RightWHINE Party total hypocrisy; Filibusters

[LynnTheDem]

Wahhh wahhh wahhh cry the rightWHINEnut babies. Bad mean ol' Democrats are using their legal right to *gasp* FILIBUSTER bush's nominations!

What the rightwhinenuts don't, of course, point out is that IN FACT (they hate them pesky things!) RIGHTWHINENUTS have done FAR MORE filibusters than the Dems:

Only two of bush's nominees have faced cloture votes - and these cloture votes have been public roll call votes, not the secret holds that Republicans used to block dozens of President Clinton's nominees.

More than 60 of President Clinton's nominees were not given hearings or votes in Committee, and others were filibustered or waited years to receive hearings.

bush sent his first group of judicial nominees to the Senate on May 9, 2001. Two years later, 123 of his nominees have been confirmed - 100 of them by a Democratic-led Senate in the 107th Congress.

Rightwhiners created a judicial vacancy crisis by refusing to act on more than half (56 percent) of President Clinton's circuit court nominees in 1999 and 2000, and by refusing to confirm a single appellate judge in 1996.

http://democrats.senate.gov/~dpc/pubs/108-1-179.html

According to the Congressional Research Service, between 1980 and 2000, before the start of the current Bush administration, cloture motions were filed on ten lower court nominations. As recently as 2000, cloture votes were necessary to obtain votes on President Clinton’s nominations of both Richard Paez and Marsha Berzon to the Ninth Circuit; President Clinton’s nomination of Lee Sarokin to the Third Circuit was openly filibustered as well.

Sixty-three of President Clinton’s judicial nominees never even made it out of the Judiciary Committee.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was among those voting against cloture on the Paez nomination, and then voted to indefinitely postpone a vote on the nomination after cloture was invoked. Hypocritically, with a Republican in the White House, Senator Frist now says that “If filibusters are going to be made part of the judicial nominee process, I think you will see increasing discussion over whether the rules should be changed

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=16955

That's the "MORAL VALUES" of the rightwhinenuts.

[TomClash]

1. When Clinton was President . . .

. . . the Chief Judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit had a sign placed in the lobby of the Courthouse telling entrants how many vacancies the Congress had blocked in that Circuit.

[MSgt213]

2. Just like they are the only ones that can use lawyers to sue anyone else

is filing frivolous lawsuits tying up the courts.