Republicans expect to lose filibuster votes despite 38-plus hours of debat

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Republicans expect to lose filibuster votes despite 38-plus hours of debate with Democrats

JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer Friday, November 14, 2003

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(11-14) 00:33 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

Almost two straight days of debate on President Bush's blocked judicial nominees changed little in a bleary-eyed, groggy-voiced Senate, with Republicans conceding that they can't stop Democrats from successfully blocking two more conservative jurists from the federal appeals court.

"I don't see a way out," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who called for an extra nine hours of debate Thursday night and now is considering suing the Senate to ban judicial filibusters. "Nobody is going to change their votes."



looks like the repukes plans didn't work out like they wanted!!LOL

I feel sooooo badly for the poor Republicans. I mean, they went out of their way to accept all of Clinton's judicial nominees and this is the thanks they get?! ;-)

TAKE THAT, YOU SLIMY F***S.

:nopity:

actually rotted off the bone, and they still continue to beat it.

Cheers
Drifter

What boggles my mind about the whole filabuster is that it demonstrates how incredibly out of touch the Repub Senators are with the rest of the nation.

Apparently, they believed that a highly publicized, well-orchestrated, tightly scripted filabuster would create a public outrage that would generate thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of letters, e-mails and phone calls to force the Democrats to their knees. They obviously thought that the whole world would be watching, rivieted to their TV sets. In truth, NOBODY CARES .

Hatch, Frist and Santorum are so ego-centric that they believe everything they do is "hot stuff" and the nation is waiting with bated-breath for their next pronouncement. It ain't true!

Even better, it was obvious that they were depending on FAUX to create the groundswell. They found out that FAUX isn't as powerful as they thought!

It is my belief that 75% of Faux's ratings are due specifically to onlookers amazed how outrageously rightwing they are. In other words, 75% of the viewership look at Faux like lookie-lous look at a trainwreck.

hard, face to face, letting them know how really small they are.

How they can still be in office can only be seen in their rigged voting.

We need to KICK them out!!!.....permanently!!!!

We need to bear down and get the job done.

:nopity:

Now, where's the beating a dead horse smiley someone put up yesterday?

Simply put.

Maybe you could try negotiation and compromise?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I crack me up sometimes.

Every thirty minutes the Dems got a chance to make their case on TV. 3 million jobs lost since smirk stepped into the White House. 8 million to lose overtime pay. No raise in minimum wage in 7 years.

Then the repubs come on over and over saying there never was a gudge filibusted before. Over and over they refuse to change their tune. They are like a broken record.

he said his office hadn't recorded one call on Judicial nominees until this started. Since the endless debate started, his office was getting calls on it. However, when his office began explaining some of the beliefs of the Judges who were being blocked, many of the callers were saying things like, "Oh, I don't know believe that" or "I am not sure I want to be on the side of that." Thanks Repubs for helping us educate people.

I liked the picture of junior sitting next Hoover's.

exception of one really had their shit together on this one. I'm totally proud of them today. It just goes to show what could be accomplished when they remain unified with a common agenda. Hopefully they will see the success of this strategy and do it a LOT more often.

those slime don't give a sh*t about any americans except themselves.

They just had Senator Kennedy on CNN showing him making a statement after the end of the fillibuster. He said that the democrats were just not going to allow this President of the United States to put NEANDERTHALS on the federal bench.

Hah, hah, hah! You go get 'em Ted. God I love that man!

Hahahha loss of life haha fires haaha flooding hahaha property damage hahaha

The Douchebag guy on Fox & Friends (I was just flipping by) sort of joked about how if you noticed a lot of wind yesterday afternoon....cut to shot of Kennedy speaking yesterday...hahaha

BTW -Kenendy was AWESOME yesterday afternoon. In great detail he spoke about how the advise and concent clause came into being at the Constituional convention and how they never wanted to give one person (the President) that much power and NEVER wanted the Senate to be a rubberstamp. He also added that the FOUNDING FATHERs never set the rules of how the Senate had to operate.

The dems had 200 shirts made that on the front said..

We nominated 98% of Bush's judicial nominees...
with a donkey kicking on the front.


The back said, all we got is this lousy t-shirt...

lol

Very funny.

They knew it was a lost cause, and they went ahead anyway.

:grr:
dbt

by the Repubs afterward?

FAUX was the only station that carried it live. Neither CNN or MSGOP carried the remarks of the repubs live.

I saw him try to badger Harry Reid of NV on the nominations during the marathon and it just didn't work.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Two defeats in a row for Faux News:

1) Their case against Franken gets laughed out of court.
2) Their filibuster sinks like a hot air balloon out of gas.

Poor big babies.

taking out ALL THE CHECKS AND BALANCES?!?!?!

This will piffle like Newt's little stunts. Poor
babies. Good on the good guys. Ted Kennedy for
President.

Which is why he was supposed to be with Senator
Wellstone that horrible night.

Sorry, bigtime buzzkill.
Good news about the failed GOP tactics.

This will go down as a hard-fought win for Democrats.

Maybe the experience will re-acquaint them with their spines and balls.

It was only the dumbest 38 hours ever wasted on the floor of the United States Senate.

:shrug:

But, the Repubs have to keep the fundies on their side, or they might stay home come Election Day 2004, & then it's bye-bye to Boy George & his posse of greedy ideologues.