Q: Should Senate Democrats compromise on the endless stream of unacceptable nominees ?
A: Absolutely not.
That the Bush administration is so giddy with hubris and contemptuous of the other side is itself unacceptable. That they wouldn't choose new nominees is also terrible. It's a terrible choice, but filibuster is the right thing to do to prevent the marginalization of the minority this Republican putsch fights so hard for. The Republican Party is calling for the rest of us to kneel and kiss the ring, and any Democrat crossing the aisle is as guilty of treason as the opponent.
That the Senate approved Bolton's nomination is indicative of the bad behavior of the Republican Party at large. Most members of the Foreign Relations Comittee agree with me: Bolton is a dick, and he can't speak for the nation because we can't trust him to speak for himself. I watched the end of hearings on C-Span. Approval means a rubber stamp, because as one of the brain-dead enemies of our State said, the President is owed complete obedience from his lessers. Whatever he wants, including the missing $9,000,000,000.
So I say, "Do it." Filibuster these creeps. And if they change the rules of America to say the minority shall have no voice I say, "Do it." Freeze everything. Shut down the government, just like the Republicans did when Newt didn't get to sit up front with Uncle Bill in his airplane.
The Congress only functions as a tool anyway, and every piece of legislation they've generated has been another bone in my throat. Stop the mayhem. Stop the budgets. Stop the presses, we're shutting the place down.
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Interesting reference to the Gingrich Revolting. Senate Republicans hampered every action of President Clinton.
Agreeing with Anonymous -- of course the Republicans found it very convenient to block a higher percentage of Clinton's judicial nominees than what the current Dems are doing to Shrub's. But, when God and Righteousness are on your side, an obstructionist minority is a mere fly to swat. And squish.
Frist and Cheney have no respect for the traditional deliberative process of the Senate. Highly inefficient, and very effective at checking the whims of the majority, whoever it may be. As the Framers provided. If filibusters were unconstitutional as tools to hold up ANY Senate decision, they'd have been abolished long ago.
Careful what you wish for, you knuckleheads. No majority lasts forever. I can already hear the whining on the horizon, say 2012 or 2016, when President Obama sends liberal activists to the bench, and the Democratic majority slams them through with no regard to Republican objections, and no regard to the worth of any of those objections.
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