A Change In Strategy
In a Washington Times article written by, Charles Hurt today entitled, Senate Democrats develop new filibuster strategy in which he describes the new strategy by Senate Democrats to filibuster Presidential nominees.
It seems that a direct filibuster is proving to be costly to Democrats which is the reason for the new tactic. This new strategy is an attempt to keep the nominees in the Judiciary Committee forever, and if passed out of there, to stall on the floor by the “non-filibuster”, (request documents forever while refusing to grant cloture) filibuster. According to Mr. Hurt’s article, qualifications are no longer important, but ideology is the most important factor to some. Here is a quote from the article:
“Mr. Schumer was asked whether Democrats would filibuster Judge Boyle if Republicans don’t produce additional unpublished opinions.
“We’ll have to see what happens,” he said. “First, we want to see if there’s a good-faith effort to get them. It is hard to get unpublished opinions.
“Second, when we get them, if there’s no smoking gun it’s not going to matter,” Mr. Schumer said. “If we think there really is a smoking gun — that we need more time to go forward — so be it.”
Mr. Hurt’s article is worth reading.
So the deal by the gang of fourteen may have all been for nothing after all. If a nominee does make it to the floor, we can only hope for Majority Leader Frist to trigger the nuclear option, and end this unconstitutional nonsense once and for all.
