Reid: Bush, GOP Seek to Reinvent Reality

Reid: Bush, GOP Seek to Reinvent Reality
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, May 19, 2005



(05-19) 07:47 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --


Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Thursday that President Bush and Republican senators are trying to "rewrite the Constitution and reinvent reality" in their push to confirm controversial judicial nominees.


"The Senate is not a rubber stamp for the executive branch," Reid said. "Rather, we're the one institution where the minority has a voice and the ability to check the power of the majority. Today, in the face of President Bush's power grab, that's more important than ever."


Republicans are threatening to eliminate the Democrats' ability to use filibusters to block Bush's judicial picks, beginning with federal appeals court nominee Priscilla Owen.


Reid says that the Constitution does not require that judicial nominees get confirmation votes, allowing the minority to block them. Bush and other Republicans who argue otherwise "rewrite the Constitution and reinvent reality," he said.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/19/national/w074702D81.DTL


:popcorn:

By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
44 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid accused President Bush Thursday of trying to "rewrite the Constitution and reinvent reality" in a drive to weaken Senate filibuster rules and install out-of-the-mainstream conservatives on the federal bench.
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Reid says that the Constitution does not require that judicial nominees get confirmation votes, allowing the minority to block them. Bush and other Republicans who argue otherwise "rewrite the Constitution and reinvent reality," he said.
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While lower court nominees are at the forefront of the argument, the clear subtext is how the Senate will treat a future Supreme Court nominee.
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"If Republicans roll back our rights in this chamber, there will be no check on their power," Reid said. "The radical right wing will be free to pursue any agenda they want. And not just on judges. Their power will be unchecked on Supreme Court nominees, the president's nominees in general and legislation like Social Security privatization."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20050519/ap_on_go_co/filibuster_fight_72

Yes, pursuing any agenda they want is exactly what the republican fascists are trying to do.

This is also known as establishing a dictatorship.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050519/ap_on_go_co/filibuster_fight

WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid accused President Bush Thursday of trying to "rewrite the Constitution and reinvent reality" in a drive to weaken Senate filibuster rules and install out-of-the-mainstream conservatives on the federal bench.

But the Senate's second-ranking Republican accused Democrats of "unprecedented obstruction" that prevented confirmation votes and upended more than two centuries of tradition.

Reid and Sen. Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record), R-Ky., made their comments on the second day of debate over Bush's stalled nominees and venerable filibuster rules as centrists struggled unsuccessfully for a compromise that could avert a showdown. "I don't know whether we're going to have it in the next hour or not at all, but you have to keep working," said Sen. Ben Nelson (news, bio, voting record), D-Neb., emerging from the closed-door session.

Both parties used staged events off the Senate floor to push racial politics to the forefront.

Restricting the ability of Democrats to block final votes on several of Bush's most controversial nominees "would be particularly offensive to people of color," members of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote Majority Leader Bill Frist during the day. "All of the major legislation that today bars racial discrimination in voting, employment and housing was passed after filibusters" were broken, it said.

see:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704A.shtml

excerpt

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend - but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

why are they afraid of saying that * and his cabal are

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That felt good ;)