Reply #11: This has very little chance of getting out of committee

[TayTay]

These are the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

REPUBLICANS
Arlen Specter CHAIRMAN, PENNSYLVANIA
Orrin G. Hatch UTAH
Charles E. Grassley IOWA
Jon Kyl ARIZONA
Mike DeWine OHIO
Jeff Sessions ALABAMA
Lindsey Graham SOUTH CAROLINA
John Cornyn TEXAS
Sam Brownback KANSAS
Tom Coburn OKLAHOMA

DEMOCRATS
Patrick J. Leahy RANKING DEMOCRATIC MEMBER, VERMONT
Edward M. Kennedy MASSACHUSETTS
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. DELAWARE
Herbert Kohl WISCONSIN
Dianne Feinstein CALIFORNIA
Russell D. Feingold WISCONSIN
Richard J. Durbin ILLINOIS
Charles E. Schumer NEW YORK


There are some real Rethug 'true believers' on that committee. (Including Coburn, who doesn't belong on a it as he is a boob and unqualified. What an embarrassment.)

There is little to no chance that this measure will ever get voted out of that Committee. Sessions, Coburn and Brownback would have to be absent for that to happen. Hearings on it in committee would turn into one of the ugliest episodes in Senatorial history.

I think the censure motion is a good idea. However, I can read that list of Rethugs and understand that it has no chance of ever getting to the floor. The only chance it has was when Frist offered to bring it to a vote Monday night or Tuesday afternoon. Now that the Rethugs see that it is not the loser with the public that they thought it would be, it will die in Committee.

This fight is now solely an intra-Democratic fight. There is no downside to co-sponsoring this thing. (It's not like we don't know which side Sen. Kerry is on, that is hardly a mystery by now.) This censure motion has changed since it's solo introduction on Monday. It has taken on a life of it's own. I say that the Dems should sign on to it. It has become one of those legendary 'stands' that define the Party. (Whether we wanted it to be or not. The deck has been re-shuffled.)