At least, that's what I'm sure my left-wing high school AP History teacher and former national teacher of the year Myrra Lee would give him for this application of the Constitutional system of checks and balances. During Tuesday's news conference, Reid also challenged Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to schedule a vote on the […]
Sen. Chuck Schumer on "Fox News Sunday" had the following to say when outlining why "democracy" in America is under attack: What's happened is that a number of extreme groups have attacked judges, almost threatened them. For instance, Pat Robertson said judges are worse than terrorists who fly buildings into airplanes... Yes, that quote is […]
Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has opined on the qualities of a "loser." According to Reid, a "loser" somehow manages to win two presidential elections, expand his party's majority in the Senate, and expand the reach of democracy worldwide. Reid wishes that his party had "losers" of that quality.
David Brooks' column in today's New York Times reveals a secret aspect of the Democrats' filibuster-preserving deal that the GOP rejected last week -- in return for accepting defeat on several of the filibustered circuit court judges, Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid would guarantee enough Democrat votes to break any filibuster of President Bush's next […]
Well, former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo nailed it with Saturday's Democrat radio address. The American judicial system is not about interpreting the Constitution or laws enacted by the legislature, it's about making law. Now, the Republicans in the Senate ... are threatening to claim ownership of the Supreme Court and other federal courts, hoping […]
Sen. Harry Reid has now made it clear that the filibusters the Democrats are waging against President Bush's judicial nominees aren't about having time to debate the merits of the judges, but instead are about "checks and balances." Fine. Honesty is a good thing. But let's take that "checks and balances" misnomer -- the filibuster […]
California's "smarter" senator, Dianne Feinstein, has made a shocking discovery: nuclear weapons kill people. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the study confirms that nuclear bunker busters cannot dig deep enough to prevent large casualties. "The bottom line is that it would result in the deaths of up to a million people or more if used […]
I'm watching Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid defend the unprecedented filibuster of judicial nominees on the Senate floor. Reid characterized a Frist proposal to change the Senate rules as a "big fat wet kiss to the far right." Frankly, I'm surprised Reid was able to get that out when he's got Ralph Neas' tongue so […]
Another Democrat politician attempted -- again -- to give new impetus to the left-wing loonies who are obsessed with the possibility of a draft. Sen. Daniel Inouye, the Democrat from Hawaii, said, "For the first time in many years the Army and Marine Corps are not meeting their recruiting targets. There are some who are […]
Earlier this week, when I wished Vermont's Jim Jeffords well in his post-legislative career, a commenter suggested that we need more moderates/centrists in the Senate. That got me to thinking. Let's list some Republican moderates/centrists/"mavericks" in the Senate: Lincoln Chafee, R.I. John McCain, Ariz. Olympia Snowe, Maine Susan Collins, Maine Arlen Specter, Pa. If you […]