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[keithjx]

I LOVE THIS STAT. Amazing.

This is the republican votes on judicial nominees made by Bush. Talk about LOCKSTEP. Only once over 39 nominees did a republican vote against a Bush nominee, and it was Trent Lott against the first black justice on the 5th circuit ct of appeals.

Nutty.
KJ

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Yep

He also said "what goes around comes around." ;) They're biting themselves in the ass. Mr. Carper did great!

[paineinthearse]

2. Who was the "1"?

The summary execution will be at dawn.

Did anyone hear Kerry chiding Lincoln Chafee about expressing surprise that Hagle had gotten out of step? "In my four years in the Senate, I've never seen such a thing!"

:rofl:

Chafee is such a rookie.

During the passage...

To get what they want the leadership has acquiesced to outside forces. John Danforth, a greatly respected former Republican Senator, George Bush’s choice as UN Ambassador, and most importantly a respected minister and leader in his church, wrote: “The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.”

Yet despite Senator Danforth’s warning most of my colleagues stay on script in this fight for history, for principle, for rights. They allow our cherished principles to be abused and glossed over as the debate devolves into a competition of hollow sound-bytes. But script and sound-byte should not dictate what happens here. Not here in the United States Senate. Conscience and principle should dictate what happens here. There must be Senators prepared to stand up and do their duty as Senators of the United States, not Senators of their Party.

This is from "lightupthedarkness" and must be the "official" transcript, because the Chafee reference is not there.

[leftofthedial]

3. I find the "1" utterly unbelievable

I can't believe that a single fascist broke lockstep.

[tridim]

4. It was Lott

and the nominee was originally a CLINTON nominee.

[leftofthedial]

6. so the "1" was just due to stpuidity then

and he paid the price

[moondust]

5. My favorite, too.

Even the Soviet communist politiburo had more freedom than that!

It reveals gangsterism.

[Roland99]

7. For comparison, what were the Democratic votes on Clinton nominees?

[keithjx]

10. That's actually a good question.

I'm no statistician, and if they hadn't done the work for me, I wouldn't know this stat. But that's a fair point.
KJ

[Algorem]

8. lemmings

[AUYellowDog]

9. Fucking Idiot

No where did the founding fathers specify that the supreme court had an odd number. Burr is a fucking idiot.

Brandon