LOL, GOP Extends 30 hour debate an additional 9 hours

[ShaneGR]

I guess they hadn't embarressed themselves enough already. They want MORE punishment.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/992320.asp?0cv=CB10

[eileen_d]

1. Thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another?

I hope it's painful for them (the repukes). They've caused enough pain.

[ShaneGR]

2. WAH!

You mean we've been talking 30 hours and you won't do what we say yet?

WAH!

[arcane1]

3. Zell Miller needs a good talking-to

“They’re standing in the doorway carrying a sign, which says ‘conservative African-American women need not apply,’” Miller declared, referring to his fellow Democrats.

[CDK_NWIH]

6. Ouch.

That's harsh.

Nobody is putting a gun to black people's heads and forcing them to be liberal. They can be conservative if they like.

[arcane1]

10. apparently Zell is fond of the race card

:grr:

[snippy]

25. Some are conservative, but most vote democratic because of racism.

Until the late 1960's many voted republican. As the racist dixiecrats crossed the aisle and became republicans, the black vote crossed the aisle also.

More blacks would vote republican now if it wasn't the party that supports racist bigots and uses racist campaign ploys like Barbour sucking up to the CCC in Mississippi and the Bush campaign spreading the rumor that McCain had a "nigger daughter."

[ShaneGR]

12. Actually, he used the word "lynching"

Something about the Democrats lynching black conservatives, it was totally ridiculous.

[CDK_NWIH]

16. Though it does look bad

when they spin it; it makes us look like we are holding up a perfectly qualified minority nominee just because she is conservative and not "towing the party line".

Don't laugh... that type of spin works. Not that I'm cynical or anything. . .

[rasputin1952]

19. Case in question...

if these nominees were so good, they would have been with the 196 that have been appointed already.

These nominees are looked at by many different sources, not just the Senate, and these particular three are odious. They do precisely what the GOP screamed about with progressive judges, they MAKE laws with their decisions rather than interpret existant laws. This is intolerable from either side.

:grr: :nuke:

[TacticalPeek]

23. Right. I was so stupid about Bork and Clarence the Clown.

?

[Bandit]

17. No what they are saying is right-wing fanatics need not apply and that

includes you Zell. Hasta La Vista Baby. Don't let the door hit you on your way out. This is one "Democrat" that needs to be gone yesterday.

[CDK_NWIH]

18. Why is he still

a Democrat? Can't he be kicked out of the party? Doesn't it do damage to the party (that he claimes to "love") if he bashes the party from the "inside".

And the media is giving him so much coverage.

[La_Serpiente]

4. They are not going to get anywhere

If our Democrats give up, it's over. We have to win this battle. We haven't won any battles in recent history.

[Brucey]

5. They want to stop Senators from attending the meeting on

9/11.

[rucky]

7. 30 Hours is Nothing

My mom's been browbeating me for 30 Years.

[HFishbine]

9. Well

maybe if you moved out of the basement.

[intheozone]

14. Is that you Jason???

Hahaha, sounded like something my 30-year old would say.

[rucky]

15. Mom, I'm in the basement

got any Cheetos?

[TacticalPeek]

21. Mixing up the medicine?

I'm on the pavement thinkin about the government.

[htuttle]

26. Maybe he's got a bad cough

and he wants to get it paid off?

[Peachhead22]

8. Lets all call 'Pub Senator's...

...from our state, say we're supporters and encourage them to extend it even further. :)

They're just postponing their own agendas. It's like the black sheriff in Blazing Saddles who puts a gun to his own head and says "back off or the ****** gets it."

[Rose Siding]

11. Maybe they'll sneak in a rules change vote?

Anyone with parliamentary saavy know anything about any dangers here?

[ShaneGR]

13. I just thought of something FUNNY

They extended it to 39 hours, because they don't want to go over 40 and have to pay overtime.

HEHE, I made a funny!

[rasputin1952]

20. LOL...very good!

n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

22. Has anybody seen this on the senate democrats' website...

http://democrats.senate.gov/bedtime_story.pdf

[carrowsboy]

24. Freepers want it to go on forever!

LOL< we better watch our backs!


Reply 1 - Posted by: Minalou, 11/13/2003 9:23:49 AM

Just remember you dirty dems and any of the repubs that are doing this..Come your re-election time your sorry butts will be gone if I or any of the other posters have anything to do with it..


Reply 4 - Posted by: Lady Z, 11/13/2003 10:11:03 AM

Okay -- DemoRATS -- make my day........


Reply 5 - Posted by: grandmalizzi, 11/13/2003 10:21:04 AM

Do you think these Democratic senators care that Bush is speaking out? They are probably delighted in the arm wrestling event. They
will try to show how impotent he is against their mighty might. May their backsides break out in boils!


Reply 10 - Posted by: Maybeth, 11/13/2003 11:00:00 AM

I see the President of the United States being OBSTRUCTED by illegal means and by a bunch of leftists in the Senate who are anti-patriotism, anti-military, anti-African-American judges, anti-Hispanic judges, and just plain anti-American.
They are OUTRAGEOUS. They want minorities 'kept in their place' so they can be bullied forever. WAKE UP citizens.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Rocketguy, 11/13/2003 11:27:50 AM

The demos are in a life-or-death struggle here. It has become obvious to anyone capable of rational thought, as well as to the demos, that they cannot get and maintain power anymore through the electoral process alone. They need unelectred, unaccountable judges to enact their ideas, give them power, and silence their opposition. If they can't get the judges they want, they're history. Expect them to continue to use any and all means at their disposal to keep conservative, Federalist judges from being appointed.


Reply 23 - Posted by: twinkle93, 11/13/2003 12:00:57 PM

The Democrats are against diversity of ideas. They are anti-conservative, anti-Catholic, anti-religion, anti-black, anti-female, anti-minority. They are against anyone that does not think exactly as Schumer wants. Schumer defines main stream as how he thinks. The rest of the country is out of touch with Schumer and must be put down.


Reply 25 - Posted by: Halfgenius, 11/13/2003 12:08:50 PM

I hears Frist say on fox news one afternoon that they didn'ty have the votes because of snow, chaffee, ect, they could fall short of the 51 needed votes. It doesn't matter at this point, these judges need to be given the common courtesy of voted up or down on the floor of the senate as tradition and the constitution allows for. The sinful, ginful demokrats are subverting the constituton and the humanity of human kind with their acid treatment of fellow Americans...regardless of stripe! Party before country is just second nature for these scalawags I guess.


Reply 27 - Posted by: natasha, 11/13/2003 12:14:13 PM

Did anyone else notice that that old gas bag and running joke Sen. Byrd holds the record for the 8th longest speech in the Senate? 14 hours plus AGAINST a civil rights bill. Of course, all Byrd cares about is an appropriations bill so he can bring home more pork.

If there is one person in the Senate who exemplifies all that is wrong with a "career in politics" it is most certainly he.


Reply 28 - Posted by: booshkindoggin, 11/13/2003 12:14:28 PM

The argument of Backstroke Ted Kennedy & other Dems that these talks are keeping the Senate from more important issues, will impress no one but their most rabid partisan supporters. Although I question whether any progress will come of this, there is no way the Dems can Clintonize their obstructionism to make it appear the GOP's fault.


Reply 46 - Postd by: Aitch748, 11/13/2003 1:31:34 PM

And if any Senator refuses to vote to affirm the Constitution -- that which all Senators swear an oath to affirm, if I'm not mistaken -- can't e somehow get that Senator IMPEACHED? Can't we do SOMETHING about that Senator, rather than wait for the next election and hope against hope that the voters are actually annoyed with the Senator for violating his oath?


Reply 49 - Posted by: god of irony, 11/13/2003 1:51:59 PM

If I were in charge of the RNC I would run tv adds that show a picture of Sen Byrd in his KKK days. Then I would have an anouncer say "The senior democrat in the Senate is Senator Byrd. Byrd who was once part of the KKK once fillibustered for 14 hours AGAINST the Civil Rights Act. Now he and his fellow democratic senators are fillibustering qualified latinos blacks and women they don't want as judges. End the democratic prejudice and vote Republican in 2004"



Reply 55 - Posted by: Father of Internet, 11/13/2003 3:49:52 PM

The Democrats will just use the tactic of their Congressional Black Circus and vote present instead of AYE.


Reply 66 - Posted by: Allegra, 11/13/2003 5:26:04 PM

I have a question...can someone reach into my email? All of my outgoing email since March is GONE! Anyone?


Reply 72 - Posted by: MsFalconersCabanaBoy, 11/13/2003 5:43:29 PM

This is nothing more than a naked act of obstruction being committed by a group of hyperpartisan leftist ideologues so frightened of losing their grip on the judiciary that they won't even allow their colleagues to cast a vote.


Reply 79 - Posted by: Allegra, 11/13/2003 6:29:19 PM

The fact is, the senate's role is to ADVISE and then CONSENT. It's not to OBSTRUCT. The GOP felt Clinton was entitled to his nomineeds. The Democrats clearly cannot bring themselves to give up control. It's just wrong.