Frist on C-span fumbling on about prospect of Democratic fillibuster

[bigtree]

Why should we care? ANY confrontation will elevate our argument and put the GOP on the defensive.

Nuclear option? Bring it on!!!

[Proud_Lefty]

1. He sounds paranoid

What a jerk! I can't believe he's a majority leader.

[patrice]

2. Alito will exacerbate the already dangerous problems we have

with "Criminal Justice" and prisons in this country. There is no un-doing that kind of damage, it only breeds more of the same, until it reaches Critical Mass, and we have a Race War or other Violence.

Alito is the Prosecutors' Prosecutor; he will make everything that is wrong now Much Worse.

I support the Nuclear Option.

[The Witch]

3. Frist sure loves quoting that "liberal media"

pretty funny how he thinks all these quotes of theirs are so damning.

[Loonman]

4. Nobody has even thought about the possibility of one

Is Frist a paranoid reactionary whacko?

[Mist]

5. Thanks for the heads up

He seems uncertain and rambling--I suppose that's good?

[Moochy]

6. Frist wants a guarantee

"Refusing to rule out the filibuster before hearings"

"(Alito) Deserves a vote" What about Meiers?

"I don't think it's going to come to a filibuster,"... only replying because of what was said on TV - Frist

Now he's saying he doesnt want to posture, after posturing for 10+ minutes... :eyes:

Frist continues to address Byrd.
"... where for 214 years, for judicial nominees coming from the executive branch, from the president, coming here, The tool of a filibuster being used routinely, ten times, ten times in the last 3 years, where for the past 214 years before that,
Rare Rare Rare Rare. .... if the Democrats choose to filibuster, obstruct the American people's business, If your side, the other side pulls that sheath out, I'll use all the tools that I have, to simply get the candidate an up and down vote on the floor of the senate" (sloppily transcribed)

[The Witch]

7. "i am completely confident." Then why are you talking about it? (0.o)

:eyes:

WHOA.

He just said for 214 it was "RARE. RARE. RARE. RARE."

I thought it was unprecedented because it'd NEVER been done before!

you idiot.

[The Witch]

8. Byrd: "I don't think it's gonna happen but if it does, we should be able."

"Because that's the kind of situation it'd be."

"The constitutional option? There's nothing constitutional about it!"

Oh, the drama. I lurve it so.