1. woo hoo!

good. the pressure worked!

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[Cha]

3. Poor thing!

It wasn't too hard when he was busy being the kind of judge he is to deserve all those votes against him.

[meegbear]

4. withdrew his name ...

it's amazing how many people just seem to "fall on the sword". I'm sure someone in the WH had a hand in his "decision".

[Le Taz Hot]

5. THIS is what happens

when Democrats grow a spine!

[plcdude]

20. that is exactly

right. It is not a matter of being a nice person or not it is standing up for what is right and that takes a spine.

[Cadfael]

6. link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=3&u=/ap/20030904/ap_on_go_co/senate_judges

[Judi Lynn]

22. Great Yahoo story! They really worked it-

Poor, unloved Estrada, awwww, poor thing.

Last spun sentence of the article:
(snip) Republicans accused Democrats of treating Estrada unfairly because he is a conservative Hispanic. (snip/...)

Thanks for the link, Cadfael. :bounce:

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Yes!!!!!!!

Sit down, Miguel... but not on THAT bench!

[Vis Numar]

8. No, this is orchastrated

This is orchastrated to get him in the news, the embattled Republican Latino, in order to influence outcome in the CA election. Bush will 'talk' with him, and he will continue the fight...

[cspiguy]

9. he will tell chicanos to walk off the liberal plantation

of some conservative crap like that

[piece sine]

10. we haven't seen the last of him

He'll been very active in the Re-Election campaign as a wedge issue between Dems and Hispanics. This is far from over; in fact, we'll be seeing more of him than ever. It's called hardball.

[UTUSN]

11. In the Meantime, Wooo-Hooo! Dan COULTER's His Hag

The Faux dude ASNER couldn't put "Hispanic" ENOUGH times in this stumbler of a sentence:

"ESTRADA is the Harvard educated Hispanic, Honduran, from Honduras, Hispanic."-----------swear to Zeus!

Anyway, all hail, SCHUMER, LEAHY, the Hispanic Caucus, the Professor, Mary Ann, and the rest!

[LynneSin]

28. wow, Hondurans are from Honduras??!!!

I thought they were from Slovakia or something!

"ESTRADA is the Harvard educated Hispanic, Honduran, from Honduras, Hispanic."-----------swear to Zeus!

[ewagner]

12. Limbaugh should be interesting today

His spin on this has always been the "hypocrisy" of the liberals. It goes something like this:

Estrada is Hispanic therefore the Liberals should be 100% behind him because Libs are always yapping about inclusion. The dems are against Estrada so they're hypocrits!

Expect to see this played out over and over and over again during the 2004 campaign.

[TheYellowDog]

13. It won't matter that much

if Republicans try and use that argument. All that Democrats will have to do is point to Prop 187.

[Flubadubya]

14. You're right...

and this was probably the purpose of the entire charade. Surely, BushCo. must have known this nomination would go down in flames. It must certainly have been put up to create a very large wedge issue that the Rethugs could cram down Dems' throats during the height of the campaign. Interesting this occurs just when the 2004 campaign is officially launched.

Creepin' jackbooted dregs of society... (oh, I'm referring to Republicans in case you didn't know).

[UTUSN]

15. Yes, It's the Racist Conundrum

Voting Hispanics ain't that dumb, know SELL-OUTS when they see'em.

But the wingnuts are tied up in knots: They picked somebody based on RACE, then accuse the opposition of being racist for rejecting him on IDEOLOGICAL grounds. Hahaha. They are fools to stand in front of Hispanics and do the Orrin HATCH-righteous thing when HISPANICS were against the dude. Hahahahaha.

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[otohara]

17. Fox Link

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96395,00.html

[otohara]

18. Yahoo Link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=1&u=/nm/20030904/pl_nm/congress_judges_estrada_dc

[BiggJawn]

19. Pop the Cork!

Let's get Matcom to break out the champaigne in the lounge!

[arwalden]

21. "Too Hard On His Family"... Awwww.

What a pity.

-- Allen

[sendero]

26. better his family....

... than the whole country.

[UTUSN]

23. Hmmm, Funny. NOTHING on DRUDGE About It

Perhaps SLUDGE is sleeping in.

[UTUSN]

24. Faux Is Flogging the Story HARD, All Morning

Casting it as lessening "the Latino vote" for the Dems. They are SO blind. They keep appealing to RACISM, that people should vote FOR somebody based on RACE as opposed to IDEOLOGY.

[Mr. Brown of MD]

25. Sheesh, it's about time

How many cloture votes did they have on that filibuster? It was like one a week since the filibuster was first broken out.

This is the kind of relentless pressure we could stand to see more of, at other times and places.

-CollegeDude
Better to pick too many battles than too few...

[LynneSin]

27. Hopefully the Dems will point to the 7-8 OTHER Hispanic judges...

who are still waiting for a floor vote. The other hispanic judges received FULL judicial committee support and yet Frist is slowly taking his time to bring these names to the floor.

This is the real hypocrisy with hispanics. We need to make sure the public is aware of this issue!!!

http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=988449

[Robin Hood]

29. The guy answers no questions, and expected to get the job.

These repugs act more and more like the arostocracy of jolly ol' England. They deserve to be where ever they want to be because they're blue blood Repugs.

It's time for another revolution.

[kskiska]

30. His best friend, Ann Coulter

must be devastated. I remember her on Crossfire telling Paul Begala how once Estrada is confirmed he'll overturn everything that's near and dear to Paul.

[komplex]

31. Typical GOP Bullies...

The only way to stop them is to fight them.

[newyawker99]

34. Hi komplex!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[oc2001]

32. Just Goes to show..

That the Dems CAN WIN!

If they want to.

I'm glad the dems stuck to their guns. They need to be firm with this President. There is no benefit in conceding anything to the conservatives.

The conservatives only care about gaining control of power and weilding it, they have no moral ethics in how they achieve those ends.

The Dems have to fight, fight, fight.

[newyawker99]

35. Hi oc2001!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[spotbird]

33. The Democrats just weren’t going to treat this man like Thomas.

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice… The Republicans honestly thought the high tech lynching maneuver would work again. Once the claim was made that the opposition was about Estrada’s Latino heritage the Democrats were supposed to act the fools they did in the Thomas nomination. It actually surprised me that the Democrats didn’t fall for it again, maybe they did learn something.

[goobergunch]

36. Great!

The score is: Democrats 1, Bush 0.

(all right, so a couple have gotten through that they didn't filibuster)

[thebeaglehaslanded]

37. OK, DUers. Time to email Daschle and thank him for a successful

strategy and to encourage him and all the Dems to continue the filibuster for the other unworthies that Chimpy has annointed to spread their right-wing destruction.