The GOP Demanded An "Up or Down Vote" on Hack Rethug Judges, Why Won't They Give One to Save Our GIs

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The GOP Demanded on An "Up or Down Vote" on Hack Republican Judges, Why Won't They Give One to Save Our GIs?
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 6:51am. Editorials

The GOP Busheviks Demanded an Up or Down Vote on Partisan GOP Federal Judge Appointments. But The Same Republican Hacks in the Senate are Filibustering a Vote on Whether or Not to Support Our Troops by Saving Them From Dying in a Failed War.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Any Republican or Democrat in Congress or the White House who supports a war that is only running on the fuel of failed leadership and GOP solidarity should go and fight in it, instead of mouthing lies about "supporting our troops."

During the skirmishes over Bush’s appointment of radical GOP partisan judges to the Supreme Court, the White House sent out a message point: "An up or down vote." In fact, then GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (who must have had a skeleton in his closet for him to disappear from political life so precipitously) threatened to end the time-honored filibuster in the Senate to give the Bush judicial hit men an "up or down vote."

Only the intervention of a small group of GOP Dems who teamed up with "moderate" Republicans prevented Frist from "bombing" the filibuster by eliminating it with a majority vote. Essentially, the "centrist" GOP Dems gave the Republicans what they wanted (it’s called capitulation) – and Bush got Alito and other "Constitutional Revisionist" (forget that misleading "framing" claim that they are "Strict Constructionists") judges on the federal bench.

Now, it’s a short time later and the Republicans won’t even allow a vote on saving the lives of our troops. They even, just last week, filibustered a bill sponsored by Senator James Webb that would have simply required that the troops be combat ready!

No, we don’t hear any more from the Republicans of giving them an "up or down vote." Hack judges who will deliver rulings that will back up Bush and Cheney policies and keep their hit men out of jail apparently deserve an "up or down vote," but the lives of our GIs don’t.

The chronic and unceasing Republican hypocrisy would not be so unforgivable if it were not so sanctimonious. This is a White House and political party that has so diverged from reality, in the name of sticking together as "a team," that they might as well be taking LSD. Maybe they are, although these are the guys who prefer alcoholism to drugs, and promiscuous sex while extolling the sanctity of marriage to honesty.

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1. rethugs only want an "up or down vote" when they know the odds are stacked

suddenly, they've become big fans of the filibuster, despite all the talk of the "nuclear option". But since the MSM can only remember what Paris was wearing last week or what Lindsey Lohan had to drink a party, and seemingly have no recollection whatsoever of the rethug "nuclear option". :eyes: