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Originally posted by Superbelt
Whining doesn't quite cover the Republican mindset over this to me.
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Check out your own material - Every damned one of those nominees was voted on by the Senate - some were not approved but they were voted on! If I were represented by a Democrat at this time I think I'd be calling my Senator and tell hime to get his lazy ass into the chamber and vote - I dson't give a damn how he votes - I just want him to go vote!
Let's look at just one of those bastions of Democratic leadership - the less than honorable Theodore Kennedy (Democrat from Massachusetts)
He is quoted as saying:
"We are not going to roll over, be stampeded and rubber-stamped by this administration to make the judiciary in this country their sandbox to play in. We are going to insist that those judges that are going to serve on the courts of this country are going to be committed to the fundamental core values of the Constitution of the United States," said Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
Yet lets look at the position he took in 1999!
In 1999, Kennedy described Republican efforts to bottle up dozens of former President Clinton's judicial nominees as "an abdication of the Senate's constitutional responsibility to work with the president and ensure the integrity of our federal courts."
If this man was your Senator, first off I'd question your sanity for ever having elected him in the first place but, can he spell fuckin' hypocrit'! He's just playin' the party line and couldn't care less about what is right or wrong- and if he is your senator would you ask him which of the above statements actually expresses his belief - if he really has one.