Bush Demands Action on Judicial Nominees

[sharonstone]

WASHINGTON - President Bush accused the Senate of "shameful" inaction on his judicial nominees, lending his voice Thursday to a 30-hour Senate debate over Republican efforts to pry conservative nominees loose from Democratic filibusters.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=4&u=/ap/20031113/ap_on_go_co/senate_talkathon

[Mandolinista]

1. Bush demands, does he ?

Ooooohhhh, now things are really gonna start happening!
:spank:

[tekriter]

2. I Demand Bush Kiss My Lumpy White Center of Gravity.

so there.:grr:

[calimary]

3. Have you called your Senate/Congress-critter today? Do it FREE!

1 (800) 839 - 5276 - call and asked to be transfered to anybody's office in the House and/or Senate. They'll do it free!

THIS MUST BE A PRIORITY, MY FRIENDS!

I called Barbara Boxer's office in Washington and one of her aids sounded so down - somewhat relieved to get a call like mine. It must be awful there for Dems. Shit. It's getting awful all over the place. And for all of us.

Dear God, WHEN DOES THIS END????????????????????????????????????

[karlschneider]

4. He's adorable when he stamps his little foot and pouts.

:eyes:

[loudnclear]

5. He's getting all the action he can handle.

I would say the Senate is giving plenty of action. Go Dems and don't give up!

[DC Pol Sci]

6. Frist's poll was HACKED...

Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) began this debate by announcing that Americans overwhelmingly want the Senate to fulfill its Constitutional duty to give the judicial nominees an up or down vote.

Guess what Frist cited as his evidence that Americans want an up or down vote? He cited a poll that was up on his Website yesterday, a poll which, as of 7:30 last night, due to postings on Dem blogs, was losing badly. With about 2,900 votes, 21 percent were for the up-or-down vote, and 79 percent were against, even though the question was so heavily loaded as to be an outright push poll.

Then, at about 7:45, as I sat in the computer lab in my university's library preparing the evening's Best of the Blog on the Clark Website and popping over to the Frist Website from time to time, something really strange began to happen before my eyes. The numbers started changing. About 200-400 votes a minute started coming in, and every single one of them was "yes." By 8:30, there were something like 13,000 votes (yes, that's right, 10,000 votes in an hour...something which, if true, would, I'm sure, by far set an all-time record for the number of visits to a Senator's Website in a one-hour period). The results had changed. "Yes" was now winning.

Senator Frist stood on the floor of the Senate this morning and announced that Americans wanted an up-or-down vote on these four judicial nominees on the basis of a blatantly hacked poll.

I've tried everything to get the word out. I called Daschle's office. I called the National Desk of the Washington Post. I called Schumer's office (he's a firebrand, and he's been taking the lead in fighting for the right to filibuster...plus which, I like the guy). I even called Frist's office (and got shunted off to a recorded message).

Ladies and gentlemen, they're at it again, and I saw it with my own eyes (of course, this isn't the first time -- I was in the House chamber when they impeached Clinton). But let's do what we can to get the word out. Cross-post this email to other blogs. If you know a staffer in a Democratic Senate office, call them and try to get their attention. If they want to talk to me, since I actually saw it happen, drop me an email ([e-mail]). Call the call-in shows tonight. Don't let them get away with it!!!

[TahitiNut]

7. duplicate

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=216951

I'm locking this thread. Interested DUers are welcome to continue discussing this in the referenced thread.

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