Saturday, May 14, 2005
Our Newst Op Ed
Busting the Filibuster
- By Christian Hartsock
In the debate over President Bush's appeals court nominees, Democrats are kicking and screaming over the possibility that Republicans may seriously use their congressional majority to their advantage, and in so doing force Democrats to play by the rules and actually vote on the nominees.
This Republican threat to eliminate the ability to filibuster judicial nominees (a move known as the "nuclear option"), is of course, in reaction to the Democrats' feverish efforts to filibuster every single one of President Bush's 52 appeals court nominees on the basis that they are unqualified right-wing extremists who have "deeply held beliefs."
As indicated by recent history, Democrats' definition of an "extremist" must denote any religious person who doesn't happen to favor redefining marriage, sanctioning fetal genocide and starving retarded hospital patients to death.
Or, to really understand what all the fuss is about, let's take a brief look at some of the "unqualified" nominees whom Democrats have thus far blocked with the filibuster...........
Click HERE To Read On
- By Christian Hartsock
In the debate over President Bush's appeals court nominees, Democrats are kicking and screaming over the possibility that Republicans may seriously use their congressional majority to their advantage, and in so doing force Democrats to play by the rules and actually vote on the nominees.
This Republican threat to eliminate the ability to filibuster judicial nominees (a move known as the "nuclear option"), is of course, in reaction to the Democrats' feverish efforts to filibuster every single one of President Bush's 52 appeals court nominees on the basis that they are unqualified right-wing extremists who have "deeply held beliefs."
As indicated by recent history, Democrats' definition of an "extremist" must denote any religious person who doesn't happen to favor redefining marriage, sanctioning fetal genocide and starving retarded hospital patients to death.
Or, to really understand what all the fuss is about, let's take a brief look at some of the "unqualified" nominees whom Democrats have thus far blocked with the filibuster...........
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 5/14/2005 02:00:00 PM 
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