WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney warned Democrats Friday that he will cast the tie-breaking vote to ban filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees if the Senate deadlocks on the question.
Republicans are moving the Senate toward a final confrontation with Democrats over judicial nominations. Internal GOP polling shows that most Americans don't support Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's plan to ban judicial filibusters - a tactic in which opponents can prevent a vote on a nomination with just 41 votes in the 100-member Senate.
"There is no justification for allowing the blocking of nominees who are well qualified and broadly supported," Cheney told the Republican National Lawyers Association. "The tactics of the last few years, I believe, are inexcusable."
"Let me emphasize, the decision about how to proceed will be made by the Republican leadership in the Senate," Cheney said. "But if the Senate majority decides to move forward and if the issue is presented to me in my elected office as president of the Senate and presiding officer, I will support bringing those nominations to the floor for an up or down vote."
I say go for it. This plan to eliminate the filibuster is wildly unpopular, and it will only hurt the Republicans. A large marjority of the country simply thinks it's dangerous for this radical faction that has taken control of the Republican Party to have unchecked power in the Senate. So, let Dick Cheney cozy right up to this publicly.
There are only to endings to this. The Republicans will either lose this fight, which would be bad for them, or they will win. Trust me. The wrath of the elctorate will be unleashed on them at the ballot box in 06. I don't think they realize how rapidly the sky is falling.
It's really simple. Normal people are afraid of what this group will do with unchecked power in the Senate. That's right, people are AFRAID.
They are right to be afraid.
James Dobson and the Family Research Council gp so far on their website as to claim that the world is not facing an overpopulation problem, but rather a depopulation problem. Let's look at their proposed solution.
What does this mean for the twenty-first century? For reasons of social and cultural health, national security, and economic growth, it is time to recraft American population policy for a new century and a new reality.
The most important steps are philosophical, in the realm of ideas. The current administration would do the nation a great service by repudiating NSSM #200 as well as the report of the old Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. They should both be labeled as out of date, misleading, irrelevant. In their place, the current administration could articulate new principles on which a twenty-first century American population policy might be built in both the domestic and foreign spheres.
These principles might include:
· The United States of America holds the family to be the fundamental social unit, inscribed in human nature, and centered on the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a covenant of marriage for the purposes of propagating and rearing children, sharing intimacy and resources, and conserving lineage and tradition.
· The United States of America recognizes that strong families commonly rest on religiously grounded morality systems, which deserve autonomy and respect as vital aspects of civil society.
· The United States of America views large families, created responsibly through marriage, as special gifts to their societies deserving affirmation and encouragement.
· The United States of America recognizes that human progress --social, cultural, and economic--depends on the renewal of human population. Moderate population growth is in the nation's best interest.
· And the United States of America underscores that the demographic problem facing the twenty-first century is depopulation, not overpopulation.
The Republican Party has been hijacked by the radical right, who have agreed to allow them to run their scorched earth foreign policy and their corporate cronyism, as long as Dobson and his ilk are allowed to control the social agenda.
Remeber what they tell you: Liberals are waging a war on people of faith, and 2+2=5.
I leave you with a single thought.
If you accept his assumptions, even a madman sounds reasonable."
---Proverb of uncertain origin, possibly Russian
Don't listen to Big Brother. Decide for yourself who the enemy is and revolt by visiting your nearest polling place.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
By the way, if Scott McClelan is supposed to be the voice of Big Brother? If he is, they sure as hell picked a big ole pansy.
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