Lookee what I found----Do you republicans EVER tell the truth ?

[Justice Is Comin]

Oh I bet you must long for the days when there was no internet and info could stay buried so you'd never have to face the truth.

So it isn't "dignified" to filibuster a judge huh? And the proper thing is every judge shoud be entitled an up or down vote huh ?

Is that only not dignified when we want to keep your religious right brain wackos off the court, or when you do it ?


Do you ever, ever, ever, stop lying ?

Let me introduce you....Mr. Bullshit....say hello to Mr. fact. :popcorn:




Republican Filibusters Of Nominees Reported To The Floor (past 35 years)



# Year Nominee Position Cloture Motions


# 1968 Abe Fortas, Supreme Court 1*

# 1980 William Lubbers, NLRB 3

# 1980 Don Zimmerman, NLRB 3

# 1980 Stephen Breyer, 1st Circuit 2

# 1987 Melissa Wells, Ambassador 1

# 1987 William Verity, Commerce 1

# 1993 Walter Dellinger, Justice 2

# 1993 Five State Department Nominees 2

# 1993 Janet Napolitano, Justice 1

# 1994 Larry Lawrence, Ambassador 1

# 1994 Rosemary Barkett, 11th Circuit 1

# 1994 Sam Brown, Ambassador 3*

# 1994 Derek Shearer, Ambassador 2

# 1994 Ricki Tigert, FDIC 2

# 1994 H. Lee Sarokin, 3rd Circuit 1

# 1995 Henry Foster, Surgeon General 2*

# 1998 David Satcher, Surgeon General 1

# 2000 Marsha Berzon, 9th Circuit 1

# 2000 Richard Paez, 9th Circuit 1


The Fortas, Brown and Foster votes resulted in the defeat of their lifetime or short-term appointments.



http://www.leahy.senate.gov/issues/nominations/pastfilibusters.html :popcorn: Caught again.

[NMDemDist2]

1. and Janet Napolitano went on to be the Gov. of AZ and a fine job she

is doing as a Democrat in a Red State.

and she's way ahead in the polls to win again this year :bounce:

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Good for her!

I didn't know that she was once a judge.

[NMDemDist2]

8. i don't think she was a judge, Clinton/Reno offered her a position in the

Justice Dept as an Attorney IIRC

[Flabbergasted]

2. Frist was talking about changing the rules for filibusters I think

Is their any possability of this?

[Justice Is Comin]

5. Byrd would cause an absolute

all out war if he does. It would be of monumentally historic proportions. He already told him so on the floor.

[Sydnie]

7. but Byrd was one of the gang of 14 n/t

Edited to add -

Did he say this afterwards or do you think that he thinks Alito is outside of the mainstream?

[Justice Is Comin]

10. He heard him talk about the nuclear option

on one of the talk shows. Byrd came down to the floor for a special speech and just reemed him, I mean absolutely reemed him that he would dare premempt the right of free speech. And he waved his constitution.

He said don't you dare threaten a nuclear option. He was fuming.

[Sydnie]

12. Then I am four square behind him! n/t

[Sydnie]

6. With them anything is possible

He didn't do it for ANWR, so the filibuster is still up for grabs.

[Flabbergasted]

13. I'm hoping some centrist repubs vote against the confirmation?

[Ksec]

4. BAM

Good catch.

Why did it take so long for this? .

[Jacobin]

9. Great Job!!! Paging Keith Olberman

You now have a ready made segment, research all done!!

[DemGirl7]

11. Don't you know it's only ok for Republicans to filibuster a nominee??

They are nothing more than a bunch of hypocrites, these people make me f&*%ing sick. I'm tired of their stupid games, and now that they are the majority party in control, they think they can do everything they want. I think we should send this list to all of the Republicans in the Senate, and tell them to shut the hell up.

[One Voice]

14. Good Job !!

Keep up the good work

[hvn_nbr_2]

15. What do the numbers mean at the ends of the lines?

They're on Leahy's site without any explanation. Can anyone figure it out?

[Justice Is Comin]

16. Found more.

Don't exactly know what the numbers represent at the end of their names. But this even shows more disparity and blatant hypocrisy.



(From Mr. Leahy's official site)


To put it charitably, these crocodile tears about judicial nominations are a tad disingenuous.


Let’s review the record.

The earlier Democratic-led Senate confirmed more Bush judicial nominees than the Republican-led Senate has. In all, Democrats have joined in confirming 173 Bush judicial nominees – 100 of them, during the Democratic-led Senate.

So 173 have been confirmed. Six controversial nominees have been blocked. Two of them have been unilaterally appointed by the President during Senate recesses. One has withdrawn to rejoin a lucrative job with a law firm. That leaves three who have been blocked. One-hundred-seventy-three confirmed, to three blocked. Compare that to the more than 60 Clinton judicial nominees who Republicans blocked from even getting hearings, let alone votes.

We also continue to hear a lot of loose talk about so-called “unprecedented” filibusters of a few judicial nominations. These speeches usually include other inaccurate assertions, including the claim that filibusters of judicial nominations are unconstitutional.

Republican Filibusters

Now let’s review a bit of the relevant record about the use of filibusters.

During the first two years of the Clinton Administration, Republican filibusters were quite common. In 1993 and 1994, a very disciplined Republican minority in the Senate used the filibuster to block key pieces of President Clinton's legislative agenda, including an economic stimulus package, campaign finance reform, lobbying reform, health care reform, a bill to prohibit hiring permanent replacement workers for striking employees, and racial justice provisions in a crime bill.

Republicans also used a filibuster to block the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster to become Surgeon General, in addition to their failed attempts to block the nominations of judicial nominees. I call the Senate’s attention in particular to the Republican filibusters on the Senate Floor during this period of the nominations of Judge Rosemary Barkett and Judge Lee Sarokin.

And Mr. President, the record in more recent times is replete with other examples of the more than 60 Clinton judicial nominees who Republicans filibustered in committee, denying them hearings and votes.

[fooj]

17. Nice find.

Peace.

[nicknameless]

18. There was such a backlog of cases during Clinton's administrations because

rethugs wouldn't even let Clinton appointees have hearings, that even Rehnquist complained.

[Justice Is Comin]

19. One shot up for the night crew.

Don't know if you've seen this. A ready slapdown for your freep believers that will put the foot in the mouth.

[greiner3]

20. If a repug wished me a good day;

I'd double my life insurance, just in case.

[Nimrod2005]

21. I hope the dems have the balls to FillABusta...n/t

[lpbk2713]

22. Well done.

Recommended.

Bookmarked too. Because I know there will be an occasion or two in the near future when the RWers will need to have this pointed out to them. They have such selective amnesia you know.