"you can't give up a minority rights tool ..like the filibuster" Hagel (R)

[annabanana]

Is Hagel calling out to those other (real) Republicans? Who will line up behind him? How many have to if Frist drops the bomb?


"My goodness, you've got 100 United States senators. Some of us might be moderately intelligent enough to figure this out," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. "We need to work through this."
(snip)

"We would, I think, debase our system and fail our country if we don't do this," Hagel told ABC's "This Week."

"But you can't give up a minority rights tool in the interest of the country, like the filibuster," he said.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said, "It's that kind of statement that gives us hope."
(snip/...)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/0...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Link doesn't work.

n/t

[ibid]

2. Better link below

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/05/09/national/w004547D31.DTL

[annabanana]

3. thx, ibid!.... ......... . n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

4. Thanks Chuck.

Thank you for the sanity and perspective; perhaps you'll go down in history as the Republican who kept the country from being Frist-fucked. Per the story:

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"The United States Senate is a minority rights institution unique in the world," Hagel said. "And I don't think either side wants to give that up. Now, the other part of this, which I also believe strongly, is that presidents deserve votes on their nominees."

But he noted that Republicans prevented votes on many of President Clinton's choices for the federal bench.

"The Republicans' hands aren't clean on this either. What we did with Bill Clinton's nominees — about 62 of them — we just didn't give them votes in committee or we didn't bring them up," Hagel said.