HunterByrd

"To replay this narrow and completed debate demonstrates the Bush administration's failure to craft a positive agenda for the American people," [Senate Minority Leader Harry] Reid said yesterday after the renominations were announced.

Reid is just a Senator who was elected to his position after the fact. The debate was never completed. That would have happened ONLY had the nominations been placed on the Senate floor for an up-or-down vote. No, the issue is not Bush's 'positive agenda', it is the Dem's obstructionism. You think we can't see that?

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat and member of the Judiciary Committee, said, "The president looks like he is still more interested in picking fights than in picking judges."

Mr Kennedy, is the epitome of the pot calling the kettle black. His public existence has been reduced to obstructionism. He has offered nothing substantive in the way of a bridge-solution concerning this impasse. Golly, someone research what happened when FDR packed the court and changed America in the 30's please.

"The nuclear option (i.e., changing the Senate rules of procedure) is aptly named because it will blow up the Senate," said Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. "We don't know if Senator Frist has 51 'yes' votes, but it would be a tragedy for the Senate and for the country if he does. It would reverse almost 200 years of history and dramatically change what the Senate has always been."

You spell the rest of "b.s."

Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and member of the Judiciary Committee, said that for 200 years, judges have passed on a straight majority vote, by which all of the filibustered nominees would be confirmed.

"It would make no sense to require Republicans to be elected by a 60 percent vote, while only requiring 51 percent of Democrats," he said. "The Senate should reject the double standard that Democrats have created for confirming President Bush's nominees and restore our constitutional and traditional standards."

Cut to the chase! We re-elected W, and put four more Republicans in the Senate. Give us an up-or-down vote on these nominees, and choke the obstructing whine.

Quotes from this Charles Hurt WaPo article.

// posted by HunterByrd @ 6:06 PM