Limp Frist
For those of us expecting nothing less than the breaking of the Senate Democrat filibuster against President Bush's appellate court nominees, this is not a good sign.
Wasn't this the same man who, just three weeks ago, was threatening Florida state judge George Greer with jail if he defied congressional subpeonas by refusing to reinstitute the feeding tube of federal deponent Terri Schiavo? The same man who helped move heaven & earth to get a federal de novo review of the facts of the Schiavo case, only to have the federal courts blatantly defy the law Congress passed? This act of judicial lawlessness was a day-glo example of the extraconstitutional oligarchy the Judiciary has become, and why the Dem filibuster must be busted forthwith, and yet now the man in charge of doing that lamely bows & curtsies by obsequiously delivering props to those same judges that they don't remotely merit?
Hard to believe, isn't it? Especially when you go on to read this:
Frist has been gelded, folks. The media-enhanced death cult spooked the Senate's RINOs and they've cut his balls off. If he had the support for "going constitutional," he wouldn't be five-knuckle-shuffling Dirty Harry. Besides which, there's no such thing as a "compromise plan to ensure that Bush's judicial nominees get confirmation votes on the Senate floor." If there was, it would have been agreed upon long before now.
For those who speculate hopefully that Frist is just going through the motions to placate the RINOs as having "done everything else he could" before resorting to the rule change, what is there to make one believe that the "Gang of Six" (McCain, Hagel, Specter, Chaffee, Snowe, Collins) will be any more maleable then than they are now? Wasn't it not too long ago that Frist was saying that he had 51 "yea" votes? What happened between then and now to throw that into doubt? The Terri Schiavo climax, which had nothing to do with "process" and everything to do with cultural schism. And the latter is the primary line of demarcation between RINOs and the GOP mainstream.
The best face I can put on this disheartening development is that the Majority Leader only needs one of the six to sign on to the rule change, and then Vice President Cheney can break the tie, and the Donkibuster along with it. Maybe that will still happen.
But that's an awfully weak reed to lean on when the gutteral viciousness of the DisLoyal Opposition is continually and perpetually met with the same lame, futile attempts at conciliation by an ostensible majority that is either unwilling or unable to wield the power it has earned - and, if it fails to do so in this case, will most likely be forfeiting after the next canvass.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Tuesday that federal judges' rejection of efforts by Congress to keep Terri Schiavo alive will not affect the escalating dispute between Democrats and Republicans over President Bush's judicial nominees.
"I don't associate the two issues directly," Frist told reporters.
Frist, R-TN, declined to join with conservatives who have complained about the federal court system in relation to the Schiavo case. "I believe we have a fair and independent judiciary today," he said.
Wasn't this the same man who, just three weeks ago, was threatening Florida state judge George Greer with jail if he defied congressional subpeonas by refusing to reinstitute the feeding tube of federal deponent Terri Schiavo? The same man who helped move heaven & earth to get a federal de novo review of the facts of the Schiavo case, only to have the federal courts blatantly defy the law Congress passed? This act of judicial lawlessness was a day-glo example of the extraconstitutional oligarchy the Judiciary has become, and why the Dem filibuster must be busted forthwith, and yet now the man in charge of doing that lamely bows & curtsies by obsequiously delivering props to those same judges that they don't remotely merit?
Hard to believe, isn't it? Especially when you go on to read this:
The majority leader also said he would continue to try and compromise with Democrats to develop a plan to ensure that Bush's judicial nominees get confirmation votes on the Senate floor.
Until all negotiations fail, he said, it's too early to discuss whether he has the support needed to ban judicial filibusters, when he might act or which nominee he will ask senators to vote on first.
"All the details are way too premature," said Frist, who talks daily with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV.
Frist has been gelded, folks. The media-enhanced death cult spooked the Senate's RINOs and they've cut his balls off. If he had the support for "going constitutional," he wouldn't be five-knuckle-shuffling Dirty Harry. Besides which, there's no such thing as a "compromise plan to ensure that Bush's judicial nominees get confirmation votes on the Senate floor." If there was, it would have been agreed upon long before now.
For those who speculate hopefully that Frist is just going through the motions to placate the RINOs as having "done everything else he could" before resorting to the rule change, what is there to make one believe that the "Gang of Six" (McCain, Hagel, Specter, Chaffee, Snowe, Collins) will be any more maleable then than they are now? Wasn't it not too long ago that Frist was saying that he had 51 "yea" votes? What happened between then and now to throw that into doubt? The Terri Schiavo climax, which had nothing to do with "process" and everything to do with cultural schism. And the latter is the primary line of demarcation between RINOs and the GOP mainstream.
The best face I can put on this disheartening development is that the Majority Leader only needs one of the six to sign on to the rule change, and then Vice President Cheney can break the tie, and the Donkibuster along with it. Maybe that will still happen.
But that's an awfully weak reed to lean on when the gutteral viciousness of the DisLoyal Opposition is continually and perpetually met with the same lame, futile attempts at conciliation by an ostensible majority that is either unwilling or unable to wield the power it has earned - and, if it fails to do so in this case, will most likely be forfeiting after the next canvass.
posted by JASmius at 12:13 PM
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