U.S. Senate Dems want to delay approving Rice

[NVMojo]

CTV.ca News Staff

Democrats in the U.S. Senate now want to stall final approval of Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State until next week.

"There are a number of Democrats not on the committee that want to have a chance to debate her nomination a couple of hours," Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

However, Democrats would not seek to block her, he said.


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[gademocrat7]

1. delay rice

Do IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NVMojo]

2. if there is a delay ...and a debate ...it could get interesting ....

[acmavm]

3. So what is the point? I WANT them to make the gesture of trying to

prevent he appointment. I don't care if it's a futile gesture or whatever. I WANT them to show that lying sack of shit that it will not be as easy this time to bullshit everyone and get away with it.

Other than a very few (and I do mean very few)democrats I have no use for these quisling bastards sponging off the public payroll anymore. Especially since they're only masquerading as democrats so they can run for office. THEY NEED TO GO!

[dvaravati]

4. the just want to give lip service

just like every issue.

[cal04]

5. Democrats could delay confirmation

Democrats expect a nine-hour debate on Condoleezza Rice’s nomination
The Democratic Senate leadership expects to reach an agreement with Senate Republicans for a nine-hour debate on the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice next Tuesday, a senior Democratic Senate source told RAW STORY Wednesday evening.

The agreement, which must be reached by unanimous consent, but which is very much expected, will allow Democratic senators not on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to voice their thoughts about Rice on the Senate floor.Senate Republicans can derail the discussion with a cloture vote of 60 senators–which would have to include some Democrats–but that is not expected, the high-level official said.

Ranking Democratic leader Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) office disclosed Wednesday afternoon that several members planned to debate Rice’s nomination on the Senate floor next week, but Senate offices are mum on this chilly inaugural eve on who exactly will speak. Reid’s office declined to name any of the members who have expressed interest in speaking, saying it is traditional for the minority leader’s office to allow the senators to come forward on their own time. The spokesman asserted that it was “not a filibuster.”“There are a number of Democrats not on the committee that want to have a chance to debate her nomination,” another Reid spokesman told the Associated Press.
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=565


The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to approve Condoleezza Rice’s nomination to be secretary of state, but after two days of strenuous questioning on the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq, Democrats planned to delay her widely expected confirmation by the full Senate, NBC News reported.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6842774/

[NVMojo]

7. excellent, thanks for posting!

[Gloria]

6. Randi Rhodes has it right...Dems should vote as a BLOC and

attempt to bring along the few moderate Republicans on key votes. But all they do is fragment...why didn't they all vote agains Rice in commitee? Why don't they all vote against her in the Senate? Screw it,
there's safety in numbers and people will start paying attention to what you are saying if you have one voice.

[jmatthan]

8. What is important is not whether Rice is appointed or not

but with Boxer having made each of her charges part of the record, the Democrat Senators should each play it up so that there is no option but for the MSM to bring each aspect of the record to the forefront. Also they would have to explain why they have not been writing about it earlier.

This would deflect the attack on Kerry as a loser and on Boxer, who has done an outstanding job is standing up and speaking for her constituents.

I have sent Senator Boxer my views at each stage and have been heartened by her response to her constituents. However, the work of Boxer is not only for her constituents but also for the entire world as the US Secretary of State is the US face to the world.

I especially refer to Thom Hartmann's programme of last evening where he made specific reference to the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in that it is not enough to just speak great words, but one has to stand up straight and be counted.

This was a remark especially directed at Barrack Obama, but it applies to every Democrat Senator and Representative!!

In this context I request all of you to lobby hard on your individual Senators to stand up and be counted!! It depends on you, as Boxer acted because 40000 of her constituents stood behind her along with thousands of us who are not even US citizens or even living in the US!! Ray Taliaferro will vouch for that as he was inundated with calls to his Talk Show.

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland

[fshrink]

9. Don't you guys see???

It's just some slack cut to us so that the whole system get validated. She's just sitting there waiting patiently, playing like she's angry or hurt and knowing perfectly what's gonna happen. It's a fucking show. Every single actor in it is part of the same script, the Dems merely to lend credibility. The real action was at the senate and in front of the TV cameras when the so-called election still had a chance of being contested.

[Moderator]

10. duplicate

locking. discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1165641