Harry Reid's Nuclear Hypocrisy

[Koko78]

 

At least the one on the left seems like she'd have the decency shoot you while looking you in the face, rather than the moment you turned your back.

[B-Man]

 

The very useful lesson

 

 

FTA:

It’s no secret that President Obama was behind the push to end the filibuster as a means of blocking nominees for U.S. appeals court judgeships. At a fundraiser earlier this month, he told liberal donors that he is “remaking the courts.”

 

Recognizing that the filibuster stood in the way of a full radical makeover, Obama personally lobbied three Democratic Senators who were undecided about whether to eliminate it. Obama reportedly told them “how important this was to him and our ability to get anything done for the rest of the term.”

 

The White House stressed the need to confirm three new judges for the D.C. Circuit, which rules on a wide swath of regulatory issues. Stymied by Congress, Obama plans to push his left-wing agenda through regulatory overreach. He needs liberal judges to prevent the resulting rules from being overturned.

 

Now he will have three of them on the D.C. Circuit. Obama’s mission for Patricia Millett, Cornelia Pollard, and Robert Wilkins could not be more clear. No one should doubt that they will carry it out. The left never screws up this sort of thing.

 

One consequence of ending the filibuster under these circumstances is to demonstrate just how much law has become politics by other means. And a consequence of that demonstration is to further undermine the public’s trust in the judiciary and, ultimately, the law.

 

On balance, I consider this a good thing. Why? Because much of the important stuff that federal appeals courts do is, indeed, politics by other means, and the public needs to understand this. The more that federal judges lose their mystique, the more that realism is enhanced. The more that judicial decisions in important controversial cases are understood as ideologically driven, the better.

 

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To be clear, I don’t celebrate the fact that law has become a subdivision of partisan politics. I just think it’s a good thing that this reality is being exposed.

 

 

http://www.powerline...-power-grab.php

[Tiberius]

 

Do you ever say anything yourself? I mean you are just the right wing propaganda mill. Wow, imagine if a left winger tried to do this, joy boy, la and the rest of the lynch mob would be calling for a ban!

[Doc]

Too bad Dirty Harry isn't up for being booted out next year.

[IDBillzFan]

Do you ever say anything yourself? I mean you are just the right wing propaganda mill. Wow, imagine if a left winger tried to do this, joy boy, la and the rest of the lynch mob would be calling for a ban!

 

Oh, please. You're the epitomy of a left-wing propaganda mill and all we do it bat you around like common chew toy.

[keepthefaith]

Remember a time when someone was a liar was the worst thing you could call someone and the wost thing you could be? Sad, not many remember.

 

I remember a time when telling the truth and being big enough to admit one's own mistakes was common behavior.

[boyst]

 

 

I remember a time when telling the truth and being big enough to admit one's own mistakes was common behavior.

when you admit your mistake which is more "manly" aka responsible: turning the mistake over to another and facing consequences of your failures or gritting your teeth and trying again?

 

I ask this to everyone. Really I've seen nothing but excuses from Obama so I'm not sure if he

Has actually tried to face the music or roll his sleeves up.

[IDBillzFan]

I ask this to everyone. Really I've seen nothing but excuses from Obama so I'm not sure if he

Has actually tried to face the music or roll his sleeves up.

 

Please...the only time Barack Obama rolls up his sleeves is when he needs to sink the putt to win the round. You're talking about a person who readily and repeatedly admits that he learns about the problems in this world the same way you do...from the news.

 

This is a person built to take credit, not blame. He's made to tear down, not build up. And most importantly, he's built to lead nothing more than the weak-minded fools who remain stupid enough to follow him, defend him and fund him. And now we're hearing even a dolt like Al Franken wants to put the breaks on Obamacare...which means he's starting to lose the weak-minded fools now.

[Koko78]

Please...the only time Barack Obama rolls up his sleeves is when he needs to sink the putt to win the round. You're talking about a person who readily and repeatedly admits that he learns about the problems in this world the same way you do...from the news.

 

This is a person built to take credit, not blame. He's made to tear down, not build up. And most importantly, he's built to lead nothing more than the weak-minded fools who remain stupid enough to follow him, defend him and fund him. And now we're hearing even a dolt like Al Franken wants to put the breaks on Obamacare...which means he's starting to lose the weak-minded fools now.

 

Now you're just selling Obama short. He is fully capable of rolling up his sleeves to look like he's working for photo opportunities.

 

 

See, sleeves are rolled up while he's acting like he's doing something.

[B-Man]

 

Mr. Reid goes to Washington...............................

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS IS WHY THEY’RE SO ANXIOUS TO PACK THE D.C. CIRCUIT: Here Come Multiple Lawsuits Challenging Implementation Of Obamacare.

[Chef Jim]

Do you ever say anything yourself? I mean you are just the right wing propaganda mill. Wow, imagine if a left winger tried to do this, joy boy, la and the rest of the lynch mob would be calling for a ban!

 

Please feel free to post all the articles, op eds, blogs of people talking postively about our President. We'll wait.

[IDBillzFan]

Please feel free to post all the articles, op eds, blogs of people talking postively about our President. We'll wait.

 

Oh, great. More DailyKos links.

[B-Man]

Liberals feel a deep need to justify their shift in positions on this issue by claiming that Republicans have engaged in a shocking departure from past practice in blocking Obama’s judicial nominees. It just isn’t so.

 

FTA:

 

 

Instead of looking at filed cloture motions, let’s look at defeated cloture motions.

 

On this count, ten Bush 43 judicial nominees encountered a total of 20 defeated cloture motions in a period of two years.

 

By contrast, over the nearly five years of the Obama administration, six Obama judicial nominees have suffered a total of seven defeated cloture motions. Plus, one of those six nominees, Robert Bacharach (Tenth Circuit), was defeated on cloture at the very end of July 2012 not as part of a filibuster against him but in an application of the Thurmond Rule on election-year action. (Bacharach was unanimously confirmed in February 2013.) So this data shows that ten Bush 43 nominees were filibustered, versus five Obama nominees.

 

In sum, what the Left calls “simply undeniable” is simply false.

 

 

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[boyst]

So Jimmy Smith is really rolling over in his grave. First George Bailey gets recast. Now Jeff Smith gets removed.

[Chef Jim]

So Jimmy Smith is really rolling over in his grave. First George Bailey gets recast. Now Jeff Smith gets removed.

 

Jimmy Smith?

 

You youngins

Edited November 26, 2013 by Chef Jim

[boyst]

Jimmy Smith?

 

You youngins

Crap Jimmy Stewart. I must have missed typing it and not caught it to have it correct. I know Jimmy Stewart, he's one of my favorite actors. He did a wonderful job in Shop Around The Corner. That's one of my favorite Christmas movies, too. Glenn Miller, Philidelphia Story, and on and on...great actor. Lawrence Olivier is also one of my favorites.

 

I guess if we went back to your days we'd be talking Sleep n'Eat, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo and Gary Cooper...

[Chef Jim]

Crap Jimmy Stewart. I must have missed typing it and not caught it to have it correct. I know Jimmy Stewart, he's one of my favorite actors. He did a wonderful job in Shop Around The Corner. That's one of my favorite Christmas movies, too. Glenn Miller, Philidelphia Story, and on and on...great actor. Lawrence Olivier is also one of my favorites.

 

I guess if we went back to your days we'd be talking Sleep n'Eat, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo and Gary Cooper...

 

Nah, those are actors from those newfangled talkies.

[DC Tom]

Crap Jimmy Stewart. I must have missed typing it and not caught it to have it correct. I know Jimmy Stewart, he's one of my favorite actors. He did a wonderful job in Shop Around The Corner. That's one of my favorite Christmas movies, too. Glenn Miller, Philidelphia Story, and on and on...great actor. Lawrence Olivier is also one of my favorites.

 

I guess if we went back to your days we'd be talking Sleep n'Eat, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo and Gary Cooper...

 

His best role was as commander of the 703rd Bombardment Squadron.

 

Seriously. Good commander, with an envious combat record. Went from private to colonel in four years.

[3rdnlng]

 

 

His best role was as commander of the 703rd Bombardment Squadron.

 

Seriously. Good commander, with an envious combat record. Went from private to colonel in four years.

 

There are some people that just deserve our admiration. I wonder how long it will take crocoschitboy to refute that? Maybe he'll come back with a witty comment about the size of my pecker.

[B-Man]

Filibuster change damages courts, federal appeals judge says in op-ed.

 

The additional degree of vetting/legitimacy provided by the possibility of a filibuster is important in an era where the judiciary is already seen by most as politicized.

 

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