The Three Stooges Shut Down the Senate
When asked to comment on Thomas as a possible replacement for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Reid told NBC's "Meet the Press": "I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court.
"I think that his opinions are poorly written. I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice."
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"The paranoid spokesman," Hofstadter wrote, "sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms -- he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization." Because his opponents are so evil, the conspiracy monger is never content with anything but their total destruction."
Brooks summarizes: "So some Democrats were not content with Libby's indictment, but had to stretch, distort and exaggerate. The tragic thing is that at the exact moment when the Republican Party is staggering under the weight of its own mistakes, the Democratic Party's loudest voices are in the grip of passions that render them untrustworthy." clip from
Brooks summarizes: "So some Democrats were not content with Libby's indictment, but had to stretch, distort and exaggerate. The tragic thing is that at the exact moment when the Republican Party is staggering under the weight of its own mistakes, the Democratic Party's loudest voices are in the grip of passions that render them untrustworthy." clip from
New York Times' editorial by David Brooks:
posted by Michele @ 9:39 AM
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The "shut down" of the senate is an actual legitimate process, like it or not. What is not legitimate, though, is changing the rules regarding the filibuster, as the republicans are prepring to do. We'll see if there is an equal cry of outrage when that happens. I doubt it. What I expect are cries of how the Dems don't "play fair", and how the poor Republicans simply HAD to do it to cram their policies through. el_mooser, I look forward to your patented double standards.
LOL
What are we "prepring" to do? LOL
Calm down, it's going to be a long ride..............
Oh the games the Left play now
every night and every day now
strength in numbers
do the math
Strength in numbers, indeed:
Bush's Popularity Reaches New Low
58 Percent in Poll Question His Integrity
By Richard Morin and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, November 4, 2005
For the first time in his presidency a majority of Americans question the integrity of President Bush, and growing doubts about his leadership have left him with record negative ratings on the economy, Iraq and even the war on terrorism, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows.
On almost every key measure of presidential character and performance, the survey found that Bush has never been less popular with the American people. Currently 39 percent approve of the job he is doing as president, while 60 percent disapprove of his performance in office -- the highest level of disapproval ever recorded for Bush in Post-ABC polls.
Well, Maddie - as I'm sure you're aware, Thomas is the most activist justice - he votes to overturn the actions of Congress more than any other justice - now, you did know that, n'est pas?
Or is the truth too much for you to take?
If you want originalist justices, how about a few that take Congress' actions seriously - after all, they're the representatives of the people - you remember them, I hope.
Steven Lacey is a regular voter whose plan for Election Day next Tuesday was to walk a few blocks from his Belltown apartment building and cast his vote, as usual, at his local precinct. At least, that was his plan until he received a letter last night informing him that his right to vote had been challenged by a woman from the east side named Lori D. Sotelo.
The letter reported that Sotelo had declared to King County election officials, “under penalty of perjury,” that Lacey’s voter registration was not valid because he couldn’t possibly be living at the address he was claiming. “Which is insane,” Lacey said. The 35-year-old insurance company account manager lives at the Watermark, a 60-unit downtown apartment building built in 1908. However, Sotelo appeared to believe the Watermark was a storage unit, a P.O. box, or some other location that Lacey could not legally be using as an address of record.
Furious, Lacey did a quick web search and realized that Sotelo was a leader in the King County Republican Party. He couldn’t understand how she came to think he was illegally registered, since the Watermark, Lacey said, “couldn’t more clearly be a physical residence.” He left Sotelo a phone message telling her as much, but he never heard back.
Then he asked around, and found that many people in his building had received the same letter, informing them that their votes would not be counted until they proved, at a hearing or through a signed affidavit, that they were legally registered.
“A lot of the people that live in the building are over 50 and have voted in dozens of elections and are incredibly pissed,” he said. “Everybody’s pretty pissed.”
It turns out that Lacey and his neighbors were just a few among at least 140 King County voters who were wrongly challenged by Sotelo, who chairs the King County Republican Party’s “Voter Registration Integrity Project.” Sotelo could not be reached for comment on Friday morning, when The Stranger first reported the mistakes on our blog, but Chris Vance, chairman of the state Republican Party later confirmed for The Stranger that a serious mistake had been made.
“We are withdrawing those challenges today and apologizing to those folks,” he said. He added that it is “just coincidence” that a significant number of the wrongly challenged voters live in a strongly Democratic neighborhood.
Nice people, those Republicans - I guess they're scared ot the People.
Mooser, are you saying that this event didn't happen, that it doesn't matter, or something else? How aout all the people in Florida in 2000 that were "scrubed" from the voter lists? A recount would not have been necessary if these heavily Democratic registered voters were actually allowed to vote. Gore would have won easily. This DID happen. Now, are you saying that you don't care, or that it should be ignored or forgotten? The facts are out there.
votes to overturn the actions of Congress?
explain please lol
Since 1994, when the all the members of the Rehnquist court were all seated, and up until the end of the term last Spring, approximately 100 Acts of Congress were overturned by the Court - I guess that's judicial activism, making law from the bench. Of the 9 Justices, Thomas voted for the most overturns, over 60% of them.
And please save yourself the embarrassment of using the el_mooser AlterWacko name - if you want to have a civil discussion, please answer in a civil fashion.
And some more on denial of voting rights:
Republicans admitted Friday they made numerous mistakes in challenging the registrations of 1,944 King County voters last week.
The party dropped its challenges of 140 voters, and state GOP Chairman Chris Vance said more probably were challenged erroneously.
King County elections officials said they were flooded with hundreds of calls Thursday and Friday from confused and angry voters who had received notices from the county that their registrations had been challenged because of Republicans' questions about their address.
And those challenges were all Sworn challenges - it's perjury to falsely swear, or does that not apply to Republicans?
What's this? Is someone actually trying to point out facts and going against the Republican noise machine? FatBear, you are my new hero. Good luck, though, as facts are easily dismissed in these here parts. One of Mossers counterarguments was that Clinton killed a bunch of people when he was president.
Mooser, your argument regarding Clinton came up in the "Focus on Texas Should Be on..." thread. I've been reading past posts to get a feeling for people's views in here. To remind you, here is what you wrote:
"the funny thing about whitewater is that people were thrown on the sword or outright "died mysteriously", i believe the clintons were and are dirty, and were let off the hook."
Also, the reason this topic still comes up in 2005 is that NOTHING was ever done about it and it likely changed the outcome of the country forever. Combined with the republican-led fight against having paper trails for the electronic voting machines, there is good reason to doubt the integrity and honesty of the political process in this country now.
doesn't fatbear remind you of openmind mooser?
nicely put el mooser!
For some reason they just don't understand; "Global War On Terror"
They have no idea why we are fighting this war.
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