Ken Starr threatens that GOP will bring Obama hell when he has to nominate Supreme Court justices

[TeamJordan23]

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Ken Starr: Obama's Supreme Court picks will face trouble
February 14 2009 9:22 PM BY CARRIE SHEFFIELD

Kenneth W. Starr has a warning for the Obama administration: what goes around comes around.

During a speech yesterday in Boston, Starr told a group of attorneys that President Barack Obama could face an uphill battle over his Supreme Court nominees because as a senator he opposed two of George W. Bush's Supreme Court picks, Samuel Alito and John Roberts.

Starr's message: elephants don't forget.

The former independent counsel during Bill Clinton's Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals, Starr said an aging Supreme Court meant that Obama could be able to name perhaps two or more nominees to the high court. And that could lead to a showdown with Senate Republicans who were livid with Democrats like Obama who filibustered and voted against the Bush picks.

Starr pointed out that Obama enters office with healthy Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, however, he said "the salience of this very enviable position, politically, for our president is brought home by the president's own approach to the high court during his years of service as a United States senator."

He continued, "There is one historical factoid of note: He is the first president of the United States ever in our history to have participated in a Senate filibuster of a judicial nominee. Never before has that happened."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/politics-101/2009/Feb/14/ken-starr-obamas-supreme-court-picks-will-face-tro/

[madaboutharry]

1. These people are delusional.

Someone should make Ken Starr pee in a cup. He must be on something.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

2. F*&*^*^ Ken Starr N/T

[graywarrior]

3. What a fuckwad

[Jennicut]

4. Whatever. Roberts and Alito were conservative idiots.

Besides, Obama is way more popular then Bush was even in the early days. I dare the Rethugs to try and block any nominees. Their polls #'s will tank even more.

[floridablue]

5. I still have my Starr fund

A plane ticket and taxi to wherever they bury him, spit on the grave and leave.

[Frustratedlady]

9. How old is he? I thought he was long gone.

[davidinalameda]

12. I have a small bladder

after my cab ride to his grave, I'll have to piss and what better place to do it

[Turbineguy]

21. There's a guy

who will have a dancefloor and a urinal installed over his grave.

[BlooInBloo]

6. (yawn)

[MidwestTransplant]

7. "He is the first president of the United States ever in have participated in a Senate filabuster"

Gee Ken and how many Senators have been elected President? JFK was that last (though I think LBJ was a Senator too).

[jobycom]

14. This century: JFK, LBJ, Truman, and Harding.

And I'd have to do research to see if any of them took part in filibusters. One thing we've learned watching Ken Starr handle facts is that he doesn't give a rat's ass about facts, he only cares about attacking Democrats.

[Happyhippychick]

8. But Ken, your party is the minority and it just won't matter. Find another cause.

[saltpoint]

10. Ken Starr is a big wuss.

[jobycom]

11. He's still mad that he sold his soul and the Devil still refused to appoint him to SCOTUS.

Dude pissed off the liberals with his propaganda witchhunt, and he pissed off the Republicans by not inventing something better than he did. Who the Hell even put a microphone in front of his face?

[Ikonoklast]

13. Crotch-sniffer Starr still angry that he's irrelevant.

After all the water-carrying he did for BushCo, he is till persona non grata with the power brokers.

He was used like a (fill in the blank here) and discarded.

[Mist]

18. LOL! "Crotch-sniffer"--what a perfect label for Starr. Yes, he's irrelevant, and eager to push

himself into public importance again.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. We'll see how long the American people put up with empty SC seats

as a function of GOP petty vindictiveness.

And these idiots wonder why they got their asses handed to them in November.

[jkshaw]

16. Kenneth Starr needs to be incarcerated.

[annabanana]

17. don't laugh. . The Federalist Society has gotten used to a free hand

in judicial nominees. Any choice that is not one of their radical thugs is going to face the whole crew . . .think tanks, media lakeys and ever bit of pent up "conventional wisdom" they can muster.

[firedupdem]

19. Ken Who? Nobody is afraid of your threats you jerk. n/t

[Political Tiger]

20. Reply to Ken Starr:

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:
:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:
:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:
:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:
:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[opihimoimoi]

22. Cab someone please get this Toad to STFU??

[Lint Head]

23. Ken Starr? You mean the idiot that's obsessed with blow jobs?

:dem:

[WinkyDink]

39. Indeed. Think about it.

[DUgosh]

24. Bring it on Kennyboy

I've got a blue dress around here that will fit you nicely.

[WeDidIt]

25. This from the party that INVENTED the concept of a...

NUCLEAR OPTION!

Yeah, Ken. What goes around comes around.

[Danger Mouse]

26. If Ken Starr were on fire, I would piss on him to put out the flames.

But only because I'd be getting to piss on Ken Starr.

[tsuki]

27. Nuclear Option, and we even have a President that can pronounce it correctly. nt

[w4rma]

28. He's spouting off to get some of those funds from wealthy billionare neo-cons.

He'll take their money and rip them off too, by skimming off the top.

[Fire1]

29. I thought Ken Starr was dead!

[kiranon]

30. Ken Starr is upset because he is never going to be on the Supreme Court.

It's personal with him.

[mitchum]

31. Fuck that pecksniffian tool

[LiberalFighter]

32. If he hadn't done so before he has confirmed he is all about politics.

[Jack Rabbit]

33. We haven't forgotten Ken Starr, either.

Hasn't that partisan hack of an unprofessional shyster been disbarred yet?

[PM Martin]

34. Gee, the Republicans are throwing everything they

have right now, which is not much. Ken Starr would only be a thorn in the side of the Republicans when it comes to such matters. Nobody likes him.

[Vektor]

35. Good luck with that, you weirdly inappropriate, voyeuristic, creepy ol' douchebag.

Why don't you run along and fixate on Bill Clinton's schlong a little bit more, mmmkay?

[Samantha]

36. In the words of your guy George Bush*, bring it on, Ken Starr

Many of us who studied election 2000 closely and observed DC Constitutional lawyers quietly beating it down to Florida to give pro bono assistance to Jeb Bush et al. made note of those who did, and the illegal maneuvering (as well as threats) that came out of that debacle. Of those who did, some received life-time lasting rewards for coaching politicians to look into the television cameras at that critical time and threaten acts which directly violated the Constitution of the United States. Instinctively knowing that many Americans, as well as news commentators, did not have the functional knowledge of the Constitution to recognize when sheer bull was being thrown, heave it they did, at the urging of advice given by the pro bono guys.

So deliver your hell, Ken Starr, and you will find a blazing inferno roaring back at some of your guys that you will have a hard time defending.

Sam

[beac]

52. I believe it was also Duh-bya who said

"Who cares what you think?" Never thought I'd find a single useful thing in a Bush quote, but that pretty much sums up my feeling about Ken Starr.

[PBS Poll-435]

37. HA HA

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

The "elephants" are ""slightly"" in the minority at this point.









And what ***GEMS*** Alito and Roberts have been on the court...

[WinkyDink]

38. Like there just isn't enough REAL news to inform Americans about.

Why not just put cartoons on the front page?

[FarLeftRage]

40. That asshole still around?

I thought that this fuckwad was dead...

[SoCalDem]

41. Here's hoping they all stay healthy until AFTER we gain a 60 majority

in '10.. and then we can tell them all to go pound sand:)

[beac]

42. Whatsa matter, Ken? Feeling left out b/c no one's asked you to

nose around in someone else's underwear in a while?

I should think Starr would be more concerned with the "historical factoid" that he will go down in history as the man who investigated a blow job.

[Mr. Sparkle]

43. "The former independent counsel" lol . An oxymoron if i ever heard one.

[Pushed To The Left]

44. If President Obama was able to get 60 votes for the stimulus (which the right wing hated more than

anything), then 60 votes to prevent a filibuster shouldn't be a problem. The right wing screamed bloody murder when Bush's court nominees faced a filibuster, and here they are threatening the same thing. Hypocrites.

[Better Believe It]

45. Obama won't get 60 votes for EFCA and Supreme Court .... no problem, Obama only needs 51 votes

Why does the media continue to spread the myth that President Obama needs 60 Senate votes to approve legislation such as the Employee Free Choice Act and Obama nominations?

And why do well meaning DU'ers continue to spread that false media inspired myth?

[Clio the Leo]

46. Starr does realize who Obama's VP is, right?

Seriously, let them TRY to come up with something The Silver Fox didn't invent 15 years ago!

[snowbear]

47. Jonathan Turley for Supreme Court!!

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That will completely do Mr. Starr in!




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[Better Believe It]

48. Answer the Starr threat with a much more powerful threat: The Nuclear Option

If the Republicans organize a Senate floor filibuster against Obama appointments, the Democrats have the following options.

1. They can surrender to the mere threat of a filibuster and withdraw the nomination.

2. They can surrender to an actual filibuster after taking one or two quick cloture votes to give the appearance of resistance just before they withdraw the nomination rather than let a filibuster come to a conclusion.

3. Let the Republicans filibuster until the public tires of Republican obstructionism and 60 Senators finally agree to end debate and proceed with an up and down vote for Solis. All filibusters come to an end.

4. Use the so-called "nuclear option" in which the Senate simply and easily changes Senate rules which would require 51 votes to approve Obama appointments and prohibit any Republican filibuster.

So what really is the "nuclear option" which scared the crap out of Senator Reid and other Democratic Senators in 2005?

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In U.S. politics, the nuclear option is an attempt by the presiding officer of the United States Senate to end a filibuster by majority vote, as opposed to 60 senators voting to end a filibuster. Although it is not provided for in the formal rules of the Senate, the procedure is the subject of a 1957 parliamentary opinion and has been used on several occasions since. The term was coined by Senator Trent Lott (Republican of Mississippi) in 2005

The Nuclear Option is used in response to a filibuster or other dilatory tactic. A senator makes a point of order calling for an immediate vote on the measure before the body, outlining what circumstances allow for this. The presiding officer of the Senate, usually the vice president of the United States or the president pro tempore, makes a parliamentary ruling upholding the senator's point of order. The Constitution is cited at this point, since otherwise the presiding officer is bound by precedent. A supporter of the filibuster may challenge the ruling by asking, "Is the decision of the Chair to stand as the judgment of the Senate?" This is referred to as "appealing from the Chair." An opponent of the filibuster will then move to table the appeal. As tabling is non-debatable, a vote is held immediately. A simple majority decides the issue. If the appeal is successfully tabled, then the presiding officer's ruling that the filibuster is unconstitutional is thereby upheld. Thus a simple majority is able to cut off debate, and the Senate moves to a vote on the substantive issue under consideration. The effect of the nuclear option is not limited to the single question under consideration, as it would be in a cloture vote. Rather, the nuclear option effects a change in the operational rules of the Senate, so that the filibuster or dilatory tactic would thereafter be barred by the new precedent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

[FrenchieCat]

49. How many million did that Bozo cost us?

[IndianaGreen]

50. Elections have consequences, and elephants are...

nearly extinct thanks to Bush's ignoring climate change.

[RollWithIt]

51. Don't fuck with fucking Rahm.... he will straight up fucking end you....

In case you didn't fucking hear that, fuck you Repugs.

[acmavm]

53. I thought Kenny only worried about what president's did with their

genitals, not their policy decisions.

[Bake]

54. Hmmm... has Starr ever won an election? EVER?

I didn't think so. Yo, Ken: STFU!

Bake

[santamargarita]

55. Just more Right-Wing noise - these assholes love their rhetoric!

:crazy: :freak: