Filibuster Fight a Crucial Test of Frist's Leadership

[NVMojo]

A glimpse at what the other side is saying:

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If Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist hopes to capture the Republican nomination for president in 2008, then he has to see to it that the Bush judicial nominees are confirmed. If he fails, then he is dead as a presidential wannabe. This is a critical test of leadership that Sen. Frist simply has to pass if his ambitions are to have any chance of realization.

No issue is as important to conservatives as the battle to return the federal bench to something like its appropriate role under the Constitution. Conservatives are fed up with winning issue after issue at the ballot box, in the Congress, and in state legislatures, only to see arrogant federal judges overrule the popular will and impose their own progressive political preferences on the law. From reasonable limits on abortion, to same-sex marriage, striking God from the Pledge of Allegiance and a score of other issues, the courts consistently show utter contempt for the people's will as expressed through their elected representatives. Conservatives want to see a return to a genuine separation of powers among three co-equal branches of government -- and some degree of humility and respect for representative democracy in a federal republic restored among an oligarchic judiciary that today acts de facto as the superior branch.

All across America one hears the same refrain from grassroots conservatives: If we cannot get qualified, constitutionalist judges confirmed with a conservative president in the White House and 55 Republicans in the Senate, then what's the point? Why bother working hard to elect Republicans? If we cannot succeed now, we never will.

The stakes are very high, as are the expectations. Conservatives expect Bill Frist to overcome the Democrats' filibustering tactic and get the Bush nominees confirmed. The Left's strategy has been obvious to all for more than four years: filibustering Bush circuit court nominees is designed to lay the groundwork to block one or all of the putative Bush nominees to the Supreme Court. Or, failing that, to cow the president and Senate Republicans into nominating David Souter-like stealth entities to avoid bruising confirmation battles and threatened filibusters.

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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7114

[ixion]

1. uh, actually it sounds more like cheating than leadership

but hey, what can you expect from a member of the reality-based community.

So that's the framing. It's leadership, rather than underhanded, dishonest legistlation.

I will say this again: the Corporate Media Complex (CMC) is just as responsible for the tragedy imposed by our nation as the leaders of that nation are. They continue to act as enablers of fascism, and I will never respect them again. :grr:

[Journeyman]

4. You should check the source for this tripe, ixion. . .

What take on this idiocy would you expect from Human Events: The National Conservative Weekly?

[ixion]

8. yeah, good point...

however my thesis still stands. ;-)

[NVMojo]

9. That's why I posted this ...the idiots are losing it!!! We must keep

an eye on them!!

[Mr.Green93]

2. Nothing will happen

our Senators have the republican's balls in the lockbox.

[bearfan454]

3. I hope you're right.

I thought it was a close vote so far.

[wallwriter]

5. Yeah, and just like Social Security,

There is an increasing mystery as to whether there is anything in there at all...

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[Sub Atomic]

7. Oh puhlease.....

"...the courts consistently show utter contempt for the people's will as expressed through their elected representatives..."


Since when do Republican elected officials represent the will of the people who voted for them?

Unless those people are the uber-rich, that is.





And have these assholes every pulled their head out long enough to realize that they're not going to be the party in charge forever? Do they not have the foresight to realize that this is going to come back to haunt them?