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Sailor in the Desert
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 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:55 am Post subject: Robert (KKK) Byrd says................ |
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Here is some thing to ponder:
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The Byrd Option--II
He says the Senate doesn't have to vote on judges, so the GOP should mail it in.
Sunday, April 3, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST
Robert Byrd is an expert on Senate rules and procedures, on which he has written a four-volume history. So we paid notice when a friend called our attention to the West Virginia Democrat's latest pronouncement on the confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominees.
Shortly before Congress recessed for Easter vacation, here's what the Senator said on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes": "The President is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
As the Senator says, Article II of the Constitution is silent on how the Senate shall exercise its "advice and consent" power in confirming judicial nominees. For more than 200 years, however, that body has interpreted the Founders' injunction to mean that a simple majority of Senators--51 in our age--must vote to confirm. That's why we cried foul in President Bush's first term when Democrats filibustered 10 appeals-court nominees, thereby denying them an up-or-down vote on the floor--even though every candidate had the support of a bipartisan majority. A vote to end a filibuster requires a super-majority of 60 Senators.
But now that Senator Byrd has expressed the view that the Senate doesn't have to vote at all, here's a better idea for ending the impasse over judicial nominations: Fifty-one of the 55 Republican Senators can simply send the President a letter expressing their support for his candidates. Under Mr. Byrd's Constitutional analysis, the Senate will have exercised "advice and consent" and the judges will be confirmed.
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I can hear the whining and gnashing of teeth from the leftists on this one. I wonder if Frist will go with it?
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Hooboy! Can't you just imagine taking Mr. Grand-Dragon's words and using them against his purposes?
What a hoot! I would just friggin' LOVE it! 
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Sailor in the Desert
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| Navy_Navy_Navy wrote: | Hooboy! Can't you just imagine taking Mr. Grand-Dragon's words and using them against his purposes?
What a hoot! I would just friggin' LOVE it! |
Imagine the quandry the left and MSM would be in. After all, it was their favorite Klansman that started that ball rolling!
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