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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Blocking Democratic judicial nominations officially declared:
"Youthful Indiscretions".
Today President Dim Son declared that blocking Presidential Judicial nominees just isn't fair. At least not now. Oh hell, let him explain, as best he can:
President Bush, his appeals court nomination of Miguel Estrada mired in party politics, called Tuesday for a ban on judicial filibusters and a mandatory vote on all court nominations he and future presidents send to the Senate.
In a letter read on the Senate floor by Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, Bush called for a permanent rule "to ensure timely up or down votes on judicial nominations both now and in the future, no matter who is president or which party controls the Senate. This is the only way to ensure our judiciary works and that good people remain willing to be nominated to the federal bench."
[snip...]
But Democrats said GOP senators have blocked Democratic judicial nominees from getting confirmation votes in the Senate as well.
"Because that precedent stands in the way of their political ends, Republicans now seek to deny their own words and their own actions," said Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota. "They're here today to claim that the Constitution is threatened by the very same procedures that they themselves have employed. They're here today to claim the Constitution is going to be threatened by the very same powers that it grants."
But Bush called on the Senate to get beyond the past. "I ask senators of both parties to come together and end the escalating cycle of blame and bitterness and to restore fairness, predictability and dignity to the process," Bush said in the letter.
Of course, Bush could always nominate some of Clinton's appointees again, to make up for what happened between 1992-2000. He'll probably get to that right after his swearing in at Mensa. So in the meantime, just file Republican judicial obstructionism in the "Youthful Indiscretions" folder along with cocaine usage, infidelity, DUI's, selling technology and weapons to the enemy, and insider trading. It's that folder right there...the big thick one.....
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