Reply #13: to be 'fair'... [View All]

The Repub position is that the nominees were voted out of the Judiciary
Committee and 'deserve' a full up-or-down vote. That the filibuster is
traditionally NOT used in this circumstance and it 'poisons' the camraderie
of the Senate (because it makes it so that ANY minority beef can be
filibustered into oblivion...the so-called 'tyranny of the 60' because you
need 60 votes to break a filibuster).

Hell, I agree with the GOP on this in general principles. However,
f*ck THEM. They spent EIGHT YEARS preventing decent, centrist
jurists from ever getting out of Committee! They're ONLY real
argument is "we never did this to you...filibustered someone who
was already approved by the judiciary committee". In reality, what
they did was far worse; they kept nominees from seeing the light
of day simply because they were Clinton nominees and not far-
right ideologues.

Look at the list of Clinton nominees. Every one of them was a
good deal for America. All were approved by the ABA, every single
one was a levelheaded, professional jurist with experience. And
they prevented them from coming up for a vote simply because
they could and they wanted to wait for the next Repuke to come
along so they could stack the court. Then look at the GOP nominees.
Hell, some have NEVER SAT AS A JURIST! Some are basically lobbyists
with a JD. They have NO temprament to sit on a court (any more than
a religious nutjob like Moore does).

Again, f*ck THEM. Bush LOST the election. The GOP may hold all
the cards, and make all the 'rules', but that's simply a reflection of
our 'winner take all' system (which protrudes into Senate Rules),
NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE A BONA FIDE MANDATE TO STACK THE
COURTS *FOREVER* WITH FAR-RIGHT FASCISTS (don't believe me?
look at Owen's jurisprudence).

Sure, I agree with Santorum; it's not 'nice' for the Democrats to
pull these 'tricks' because they can or because they want 'payback'
for Clinton. In principle that's true. But this STARTED with the GOP
and like the dog-f*cker says, he can't WAIT to do 'the same' to the
Democrats with they hold power again.

Lessee, Little Ricky...you did it to Clinton, we SHOULDN'T do it
to Bush (despite approving 168 of 172 judges)...and you're going
to do it 'again' for the next Democratic prez? Sounds like you
'win' 3 times to our NONE. Sound fair? Yeah, maybe to you and
your perpetual deck stackers. You stack the election deck thru
the felonious 5, redistricting, recalls. You stack business thru
the K-street Project, Halliburton in Iraq, Enron. All you do is
cheat to get what you want, and you whine like a little infant
when you don't get EVERYTHING your way? Well then, start
the civility; STOP acting like you have 95 Senators and 400
Congressman, running roughshod over about 49.9% of the
American People who are Democrats and we won't have to
resort to these 'tactics' to prevent you shoving things down
the throats of us all when you DON'T have the will of the people!
Get 75% of the vote and do what you want! Until then, screw off
and get back to work doing the people's business instead of
this 40 hour campaign rally for your hard-right base. It won't
fly and I hope to Gawd those 4 keep their day jobs.

Bigby