Bush to Senate: "Act promptly, up-or-down vote before end of this year"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"I’m confident that the United States Senate will be impressed by Judge Alito’s distinguished record, his measured judicial temperament and his tremendous personal integrity. And I urge the Senate to act promptly on this important nomination so that an up-or-down vote is held before the end of this year.

Today, Judge Alito is joined by his wife, Martha, who was a law librarian when he first met her. Sam and I both know you can’t go wrong marrying a librarian."

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/2005/10/_bush_good_morn.html

[Loonman]

1. Why not?

Senate Dems have been a bunch of fucking pussies for five years(with the exception of Byrd, Wellstone{RIP}, Kucinich), anyway, what's another couple years?

[swimboy]

2. Harriet Miers didn't get an up-or-down vote.

But then, she wasn't married to a librarian.

[smoogatz]

7. Exactly.

The whole up-or-down vote business has been mooted by the White House itself, which obviously does not feel that ALL of its SC nominees are deserving of that courtesy.

[Todd B]

8. I was watching WJ today..

.. and someone actually had the nerve to say that Bush deserves this nominee because he tried to reach out to the Dems with Miers and she was shot down. Wtf? What planet are these people living on? Just *who* was it that raised such a fuss about Miers.. oh, that's right.. the religious reich, that's who!

Of course, this is the same program that tried to spin Shrub's poll numbers by having callers state that 50% of the country hate Bush anyways, so, if you think about it, being at 30% isn't that bad anyways because it was just Conservatives who were pissed at the Miers nomination.. oh, and they also managed to state that, essentially, those against the Conservatives were somehow the "enemies" in this country.

Yay for spin!

[gratuitous]

3. Nope, "up-or-down vote" is no longer a priority

We've all seen that conservatives insist on an up-or-down vote only when it suits their purposes. Well, President Stupidhead, the Senate plans to take its own sweet time considering this nomination. See, there's that whole separation of powers thing that you and your mouthpieces were spouting about Miss Miers.

[wtmusic]

13. A shot across the bow to preempt the filibuster

which will without a doubt occur

[derby378]

4. He has to appear in control of something...

He can't control the Religious Right, he can't control hurricane relief, so what's left for now?

[nolabels]

17. He doesn't even have control of his own little boy

Scribing notes to his caretakers to go to the potty room does get noticed

[bluedog]

5. won't happen.....

holidays coming up...........if Democrats play their cards right this can be tied up until.Jan or Feb 06

[pdxmom]

6. That up or down vote is nothing but a joke at this point. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. But... but... what about Harriet Miers?

Poor Harriet didn't get an up-or-down vote, and she didn't get it because a bunch of Republicans (who also wanted her to disclose a bunch of paperwork) didn't want her to have one. I didn't think she should have had the job either, but it seems to me that by torpedoing Miers the way they did, they can't very well demand now that this guy is entitled to get an up-or-down vote.

Did I ever mention how much I hate Republicans?

[More Than A Feeling]

10. Slow down, Bush, O'Connor's still there.

Cases are not going unjudged. The Senate can and should explore this nominee thoroughly. Prepare the probe! :evilgrin:

[Skidmore]

11. Doesn't want to have to work over the Holidays.

Well, they showed him who's boss. Didn't they? Thought I'd heard that the hearings will be in January. Yup, the swagger is gone.

[tularetom]

12. I don't understand this at all

Was Miers a big fakeout from the gitgo to make the next choice seem acceptable by comparison? I know bush is naive enough to think he could get away with this but do the people around him believe the American people are dumb enough to fall for it? OMFG, are we that dumb?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Bush picked Miers because:

1. He's a completely isolated idiot, and
2. He likes people who kiss his ass, and
3. He considers anybody who'll kiss his ass to be qualified for anything, and
4. Karl Rove was too busy worrying about, um, other things to straighten him out.

[mzteris]

15. trying to get him on there before

bushco is toast!

[Ilsa]

16. I already hate this guy after hearing about his opinion on spousal

notification. Shit. What a neanderthal.

[Drifter]

18. Bullshit ...

Perma-Filabuster

No more nominees for bush, until we know the fall out of any impeachment proceedings. You know that Republicans would do the same.

This corrupt administration has run wreckless over our country, and it needs to be nuetered.

Cheers
Drifter

[zbdent]

19. "marrying a librarian"? I thought he "married a teacher" - wasn't that th

the bone he threw at the teachers' heads? That he "married a teacher"? Yes, she was a librarian - but the key seemed to be "I love teachers; I married one."

No, he loves fucking the teachers over a barrel. I would think that a library is too much of a socialist concept for Repukes.

[SillyGoose]

20. So now an up or down vote is important? It didn't seem to matter

when Miers was the nominee. What a hypocrite.