February 5, 2003
ABORTION UBER LATINOS:
Democrats Plan Filibuster of Estrada Nomination (FOX News, February 05, 2003)Democratic lawmakers will attempt to filibuster the nomination of Miguel Estrada for Washington's U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals before a vote on his confirmation Wednesday, sources close to the Democrats' game plan told Fox News.Sources said Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee -- including Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking member, and Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Edwards of North Carolina, Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Dianne Feinstein of California and Charles Schumer of New York -- met with Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota and his whip, Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, last week to come up with the Democratic strategy for the upcoming floor battle. [...]
One new tactic is Kennedy's assertion that Estrada has "serious temperament problems," a claim that hasn't previously been made. On Wednesday, Kennedy told his Democratic colleagues that members of the Hispanic caucus and other Latino leaders see Estrada as not being "even-tempered" and having a "short fuse."
One influential Hispanic who heard the remarks told Fox News that he found Kennedy's comments "offensive" and "racist." A GOP source, added: "They're trying to make him into Ricky Ricardo."
It's official: abortion on demand is the only coherent idea driving the modern Democratic Party and they are even ready to resort to racist smears to prevent what they fear may be the 5th vote on the Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
UPDATE:
A PARTY, A PLAN, NARAL:
Democrats hit for lack of own plan on budget (James G. Lakely, 2/05/03, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
White House budget chief Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. yesterday challenged Democrats to come up with their own budget plan, instead of just criticizing President Bush's $2.2 trillion budget as irresponsible."For all the speeches I hear when I come here, I never hear a plan different than the one the president proposes," Mr. Daniels said, testifying before the House Budget Committee. "And I am still waiting to hear which of the things he wants to do, given the situation we are facing, do you believe are unwise? It's a legitimate debate, but let's have it."
In a late afternoon press release, the office of House Minority Leader offered the Democrats budget plan: Abortion on demand. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 5, 2003 2:49 PM
A filibuster would be so unbelievably dumb that I have a hard time believing that even Ted Kennedy would seriously consider it.
Posted by: David Cohen at February 5, 2003 3:27 PMIn response to the post: Duh?
In response to Mr. Cohen: Nothing
is so unbelievably dumb that Teddy wouldn't seriously consider it.
I think Estrada would only be the 4th vote since Byron White's retired from the court several years ago.
Posted by: Tom at February 5, 2003 4:48 PMOrrin:
Peggy Noonan
had the same observation as you a couple of weeks ago:
"Abortion is now the glue that holds the Democratic Party together. Without abortion to keep them together, the Democrats would fly apart into 50 small parties . . .
"No party can long endure, or could possibly flourish, with the unfettered killing of young humans as the thing that holds it together. And so a prediction on this grim anniversary: Someday years from now we will see abortion's final victim, and it will turn out to be the once-great Democratic Party, which was left at the end deformed, bloody and desperately trying to kick away from death, but unable to save itself."
"Temperament problem"?
That means they can't find anything real to object to with the guy.
Lemme get this straight-- the Democrats need a fairly strong "hispanic" voting block to survive, and is going to oppose an "hispanic" judicial candidate because he holds views held by many, if not a majority, of that voting block. Either they figure hispanics are stupid and will continue vote as a block, or not as valuable as other blocks, like the NARALs.
The only response to the filibuster threat is "bring in on". It's the last resort of the desperate, just like the Dixiecrats who were ist's last users.
The more the Democrats show their contempt for their base, the more irrelevant they will become.
Christopher - Ordinarily, I'd agree with you. But Ted Kennedy has never been accused of not looking out for himself and his party. Threatening a filibuster will play well with the NARAL base, but actually filibustering would be either suicidal self-sacrifice (not a typical description of EMK) or an admission that the Democrats don't expect there to be another Democratic president in their lifetime (except in Schumer's case, in which its prophylaxis against a Rudy Guliani senatorial campaign).
Posted by: David Cohen at February 5, 2003 5:50 PM