No Compromise
In an E-Mail sent out on Monday by Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the RNC, he asked for a petition to be signed. The petition was to ask all Senators to support Majority Leader Frist’s compromise. We did not sign the petition, because we don’t want a compromise.
Several articles in blogs, and newspapers have mentioned Senate Minority Harry Reid’s statement yesterday found here, which includes the following:
” This fight is not about seven radical nominees; it’s about clearing the way for a Supreme Court nominee who only needs 51 votes, instead of 60 votes. They want a Clarence Thomas, not a Sandra Day O’Connor or Anthony Kennedy or David Souter.”
That’s the first completely honest statement ever spoken from Senator Reid, and that is indeed the whole point. If we are to expect a constitutional up or down vote on a Supreme Court Nominee, the filibustering of all judicial nominees has to stop now.
Our thanks to Daly Thoughts for the link to the The New Hampshire Union Leader which has an editorial today entitled, Primary voters will be watching, which states the following:
” PRESIDENT BUSH and U.S. Senate Republicans have the far better case in the matter of Democrats refusing to allow judges to be voted on in a straightforward, up-or-down fashion. The problem is that Republicans aren’t very good at public relations “spin” — and the Democrats have a ready ally in much of Big Media.
But if the Republicans don’t wise up and have the guts to stop the Democrats’ current misuse of the filibuster, they will find that a President Hillary Clinton and her pals will have no such problem in suddenly “discovering” that the Founding Fathers never intended judges or other Presidential appointments to be blocked in this manner.
The filibuster — the rules of which have in fact been changed (by Democrats) over the years — has been used and was intended to be used to slow or block legislation. Sometimes, it has been used disgracefully so. Civil rights legislation was blocked for decades by anti-black Southern senators.
But only when George Bush came to office four years ago did Democrats in the Senate use the threat of filibuster to block judicial nominations from getting before the full Senate for a simple majority vote.
This has to be one of the great and most shameless legal loophole flimflams in our history. With courts being overrun by judicial activists, the voters’ only recourse is to elect a President and Senate that will appoint judges who won’t try to re-make the law.
To let a small group of extremist Democrats block even a vote on those appointments with this legalistic trick is outrageous. We are quite sure the Presidential Primary voters of New Hampshire will be watching carefully to see how Republican senators act on this crucial matter. “
We couldn’t agree more!
The Judicial Confirmation Network has a full blown “action alert” out to contact your Senators about this important issue.
Confirm Them, has just published a story via Southern Appeal, stating the battle over judicial nominees will begin next week.
So if you haven’t contacted your Senators, now would be a good time to start. Just use the link above and click on your state. If you have already contacted your Senators, contact the wobbly ones, as Hugh Hewitt writes:
“So the focus has to be on Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Senator Susan Collins of Maine. The former has presidential ambitions, the latter leadership ambitions. Both need to hear from GOP supporters that neither set of ambitions can be expected to become reality if the senator abandons the Constitution and the party on this issue. Call their offices via the switchboard at 202-225-3121, and go to BeyondTheNews.com to send e-mails to them, their staffs, and the other GOP wobblies.”
If we want a constitutional up or down floor vote on Supreme Court nominees, the battle must be fought and won here.
