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 […]
First, we have the entire Georgia runaway bride story. My question is this: It's my understanding that the betrothed are already cohabitating. So what's the big deal about the marriage? It's not like she doesn't already know if he's got a problem remembering to lower the toilet seat. Second, Cliff May reveals from personal experience […]
Sen. Chuck Schumer famously expressed skepticism whether then-Alabama Attorney General William Pryor could uphold the law if a case came before him that conflicted with his "deeply held" (religious) beliefs. Republicans, not being complete and total idiots, recognized that this was a code -- though expressly prohibited by the Constitution, the senior senator from New […]
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 […]
Over at National Review's "The Corner" there are a plethora of posts on the John Bolton nomination. It appears that the more Melody Townsel's (of Mothers Opposing Bush) charges against Bolton come into public view, the more apparent it is that she's a big, fat liar.
Sen. James Jeffords (I-Dairy Compact) has announced that he won't seek re-election. Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you on the way out.
Here are a few articles that you may have missed, but are well worth your time. If there's a San Diego equivalent of a political family like the Kennedy clan of Massachusetts, then it's the Inzunzas. Nick Inzunza is the mayor of Chula Vista. His brother Ralph is a San Diego city councilman. Then there's […]
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same sort of hyperbole and loose language that made Sen. John Cornyn the focus of so much outrage? Not since the 1960's, when federal judges in the South were threatened by cross burnings and firebombs, have judges been so besieged. Cornyn gets […]
Don't count Senators being able to keep a secret, especially when they know they shouldn't be telling it on national TV. Mr. Smith came to Washington again Monday, as an alias for a Central Intelligence Agency officer who works covertly. Senators, however, may have blown his cover. During questioning on John R. Bolton's nomination to […]