Ted Kennedy on the vote to confirm Priscilla Owen

[paineinthearse]

http://kennedy.senate.gov/index_high.html

May 25, 2005

KENNEDY ON NOMINATION OF PRISCILLA OWEN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Laura Capps/Melissa Wagoner [phone]
Statement by Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the nomination of Priscilla Owen:

"When there are so many qualified Republican attorneys and judges in the Fifth Circuit why would the President choose one whose conservative colleagues on the Texas Supreme Court repeatedly criticize for distorting the law and who the Houston Chronicle says is "less interested in impartially interpreting the law than in pushing an agenda?" Why choose someone who President Bush's own Attorney General has said -- on at least ten occasions -- has taken an excessively activist approach to the law?"

[sarcasmo]

1. Why MR Kennedy, because she pushes cuckoo-bananas agenda.,

[Boo Boo]

2. Uh... Because the President is an asshole?

:shrug:

[melissinha]

3. Cause he has some favors to pay back

oh yeah, and he's an asshole.

[dbonds]

4. Because it would force the dems to filibuster and Frist could use the nuke

option. Then the supreme court could be packed.

[getmeouttahere]

5. The Supreme Court will be packed anyway!

Do you think these repukes are going to let a little compromise get in the way of their agenda? The only chance we have to stop them is if the sensible repukes stand up and say no. How likely is that?

[dbonds]

7. Your right that it is still their agenda.

And they won't give up. My point was, that was why she was nominated. To force that sitatuion. That plan got derailed. They will try again.

[stellanoir]

6. 'cause she's packing some phenomenally

damaging info 'bout Enron and the misadministration's complicity to Lay's crimes.

[paineinthearse]

8. If true, she would have to recuse herself

If she did preside over an appeal, the case would be appealed to the SJC and remanded for a retrial.

[stellanoir]

10. technically you are right

ethically under this misadministration, anything goes if you hadn't noticed.

[paineinthearse]

9. Does anyone have any kind words for the leadership displayed by EMK?

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1804618#1811776

[paineinthearse]

11. DU response is underwhelming

After all the work this man has done, fewer than a dozen replies in almost 24 hours.

The Kerry thread has >100 responses (granted, many are not related to the filibuster event).

[realFedUp]

12. because the Bushies think they are the best for the job

...of always going along with the conservative corporate
agenda.