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housewolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 01:28 AM
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Conservative Groups Say Senators Sold Out GOP
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Several furious conservative activists accused Republican senators who supported the compromise of selling out Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn), saying they wanted nothing short of guaranteed up-or-down votes on every judicial nominee.

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"Unfortunately, 14 senators are allowed to speak for all of America, and they're able to pick and choose the nominees they find acceptable," said Lanier Swann, director of government relations for Concerned Women for America. She predicted that senators would face political fallout from both sides of the issue. (NOTE: this is the woman who was on NOW last Friday and on Washington Journal Monday am)

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Of the seven Republicans who signed the compromise agreement, Sheldon said: "They didn't have the backbone and the fortitude to stand up for the fact that we are the majority."

James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, which had been lobbying GOP senators to hold firm, expressed his "disappointment, outrage and sense of abandonment."

Come election day, he said, "voters will remember both Democrats and Republicans who betrayed their trust."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-react24may24,0,69327.story?coll=la-home-headlines


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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-05 01:37 AM
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1. If they think 14 senators speak for all of America.
They either still don't get it or they are lying. It's usually the later.
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