Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
Senate Panel Approves Judge's Nomination
By NEIL A. LEWIS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to approve the judicial nomination of Charles W. Pickering Sr. and send it to the full Senate, a move that came as no surprise to anyone.
Judge Pickering, a federal trial judge in Hattiesburg, Miss., was first nominated to the federal appeals court by President Bush in 2001, but was defeated along party lines when Democrats who then controlled the committee said he had a history of racial insensitivity. Senate Republicans said he had been treated shabbily, and Mr. Bush renominated him to the same post after the Republicans regained control.
The committee session on Thursday was, at its most elemental, a replay of the complicated debate about whether and how far a white Mississippi political figure had evolved in terms of racial attitude over four decades. But the usual fragile shell of courtesy that surrounds such events had shattered.
Before the straight party-line vote of 10 to 9 in favor of the nomination, there were several heated arguments and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a freshman Republican, became moist-eyed when he accused the Democrats of irresponsibly describing Judge Pickering with the "worst possible epithet for a Southern white man," by calling him a racist.
BWAAAAAAAAHahahahahahahaahahah!
Where was this reporter sitting that he could see Lindsey become moist-eyed?
Cmon. Filibuster Pickering to death, and get rid of Lindsey for bad acting.
Posted by P6 at October 3, 2003 11:35 AM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1826I agree. Filibuster him for weeks, and ensure that the Republicans end up with a clear filibuster-breaking majority after the 04 elections.
I admire your confidence.
By the way, there's a question awaiting your response in another thread here.