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The Spectacle Blog
I just sent the following to a list of friends.
What would Reid do if the GOP pushed everything to the mat?
Just BEFORE Reid actually files for cloture, somebody — Sessions, McCain, Coburn, SOMEbody — should take the floor and not give it up. Hold it for 18 straight hours. Read the actual Constitution alive. Blast Kagan’s ethics and suggest that she pushed at least to the very borderline of perjury in her Senate testimony. Talk about how she screwed the 9/11 families. Make a big deal of it. Attract network attention to the first honest-go-goodness one-man filibuster since Al D’Amato did one in 1992. Get the public engaged.
Then, when that senator tires, force Reid to the outer time limits on Kagan AND on all other matters. Make him read the other bills pending before recess. Make him use the entire 30 hours of debate on those other bills. Make him wait the full day between filing for cloture and the actual vote on cloture. And then use ALL 30 hours of ACTUAL debate that is allowed post-cloture. Make those Dems squirm. Keep them from going home to campaign for re-election. Make them have to explain to the public all of this.
Make them explain how they support a partial-birth abortioning, 9/11 family screwing, political pamphlet-banning, First Amendment “doling,” speech “redistributing,” sharia-law supporting, foreign law promoting, gay marriage-by-judicial fiat promoting, ethically challenged, military denying/law-breaking, anti-gun-rights, natural rights denying, woefully inexperienced, Borking supporting, no-government-limiting, racial preference supporting judge who believes it is okay for a judge to “create rights” and “try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends”
Just for once, take it to the friggin mat. And see the American people rally to their cause.
UPDATED: Links added.
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Pete| 8.5.10 @ 11:12AM
That's a solid rant, Quin. I can't take issue with anything you say. The media would SCREAM about the party of NO, etc...but I think you are right that the majority of Americans would cheer. These people need to be exposed for what they are.
Charm| 8.5.10 @ 11:34AM
Indeed!
Charles Martel| 8.5.10 @ 11:48AM
The American people already have ample reason not to vote for the Democrats, but this would give us a reason to vote *for* the Republicans. Bring it on.
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Al Adab| 8.5.10 @ 11:48AM
Bork her.
Bork her.
Bork her.
Destroy this monstosity and the entire Leftist ilk. They support the rule of men not the rule of law. When will Conservatives have the courage of their convictions? Today is not too late.
Oldefarte| 8.5.10 @ 11:54AM
Quin just stated THE WHOLE TRUTH; and that is why the November elections [and forward] are so very, very important! These politicians [including Republicans] simply get too comfortable up in DC and effective ignore the will of their respective peoples/constituents. It's the DC balls, parties, social lifestyle that fogs/clouds their allegiance to their bosses back home. They do not DO THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS and therefore should be [in the shameful absense of term limits] voted against and defeated. Taking Louisiana for example-----there is no way in Godd's green earth that Democrats like Mary Landrieu [or Nebraska's Ben Nelson or Arkansas' Blanch Lincoln or SC's Lindsey Graham] accurately represent their CONSERVATIVE constituents by alleigning themselves with the likes of Nancy Pilosi or Harry Reid on national issues. Landrieu got a $350 million kickback for Louisiana in the healthcare debate issue and the her/Louisiana's reward for siding with Obama is his ludicrous placement of a oil drilling moratorium on the Gulf region that will economically cripple her state's economy. If Arkansas does not defeat/slam Lincoln for her Financial Reform and welfarecare affirmative votes, then the people of that state deserve what they'll receive going forward. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George S| 8.5.10 @ 12:17PM
What wold Democrats do if the situation were reversed? A conservative President sends the nomination of a strict originalist to a Republican senate. It is August and the Democrats know that the senate is going to change hands in November. Are they going to be quiet, going about business as usual? You think they are going to have their Lindsay Graham drawl "them thar prezeedent wan the 'lecshun and we should ruhspect that..."
Hell no, they'd be fighting tooth and nail to force that president to wait so they can get a more suitable nominee. What if the elections were held today -- how many of the Democrats looking to confirm her would be reelected? Then why should they force Kagan on us now... they don't have the will of the people on their side so filibuster or do what it takes to put off the vote until 2011.
Cincinnatius| 8.5.10 @ 12:53PM
Wonderful concept, a Republican with ba!!s! Sadly, the only part missing is a republican with ba!!s! No, republicans are all mouth and no action. They will stand by and allow this nail to be driven into the lid of the coffin as we bury the republic which was once the governmental form of the nation which used to be known as the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A better article would be a comprehensive guide to bowing and scraping for the general populace, a skill which will be greatly needed when Kagan is appointed to the SCOTUS and she assists in the agenda of "making some animals more equal than others". Sadly, the majority of Americans are too ignorant of the consequences of appointing Marxists to the court or electing them to office and they will accept the premise of "some animals are more equal than others" with little more than a few whimpers. WE don't deserve America because WE are not willing to stand and fight for her. Instead, WE are so bound up in the idea of "rule of law" that we will stand and watch while America is repeatedly raped and abused by the lawless administration and elected officials that we will not rally to her defense. WE used to be a people of action and principle....now, we are neither. Cry for the beloved country.
Sheila| 8.5.10 @ 1:12PM
Cincinnatius - well thought and well said. Prepare for Ken (Old Texican) to call you a defeatist and a whiner in 3, 2, 1 . . .
Lisa Dexter| 8.5.10 @ 1:12PM
Bravo! They are all a bunch of wimps, you are right on the money!
Mimi| 8.5.10 @ 1:31PM
Quinn you're spot on with this idea. We need Republican-spine to do what they were sent up to do.......Speak for us, and what is best for America!
This should be "The Fight Of Their Lives" and what have they got to lose...The people are behind them.
For the life of me, I can't believe they never brought up her excusing the "Plagerizing" at Harvard. Angelo Codevilla touched on it, in his now "famous" article in ..Am. Spectator. So did Rush and also the Washington Times. This Kagan incident showed: People pleasing, and lack of fairness to students, and lack of integrity...
To me this was the most show of incompetence to be on our esteemed Supreme Court of the U.S.A.
Kyle Smith| 8.5.10 @ 2:10PM
Remember when we wanted the Senate Republicans to force a full reading of the Health Care Bill that was voted on Christmas Eve? The Senate Republicans wouldn't do that, because they wanted to be home for Christmas. Supposedly, the Democrats were supposed to concede something when the Senate re-convened after Christmas Break. All we got in return was HCR passed by reconciliation.
CalMark| 8.5.10 @ 2:15PM
Oh, dear, Mr. Hillyer. How SO out of touch you are. That is NOT how things are done in Washington.
You see, in Washington it is just not considered--how do I say it?--civilized to take such a nakedly unfriendly stance against Democrats. Good, decent, noble, always right, and (to employ a slap-down to keep pesky little rightists in their place) you know it.
Collegiality, civility, propriety. At any price. Toward Democrats, that is. Toward Republicans, "anything goes." And you know it (to use that phrase again). The spineless GOP losers are simply honoring sacred tradition.
Now, be quiet and let your betters rule you. We know what's best for you. And you know it.
Bob Miller| 8.5.10 @ 3:15PM
What we need a party of no surrender.
Christopher W. Robertson| 8.6.10 @ 12:43AM
The Republicans have once again shown us that they truly stand for nothing and that they cannot be trusted to do what is in the country's interest. Sotomayor and Kagan are not interested in the liberties we have and the rights endowed to us by our Creator. The Republicans could have shown the country that they indeed have principles and values and convictions,but, alas, they did not, and, sadly, I did not expect them to rise to the occasion. The Republicans are only a Lite version of the Democratic Socialists. I will never support, not will I vote for a Republican ever again. I am not alone. Just wait and see. We will find or found a party that cherishes the gift we received, yet have laid by the wayside, from the Founders. The problem in the Republican Party is not just thehandfuls of RINOs, it's widespread. The Republican Party does not deserve your vote or support, and has a long way to go in order to show that it might ever do so. A pox on all of the Republican Senators!
SABRA| 8.9.10 @ 1:51PM
I'll take 100 more of you and a side of impeachment....