OMG! They actually believe it

[ck4829]

The RW'ers actually believe that Republicans never used the filibuster during Clinton's term when in reality the very same groups, such as Focus on the Family, which are attacking the filibuster today commended Republicans who used it then.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22republicans+never+filibustered%22&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N

[Individualist]

1. Cultists believe everything they're told

by the cabal.

[Zeke]

7. Homerun...

Pefect answer.
It's like reading the words of a young...me.

Yes, the GOP is the the party
of come drink the Kool-Aid.

[ComerPerro]

14. No way. Yung Mi was a hack compared to this guy!

[Individualist]

19. What guy?

Did I miss something?

[tjwash]

10. Yeah. They also believe that Sadaam had nuke-yoo-lar missiles...

...pointed right at us, and that our brave aryan supersoldiers broke in and captured him just as his finger was starting to press the launch button.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Don't forget

that he also had a hand in 9/11. :eyes:

[arwalden]

24. Hey Republicans! There's A Spaceship Behind The Hale-Bopp Comet...

They are here to take you away.

[Avalux]

2. Of course they do -

you don't actually expect them to THINK do you, or even admit they are wrong when presented with evidence? They should be required to have the word "vacant" tatooed on their foreheads.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. They didn't HAVE to filibuster

They didn't let the Clinton nominations even out of COMMITTEE! So when they say that, counter by asking them how many Clinton nominees got the "up or down vote" that they're demanding

[Dhalgren]

4. These people are vicious, pathological liars.

They are cruel and heartless fascists. If these people are "Christians", then the term has no valid meaning, at all.

[Cash]

5. They didn't use the filibuster.

The nominees never got out of committee. That's not a filibuster.

Edit: Just noticed that the poster of comment #3 said the same thing.

[Oilwellian]

8. Excuse me, but they did filibuster...

The Senate yesterday overrode objections from conservative Republicans and confirmed Derek Shearer as ambassador to Finland, but it failed by six votes to break a GOP-led filibuster against the ambassadorial nomination of onetime anti-Vietnam War activist Sam Brown.

Another bid will be made today to break the filibuster against Brown, who was nominated to ambassadorial rank as head of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), an organization that promotes security and human rights.

Or this:

Taking aim at a longtime opponent, Senator Jesse Helms today tried to block the nomination of Walter E. Dellinger 3d to a senior Justice Department position.

Mr. Helms tied up the Senate for much of the day in a filibuster that he began Wednesday evening over the nomination of Mr. Dellinger to become Assistant Attorney General for the office of legal counsel. A vote to break the filibuster narrowly failed, and Senate Democrats said they would try again next week for a final vote.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/3/1/225030/0020

[Cash]

12. Clarification.

I was thinking about how they never used the filibuster to stop a floor vote on circuit judge noiminees. Both sides obviously use the filibuster. But the talk I've heard, which I might have falsely beleived the original poster was referencing, was that neither party has ever used the filibuster to stop an up or down vote for circuit judges, which is true.

Vash the Stampede said, "They didn't HAVE to filibuster. They didn't let the Clinton nominations even out of COMMITTEE!," to which I concur.

[alfredo]

6. They know the truth but they are lying to further God's agenda

so that makes it alright.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

9. Reality is not real big with these people. n/t

[Hamlette]

11. but, as I remember, the GOP didn't use the filibuster for judicial nominee

did they?

what did they use it for?

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

13. Abe Fortas

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/opinion/11448386.htm

"Democrats have used filibusters to block some of President Bush's most troubling judicial nominees, just as Republicans did when it was the minority party confronted with a nomination they didn't like, one of the most famous being Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortes move to head the high court."

More info: http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Filibuster_Derails_Supreme_Court_Appointment.htm

Edit: Spelling and additional site added.

[Hamlette]

15. not to put too fine a point on it

but I thought we were talking Clinton. Fortes was a LBJ nominee.

[Beaverhausen]

18. go here

http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RS20801.pdf

toward the end it documents the filibusters used against Clinton nominees.

[Hamlette]

21. I guess I wasn't clear. . .

it is my understanding that the GOP never sucessfully filibustered a Clinton judicial nominee.

The GOP is carefully crafting its arguments against filibuster saying "it has never been used to block a judicial nominee."

This thread seemed to imply that the GOP had used the filibuster to block Clinton judicial nominees.

My point was merely that the GOP is TECHNICALLY correct...if they mean Clinton judicial nominees.

It is a dishonest argument since we all know the GOP blocked 60 Clinton nominees through other means, including the blue slip rule that changed when W was elected.

[Scottie72]

16. The filiabuster is greatly needed

You know we may complain but hey it is just the world of politics! It is to give the minority some say so the majority cannot just roll over everyone.

If the majority ruled our country would still have slavery, women would be barefoot and in the kitchen all day.. etc....

The filabuster is needed so either side cannot nominate extreme judges. It is all part of politics.

[Malva Zebrina]

17. Right and they still believe that Saddam had WMD that were

shipped out to Syria and that is why no one found them and they still believe that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the US and that Iraq harbored Al Quaida or that SH was responsible for 9-11

Dear heavens--we are a country that has those who voted for this imbecile and gave him a second term, voted for this incomepetant little rich boy, frat boy, wannabe a cow boy, who cannot string a coherant sentence together in spite of his earpiece connected to some shill who prompts him the answers, and whose wife is a wax Madame Tussad model permanently pasted with a joker smile, and whose daughters willfully break the law and show their ass and their designer thongs to anyone who happens to be looking, that are simply just plain dumb and ignorant.

He and they are a shameful bunch of immoral dolts and they are destroying our country with their greed.

[MontageOfFreedom]

20. There is no agenda for god.

The agenda they have made up for god, claimed to speak for god, tried to be "like" god is all fake and not worth the paper its written on.

These people are puppet show masters, nothing more. Abhored and forlorned fascist sympathizers. They do not and have never spoken for god.

It's also obvious the agenda proposed here, is clearly not for god. The events in our world of proof of that.

[FreedomAngel82]

22. Is there any video's

to prove it? So they believe Bill Frist and these little groups but they won't check facts themselves? :banghead:

[Disturbed]

25. The Cold Civil War is raging...

If the Bush Junta and their minions of the Cult keep pushing it may yet go from cold to hot!

Most of the Dem Party is still comotose, comlicit &/or spineless. Will this party stand up to the Fascists or lay down and be rolled over?