Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] "they all deserve up or down votes"

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Interesting article to say the least, I am not sure how much of this
is accurate, but I will take some time and do some comparisons. Also
it would be good to know who blocked some of these. I see Senator
Helms on the list a few times.

The problem comparing this to what is happening now is this:

These judges never got out of committee. Lets compare apples to apples
here, take a look at this graph...

http://dalythoughts.com/index.php?p=2983

This shows that the number of Bush appointments that have been
confirmed is almost directly on par with those that Clinton had
confirmed. In fact, if you want to get down to brass tacks, Bush has
had 53% of his confirmed whereas Clinton had 61% of his confirmed.

Once again the left totally misses the entire point, not surprising
really. The point here is not those appointments blocked in committee
and kept from getting a vote, even though I once posted an article
here that Boxer, Feinstien and Kennedy were all screaming about that.
The problem here is democrats filibustering on the floor of the
senate.

If I have to once again put up the definition of the word filibuster
and what it means I will. Filibuster is not the blocking of
appointments in committee, filibuster is blocking a senate vote after
they have passed through committee already. This is what the democrats
were threatening to do and why the senate leadership was threatening a
change.


On 6/3/05, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Here is an interesting table on Clinton judicial nominations and what
> happened to them.  Suffice it to say, I find the current suggestion by
> some Republicans that it is unconstitutional not to have votes on
> nominees to be pretty strange.  This has never been the case, and
> certainly wasn't the policy they followed between 1995 and 2001.
> 
> http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/2005/06/feinstein-in-tabular-form-apparently.html
> 
> Again, maybe you think some of these judges should have been blocked,
> but few of them ever got a vote in committee, much less in the senate.
> 
> jking
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