PROVEN FACT: Rightwhine Party =TOTAL Lying Hypocrites. Filibusters

[LynnTheDem]

BLUE SLIP BLUES....Bill Frist was on Fox News last year, chatting sympathetically with Tony Snow and Brit Hume about the Democratic strategy of filibustering judicial nominees they don't like. It was "unprecedented," Frist said, "inexcusable."

Of course Frist didn't mention all the filibusters done by the Rightwhine Party to Clinton's nominees. And of course none of them mentioned they were in fact LYING their asses off...

Blue Slips Rules:

Pre-1994

-Two blue slips needed to kill a nominee.

This was the default "Senatorial courtesy" tradition followed by both parties regardless of who was president. If both senators from the judge's home state "blue slipped" a nominee, he was out.

1995-2000

-Only one blue slip needed to kill a nominee.

Republicans take control of the Senate and decide that the old rule is archaic. Only one blue slip should be required to block a nominee, thus making it easier for them kill Clinton nominees.

2001

-Back to two slips.

With bush in the White House, their shiny new rule suddenly no longer seems like such a good idea: why, it makes it easier for Democrats to block George Bush's nominees! Republicans change the rule back to two blue slips.

2001-2002

-Democrats reinstate one blue slip rule.

Republicans never really got a chance to enact their power play before Jim Jeffords defected. With Democrats in power, they keep the one blue slip rule. (The rule the Republicans had unilaterally put in place from 1995-2000.)

2002-Present

-Two blue slips.

Republicans now control the Senate again and make good on their earlier promise to move to a two-blue-slip rule.

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/004431.html

It was the Republicans who decided back in 1995 to unilaterally change the blue slip rule because they wanted to put roadblocks in the way of Bill Clinton's judges. But suddenly, when they had their own president in the White House, they didn't like the roadblock idea so much.

As for "UNPRECEDENTED", I think NOT:

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson nominated Associate Justice Abe Fortas to replace Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Warren announced his intention to retire. The Judiciary Committee approved the Fortas nomination by a vote of 11 to 6, but conservative Senators, led by Senator Strom Thurmond and others, mounted a filibuster on the floor on the motion to proceed to the nomination.

http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=744&wit_id=2043

Typical rightwhinenut bullshit hypocrisy; WHINE and LIE, and just CHANGE THE RULES BACK & FORTH whenever and however it suits them.

[sam sarrha]

1. who said, "If you repeat a lie enought times you are a Republican" ??

[sonicx]

2. i don't hear the Democrats pointing this out...

each time one gets on TV, they need to briefly repeat what you just said.

[spooky3]

3. I'm shocked--shocked, I tell you!--to hear their values include lying!

[HereSince1628]

4. another flip flop flap

I love the flapping sound of zorries (aka flip-flops aka thong footwear). Everytime a republican speaks it seems to produce a similar flapping sound.

Republican truth telling is much like rubber zorries. The sandal doesn't really have to fit in the first place and if it turns out to be too small the straps will stretch.

But then the landscape of rules that bring order to legislatures has no permanent boundaries, each party adjusts them as they can, when they can, to suit their needs.

I do find the constant lying thing to be truly remarkable.

With no really threatening enemy nation tarnishing the use of blatant lies it seems that the Republicans have adopted this as a modus operandi.

They pretend to tell the truth, the media pretends to report the truth and the population pretends to know anything about current events.

Yes, this seems more and more like the Union of the Reds.

God Bless the Motherland.