Ashcroft's resignation rumors=prepping for SCOTUS?

[fortyfeetunder]

I would only feel comfortable about the rumors of Ashcroft's resignation only if it confirms he's not prepping himself to get a Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seat.

Do you think Ashcroft's resignation means he is going to take a long break and do something else, or is he going to spend his newly found time lobbying Congress to vote him in next opportunity?

And at the same time praying for the good health of the Justices.

[eataTREE]

1. Fillibuster.

So help me God, if Assclown even *thinks* about the Supreme Court, I will go to Washington D.C. with a stack of phone books to be read into the record.

I'd rather watch the Senate Dems hold the floor and talk nonstop until 2008 than have that nutcase on the Supreme Court.

[fortyfeetunder]

5. You really think a filibuster is possible?

The Dems better have a strategy to do it or they'll get blown off the face of the floor...

[TaleWgnDg]

12. try this:

http://www.independentjudiciary.org/resources/resourcedoc.cfm?ResourceDocID=253

[fortyfeetunder]

14. 3/5 for breaking filibuster....more questions

Since the balance is 55R 45D....are there any other Democrats that we can't trust to stay on the Dem side.

One I can think of is Zell Miller (D-GA)...anyone know if he and Ashcroft get along?

We might need to plan this now, just in case!!!

[aquart]

2. Someone said Ashcroft was very ill (judgement of the Lord?)

I can only pray that person was inerrant in this matter.

[alittlelark]

3. HE has NO CHANCE - he is a zealot to such a degree

that he will have less than 1/2 the support of congressional repugs.

[fortyfeetunder]

9. -but we thought he wouldn't be appointed AG either

I guess I am a pessimist, but when I saw him getting confirmed as AG, I thought, it this turd wants SCOTUS, he'll probably get it.

[Bleacher Creature]

4. You know what -- let them try!

We can see right off the bat what our Democratic Senators are made of and it will prove once and for all that Bush's pledge to unite the nation is pure unadulterated BS.

[2Design]

8. our dem senators are weak - they voted to give away all our

rights in fear in 2001
then they gave away the war
then they gave away the money

I don't have a lot of faith in any of them

[Bleacher Creature]

10. They were weak in 2001

They may still be weak today -- but it doesn't mean that we can't do everything in our power to hold their feet to the fire. Otherwise, what else do we have??

[TaleWgnDg]

6. John Ashcroft has no chance, repeat NO CHANCE, of

a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court! Not while the Dems have the votes to filibuster http://www.independentjudiciary.org/resources/resourcedoc.cfm?ResourceDocID=253



_{. . . . . . "I always laugh when people say that George W. Bush is saying this or that to appease the religious right. He is the religious right." - GWBush first cousin John Ellis}

[tritsofme]

13. Nuclear Option

I fully expect it after the first fillibuster in 109th Congress.

[incapsulated]

7. Filibuster

It's the only answer to this insane proposition.

[fortyfeetunder]

11. I am not so certain about filibuster--

Why didn't the Dems filibuster the AG appointment? Now that there are less of them in the Senate, what's the likelihood they will have the votes to keep him from running?

[juliagoolia]

15. Has he ever been a judge in his life?

This is not a first time around judge job ya know.

[fortyfeetunder]

16. Experience?

In the Dubya world, who said experience mattered? He's a bud of the President!