A few Republican moderates have just sold-out to the Democrats. Republicans don't know how to lead. They don't know how to govern. Not one more dime -- ever. *UPDATE* Text of the memorandum of selling-out can be found here. To sum-up: Republicans get nothing except votes on a couple of nominees they would've gotten votes […]
One of the less persuasive, but most accurate Democrat complaints on the issue of judges has been that Repubicans have the House, Senate and presidency -- now they want the "independent judiciary too." On its face, this argument seems to somehow suggest that anytime the president and Senate do their constitutional duties in staffing the […]
CNN's story on the possibility of a Senate compromise on judges contains this little gem. Republicans have said no judicial nominee has been filibustered in the Senate's history, although they filibustered the nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice in 1968. Actually, Republicans and Democrats briefly filibustered the Fortas nomination -- though no one […]
Unbowed, or more likely ignorant, of their previous fisking, The New York Times editorial writers continue to demostrate that I am overqualified for an editorial writing job at the nation's "paper of record." The judicial nominations debate reached a new low this week when a Republican senator compared his Democratic colleagues to Hitler. Granted, Sen. […]
The only compromise on judges that I will be willing to endorse is the Patterico compromise.
An anonymous commenter in the post below had the following to say: With regard to judges and the filibuster--please note--what goes round comes round. Republicans better hope that they stay in the majority! Well, I certainly hope the GOP stays in the majority. However, I also believe that if the Republicans caved -- preserving the […]
I've had my digital video recorder saving the Senate debate on judicial nominees for posterity's sake, and I continue to be flabbergasted by one of the Democrats' weak claims to legitimacy. It's something that has been has been seen elsewhere -- like this op-ed piece in Wednesday's Union-Tribune -- but has now made it to […]
The New York Times decision to put its columnists and editorials behind a subscription-only service is going to save me quite a bit of time responding to dishonest garbage like this. Unless the Democrats are smart enough to back down and delay their filibuster fight for a Supreme Court nominee, the Republicans are going to […]
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin made the following statement on "Fox News Sunday": First, let me say there are only four that are truly contested. Four judicial nominees who have been rejected by the Senate at this point and have been resubmitted by the President. That's never been done before. False. Untrue. First, let's outline what […]
It appears as though CBS has chosen to use the editing technique favored by the late night comics for a less-than-comedic effect. According to former federal judge and special prosecutor Ken Starr, a Monday evening CBS News report that characterized him as being opposed to the nuclear/Byrd option on filibusters was, in fact, creative editing. […]