Republicans blocks Bush nominee

[La_Serpiente]

In twist, GOP blocks Bush nominee

The Senate is blocking another of President Bush’s judicial nominees — but this time it’s Republicans and not Democrats playing the role of obstructionists.

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) last week sought unanimous consent to take up the nomination of Leon Holmes to a seat on the U.S. District Court in Arkansas.

Pryor made the request after the Judiciary Committee reported Holmes’s nomination without recommendation on a party-line vote, meaning the panel took no position on whether he should be confirmed by the full Senate.

But at least four centrist Republicans expressed doubts about Holmes, based on statements culled from some of his writings. The four are Arlen Specter (Pa.), Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (Maine), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas).

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http://www.thehill.com/news/111903/nominee.aspx

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Hutchinson? I thought she was a rightie also???

[Spazito]

1. Geez, this nominee must be one pug-ugly person for Hutchinson...

to say nay!

[loyalsister]

3. From my NARAL mailing...

It's impossible to overstate how far outside the mainstream James Leon Holmes is. He has compared pro-choice advocates to Nazis. He has written that the proper role of "...the wife is to subordinate herself to her husband." He has even suggested that women can't get pregnant from being raped.
"...the wife is to subordinate herself to her husband." I imagine this was where he lost Hutchinson.

[Spazito]

12. Thanks for posting this!

Yikes, I can see why even Hutchinson would be loathe to support this.

[maggiemay]

2. ha ha ha ha ha!

Obstructionists! All of them! No rubber stamp?!?!? Unthinkable!!

[NewJerseyDem]

4. Hutchison is pro-choice

She supports abortion rights with restrictions. Also, she is a woman. This is the guy that has said things about how wifes should just serve their husbands. There aren't many women that would like that idea from a judge. He is more extreme than any of the judicial nominees from what I can tell.

Here are some quotes from Holmes:

"concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with the same frequency as snowfall in Miami."

"wife is to subordinate herself to her husband" and "place herself under the authority of the man."

"The abortion issue is the simplest issue this country has faced since slavery was made unconstitutional and it deserves the same response."

http://www.now.org/issues/legislat/nominees/holmes.html?printable

[redqueen]

5. Hutchison

I think she's less right than others.

She voted against the FCC's new rules and there was something else but I can't remember what it was just now...

[trumad]

6. So does this mean another 39 hour debate from the repukes

this time against themselves?

[progressiverealist]

7. and Bush WANTS this freak

that's the scary part

[MoonAndSun]

8. What the hell is Pryor doing nominating this person?

eom

[sujan]

9. was pryor serious

or just trying to make a point?

[dbt]

10. Arkies, maybe it's time Senator Pryor heard from us

Stupid me, I was hoping we'd get a Senator we didn't have to watch all the time. *sigh*

:freak:
dbt

[wryter2000]

11. Third post about republican defections

This is the third post today I've seen about Republican defections from party line -- the energy bill, the medicare bill, and now this. Snowe, Collins, McCain, Sununu, and Specter. Could we be seeing a return to sanity among some of the Republicans? Could they be worried about getting re-elected if they back some of Whistle Asses stoopid ideas?