Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had earlier tried to portray himself as being open-minded and nonideological about President Bush’s Supreme Court nominations. Forget that. His announced opposition to John Roberts smacks of partisan pandering. After all, as Washington Post columnist David Broder noted, Roberts is “ridiculously well equipped to lead the third branch of government.” In contrast, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced Wednesday that he would vote for Roberts.
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Leahy’s for Roberts? Maybe need to re-consider this whole deal. Bet with a lot of hard work, Roberts can overcome that Leahy endorsement.
Jiminy,
Go Cheney yourself! ;|
As for Senator Reid, give ‘em hell Harry! Nobody owes John Roberts anything; nor do they owe George Bush anything.
A question: in those interviews with W and President Rove, does anybody REALLY believe that Roberts wasn’t pressed to say how he’d rule on a possible abortion case? Does anyone REALLY think W and President Rove would have nominated him if there were any chance that he’d be like Souter and change once he got on the Court? Give me a break.
Knowing what we know about President Rove, the extraction of loyalty and political payback, any Democrat would be a fool to vote for a political operative like Roberts–Leahy included.
Jeez, give it a break. Everybody isn’t going to vote for Roberts. Does anybody think he’s not going to get the job? I can see not voting for him just because he’s a republican. What more reason does Reid need? You go, Harry!
That’s the difference between Dems and Reps.
Dems can actually differ on important issues and say what they think.
Repubs just rubber stamp whatever President Cuckoo-bananas tells them to . . .
Heh.
President Cuckoo-bananas!? Awesome nick-name. Let’s run with that one.I think he is worse that Cuckoo-bananas. He would have to be to let himself be Cheney’s and Rove’s bitch.
LOL! Reid! I thought Bush was bad, but Reid takes the cake. What a blow hard!
Democrats? You can have him!
Kudos to Senator Reid. Shame on “Senator” leahy.
I’m sick and tired of democrats trying to pay diplomacy with the right. bush sent 9 appointees who were rejected by a more balanced Senate. Once he got a few more “senators” bush sent the same 9 back again! You can’t negotiate with people like this!You watch and see; let bush do this and his next appointee is gonna be far far worse.
JR. Only problem is Roberts is qaulified. Meaning to oppose him would only be on political partisan gounds. Which is a Democrat favorite anyways.
Anyways! Congress is about compromise and dipolmacy. What do you expect?
My guess is Harry got a Nasty-Gram from NAMBLA and Code Pink telling him to toe the line or-else.
I see Reid losing re-election his next go around. He is an embarrasment to Nevada.
Joe,
As the poll numbers in the link below indicate, the voters of Nevada think you’re all wet.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/May-17-Tue-2005/photos/reidpoll.gif
Oh, and Heckler, about that NAMBLA slander: Harry Reid has no relationship to NAMBLA.
And seeing as how the ****-sucking man-whore Jeff Gannon was a registered Republican and a political operative for Karl Rove (and probably something else besides, wink wink, nod nod), I’d be careful about accusing Democrats of indecency if I were you.
CF
I didn’t say Reid has or had anything to do with NAMBLA. That doesnt mean they don’t send Nasty-Grams to him. Nor did I accuse him of anything indescent.
I was just making a cheap shot at Democrats in general, the point being that they can’t be seen in public with many of the special interest groups that pressure them.
Who’s Jeff Gannon, is he an associate of yours? Not that it matters or there would be anything wrong with that.
Ha ha ha! That last one was pretty funny, Heckler.
But I must say that as an organization, NAMBLA (the North American Man/Boy Love Association) is more compatible with a libertarian world view than a liberal one. And I hardly see anyone in the Democratic leadership running away from gay rights groups.
FYI, Jeff Gannon is a ‘reporter’ from a false front, right wing news agency named Talon News. He’s also a gay male escort, as his online ads demonstrate. For reason that no one can quite fathom, he had a White House press pass for over a year. According to the results of an FOIA request, he also appears to have stayed overnight at the White House a couple of dozen times. His cover was finally blown (as it were) when he asked a softball question of W during a Presidential news conference. He was obviously a plant, and it seems that he has ties to Karl Rove, though the media was inexpliably (or not so inexplicably) reluctant to follow up on the story.
All of which has little or nothing to do with Harry Reid. I must say, though, that with a gastropod like Karl Rove sliming around, it is amusing to hear Philip bemoan Reid’s perceived ‘partisan pandering.’
CF. You probably better find a better article than that. It shows 51% of the State disapprove of Senators Ried action. Plus his numbers doesn’t really show a very strong likely to him.
Anyways, the only polls that count is on election day. And the liberals lost their precious Daschle, who you guys thought was iron clad strong.
Reid has so many scandles and nepotisim with his sons getting all of these lobbyist money. It is a matter of time. They put up a strong Democrat against him the primaries or a Republican, and you can say bye bye to Reid.
Dream on, Joe Williams.
No one thought Daschle was very strong. I detested him. Reid’s a survivor and a fighter. And he has the benefit of being from a far more diverse state that can go Democratic.
The article says that 55% of voters either strongly approve or approve of Reid–and the poll was taken right after the nuclear option compromise. He’s in a plenty strong position. And as a Democrat, I think he’s done a hell of a job playing a very limited hand.
The fact that everyone is bitching about him is proof of that.
For being “non-partisan,” “independent,” and “your own man,” Joe W, you sure have the aggressive dem-bashing thing down, don’t you?
Our party isn’t perfect or even pretty, but we don’t do the ugly things to the country the Repubs (of whom I’ve never heard you criticise) do.
You say you didn’t vote for W. last time. Did you vote for Kerry or did you just not vote?
Nope Galahad. Believe it or not, there are other parties besides Republican and Democrats.
I actually voted for Nader! Both times!
Joe, In other words, you voted for Bush.
Jed! Only a liberal has that thinking.
I voted for Nader! Last I check, they were seperate individuals.
Ah, okay, JoeW. That explains a few things.
Nader, the man who has never held office and ran for president. The man who won’t dirty his hands by actually working within a party but stands aloof and becomes a spoiler. The man who took mucho dinero from conservative Republicans because they knew he’d pull votes from the Democrats.
But when you live in Kansas, it hardly makes any difference who you vote for, for President. With the electoral college system, all 6 electoral votes are going to go Republican anyway.