From the DNC website-
Democrats thwarted President Bush, the Republican leadership, and the radical right wing in their attempted power grab, preserving 200 years of Senate rules.
Still continuing their lies...preserving 200 years of Senate rules? When will they stop spreading this lie? Judicial nominees have NOT been filibustered for 200 years...the first time this happened was in 1949. Are the dems unable to count? Polls showed the American people wanted these judges to get an up or down vote!! So, how do they claim they "thwarted" Bush and the radical right wing? How was this a power grab? Common decency and fairness tell us- no nominee should be blocked like this, merely because you don't like them. That's not how the Senate was set up...as a power grab by the minority to refuse to do their duty as senators!
This was unfair from the dems from the get-go, and they knew it...they wanted liberal minded nominees put up for vote, and they wanted to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct on the nominees who didn't share their ultra-radical view of abortion and other left wing causes, which Americans oppose according to the polls.
A note to John McCain- it was nice knowing you, but...you've screwed over your base too many times, and it's time that the base screws you over. I've no doubt that there will be campaigns across the country to oust you and the gutless Frist, who promised us he would get a vote on ALL the nomineesm, btu caved and only got 3. What a smashing deal, Bill!
Harry Reid is an idiot.
On the deal made with this idiot...he said that this was a defeat of the radical arm of the party (nonsense, Bush has the lowest percentage of appellate court nominees approved than any president in modern history), that Bush and others tried to "trample on the Constitution" (nonsense again, the Senate is given the task of filling judicial spots like this, and are SUPPOSED to give each nominee a vote, obstruction would not have been tolerated by the founders). He said this was a message to Bush and Cheney, because they were attempting to take absolute control (they demand a vote be given and that's absolute control?!?!!)...
These Republicans sold out the president, sold out the party, and sold out the American people.
Good luck boys...we'll all be doing everything we can to make sure you'll soon be looking for jobs. You don't sell out the president and get away with it.
I will post more later...along with contact info. for all the turncoats who approved this deal.