Bush lashes out at senators blocking judges’ confirmations

[Nambe]

Agence France-Presse

President George W Bush lashed out yesterday against Democratic senators blocking the confirmation of some of his judicial appointees.

“This week, a minority of Senators continued to filibuster highly qualified judicial nominees who enjoy the support of a majority of Senators. These obstructionist tactics are unprecedented, unfair, and unfaithful to the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to vote on judicial nominees,” Bush said in a statement. ---

Bush stressed: “It is time to move past the partisan politics of the past, and do what is right for the American legal system and the American people.”

Banish bush From Texas Too

[Cha]

1. "lashes out" with his wet noodle!

Sorry that's all I can think of when I hear that arrogant chimpturd is doin' some "lashin'".

[GayboyBilly]

2. "It is time to move past the partisan politics of the past"...

Thats the best laugh, I have had all day!

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Why do I have the feeling that phrase should end with.....

"It is time to move past the partisan politics of the past" and do as I order! ?

[imax2268]

4. I can't believe...

that he made it through that whole statement without screwing it up...!

[expatriot]

8. he's getting good at recitation.

god damn it.

[w13rd0]

5. Maybe he should stop sending up...

...right wing ideaologues and actually offer some moderates. He knows these nominations are divisive, and they won't be let thru. He just wants to try and have someone else to blame for his inability to accomplish anything. He's had plenty of nominees approved, far more than the ratio Clinton dealt with. He should stick his "partisan politics of the past" up his god damn ass.

[Lexingtonian]

19. that's not the real point

The Bushies are trying to stack the federal courts of appeal that cover D.C., Florida, and Texas with these judicial psychopaths so that their corporate criminal buddies (and relatives, and they themselves) can escape the music when a Democratic President sends the federal AG after them (e.g. the Florida Republican Party) before the statute of limitations runs out. With things looking pretty dicey for 2004 (shhhh, don't tell the sheep) the Bushies are getting quite a bit of pressure to stack them quickly.

They need a new whacko for the DC CoA should Estrada get the opportunity to move up to the USSC. The fourth circuit CoA (Florida and Georgia iirc) is moderate anyway- they refused to take Bush vs. Gore, remember. The fifth (Texas and Louisiana and such) probably needs fresh shamelessness every few years since lightening bolts keep killing off the 'justices' there.

All the prattle about Roe vs. Wade and other stuff is sort of beside the point. Democrats could cave on these shills, allowing them to get voted on and placed on the CsoA if problems with the great national issues were really the problem. Judicially sanctioned crime for the privileged is a fact of life of in Texas, there's no need to bring more of it into the federal government, that's what this is about.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Unprecidented?

Yah. right. Sure, Chimpy. Whatever.

[section321]

7. aaw... is the wittle baby gonna cwy now?

asshole!

[lcordero]

9. Heh

“It is time to move past the partisan politics of the past, and do what is right for the American legal system and the American people.”

It's time to filibuster every single nominee because it's what's right for the American people.

[PurityOfEssence]

21. Absolutely: break them

The Republicans are very good at rolling over lackluster opposition; they're not so good at fighting people who fight back.

Each battle shows them as the ideologues they are, and the Demoebas are getting better at focusing their talking points of opposition.

[Julien Sorel]

10. Poor baby!

[bluestateguy]

11. How Democrats should respond...

Demand a letter of apology from George W. Bush, John Ashcroft and Orrin Hatch for the Republican Party's blockage of Bill Clinton's judicial nominees, and demand an appointment of Ronnie White to a federal judgeship. Then Democrats should allow the Bush nominees to come to a vote.

[aquart]

12. See, this is where foresight and empathy come in handy.

If they hadn't done it to us, we wouldn't have learned how to do it them.

They never get that.

Which is why I believe Republicans have a minimal form of fetal alcohol syndrome, which causes problems with conceptualizing consequences. Just a theory of course, that martini in the crucial stage of pregnancy.

[Wwagsthedog]

13. Court Nominees

"Republicans had hoped to bring up California judge Carolyn Kuhl, who wants a seat on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on Friday, but decided to save that vote until September."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=17&u=/ap/20030801/ap_on_go_co/senate_judges

Kuhl is another typical bush court nominee. Check out the following:

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=9590

Also of interest is the Henry Saad nomination. No word on whether the Senate bothered to bring up a vote on him.

"Democrats also appear to be setting up another filibuster for Henry Saad, an Arab-American judge from Michigan whom Mr. Bush has nominated to the federal appeals court.

Saad would be the first Arab American judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, which handles federal appeals from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Michigan has a large Arab population, but Michigan Democrats Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow oppose Saad because Republicans blocked their two nominees during the Clinton administration. They want the White House to compromise with them by setting up a bipartisan nomination commission, and "we oppose moving forward until that resolution is achieved," Levin said."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/31/politics/main566063.shtml

Ergo, bush baby can go cry in his latest libation if he can find his way in from the rain.

[Gloria]

14. I hate his phony crap talk!~ LOL, Hillary was on CSPAN practically

all day today, original speech plus two reruns already, lucidly
dumping on Bush nominees Pryor, Estrada, and Owens....it was awesome.

Bush couldn't win a debate against her.....she's way too smart for him

[sandnsea]

20. She was awesome; 145 Judges have been confirmed

I can't say enough good things about that speech today. I wish it would get the attention it deserves.

[Flubadubya]

28. Video of Hillary's speech now available on CSPAN...

http://www.c-span.org/

Look at bottom of page. YES!

[Spirochete]

15. He keeps bringing up the same people...

What does he think - Dashle is going to say "Aw, we were just fucking with you, George. har, har. Of course we'll pass your nominees now."

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. damn obstructionist dems blocked 4 out the 149 .....

dems approved 145 out of the 149 of bush*s nominations ...blocking 4 the bitch bastards!

[burythehatchet]

17. It is time to move past the partisan politics of the past

and at 7:00 AM on Monday morning it will time to revert to the partisan politics of the past.

[goforit]

18. Poor baby!!!

:nopity:

[Sweetpea]

22. What is RIGHT.............

Oust Bush in 2004!!!!!!!

[Dulcinea]

23. What goes around, comes around.

Life's a bitch, huh, Boy George?

[Democat]

24. Partisan politics is what Bush is playing by nominating partisan fanatics

As long as Bush continues to nominate partisan fanatics, he has nothing to say about it.

[Festivito]

25. "unprecedented" lie number what? for *. nt.

Don't let his judges through.

[arwalden]

26. "unprecedented"??? My ASS!!!

Does he even know what the word means? Or was it something that Rove spoon-fed him and coached him on how to pronounce?

What a pathetic excuse for a human being. I loathe him.

-- Allen

[dbt]

27. The irony! The hypocrisy! The HORROR!

bu$h decries the very partisian politics (of the Supreme Court, for openers) that put his sorry ass in power to begin with!

:argh:
dbt