‘That Was Then, This Is Now' Colors Senate Debate On Filibusters, Judges

[sellitman]

Read the article first....then vote.


By DAVID ESPO
The Day, New London CT.
Published on 5/4/2005

Washington — Time was, Republicans buried Bill Clinton's judicial picks by the dozen in the Senate Judiciary Committee and Democrats indignantly demanded a yes-or-no vote for each.

That was then.

This is now, when Democrats block a far smaller number of President Bush's court nominees — and Republicans heatedly insist the Constitution itself requires a vote.

“Give them a vote. A vote up or down,” Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said recently, speaking of seven appeals court nominees Democrats have vowed to block. “That's what we've always done for 214 years before this president became president.”

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Ok....after reading this article are the Dem's and Repugs equal in their hypocrisy or does one side hold a distinct advantage?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Dems might've bitched, but we didn't change the rules.

[wisteria]

2. I agree! n/t

[sellitman]

4. They haven't done so yet.

But I would put nothing past them.


Nothing.

[Atman]

3. This is actually what Bush would call "leveling the playing field."

Bush is always talking about "leveling the playing field for everybody." But to Bush and his billionaire ilk, a level playing field merely means removing all the rules. It makes sense to them...if we're all similarly unencumbered by the artificial restraints of bureaucracy, we all have the same chance. But they never seem to advocate actually leveling the playing field...by, like, splitting up all the stuff evenly and starting from square one for everybody. Like a whole new game of Monopoly. Fresh start for everybody, and you could just as easily wind up on Baltic as on the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport.

Oh, and they forget that among 300,000,000 anything, it is only natural that some of the lot will not, shall we say, pass Q.C. (sorry for being cold; just trying to put in a business term in case some lurking Republican was about to doze off).

But that isn't the "level playing field" of which Bush speaks. He's talking about removing all the restrictions, and even laws when necessary, before the opening whistle blows. So, I'm still a poor schmuck, he's got eleventy-gazillion dollars...GO!

This is the same thing. They're cry-baby spoilsports who, when the rules underneath the box-top are read to them, fling the entire board in the air and say "FUCK YOU GUYS ANYWAY! YOU CHEAT!"

They're pathological, I tell you. There is something wrong with the wiring of the Republican brain.