Judging Judgemental Dems

It’s about time I weigh in on the Senate battle over the President’s judicial nominees.

Many people are too busy to really follow the dust up, so allow me to explain in plain English what’s going on.

President Bush, per the Constitution, has appointed judges to federal courts, but those appointments have been blocked by Democrats.

This is where it gets tricky. The Dems are not voting against these Judges on an up or down vote, which would be their right; oh no, what their doing is blocking the very ability to bring these judges to a vote.

They’re doing it via a filibuster. What is a filibuster?

To protect the rights of the minority party, the Senate has a rule that a senator can keep talking indefinitely (which they have no trouble doing, as long as the cameras are rolling: see Joe Biden), thereby forestalling a vote on legislation.

Key phase there: “a vote on legislation.”

The filibuster, while a senate prerogative, has been used to stall a vote on legislation.

Never before has it been used the way Democrats are now using it, to block a vote on judges.

A judicial appointment has never needed more than a 51-49 majority, until now.

To override a filibuster, you need 60 votes.

So by changing custom, the Dems have made a de facto change in senate rules.

This brings us to the so-called “nuclear option,” which simply is the plan that Republicans have to use their MAJORITY to codify in senate rules that the filibuster will allow, as always, its use against legislation, but not its never intended use against judicial appointees.

So as usual, the disintegrating Democrat party is trying to get their way by changing 225 years of precedence, not at the ballot box, but by back door chicanery.

The great thing about the Dems is they never learn.

In the 2004 elections, Democrat minority leader Tom Daschle, a man who made obstruction his trademark, became the first minority leader to lose his seat since 1952.

He’s now back in South Dakota kicking dirt.

So keep up the obstruction Dems, you’ll all have real jobs by Dec. 2006.

Taking the ACLU to Task

Well, I just received a disturbing email that said the ACLU is protesting American soldiers from praying, although I can’t vouch for its veracity, I know that is how many liberals do feel.

Fyi, what the Constitution says is our gov't can't establish a religion, or prevent the free exercise of religion.

Remember when Ol' Henry VIII was going through wives like crazy?

Well, the Catholic Church gave him the boot. His response was to banish Catholicism, and he started his own Church of England, and made it the national religion.

So what our Founding Fathers were trying to say was that the Federal Gov't can't set up a "Church of the USA." but at the same time it can't outlaw any other religion.

Funny how liberals forget that part.

So, to prohibit soldiers from praying would be a violation of their Constitutional rights.

ACLU= American Clueless Liberal Ululaters.

Jane Fonda Ruins My Night

This worthless piece of human debris should have been hung as a traitor 30 years ago, not interviewed on Larry King tonight.

Harsh hyperbole?

Not on your life.

A little history lesson for our younger readers: in the Viet Nam War we did not lose one battle on the battlefield, we lost the propaganda war.

To wit: the American media, led by the now obviously twisted left wing media broadcasts, see Walter "Papa Stalin" Cronkite and his completely eroneous reporting of the Tet Offensive as a NVC victory, when it was actually a huge failure for them.

Hello? The NVA see the TET offensive as a complete failure, yet the American media reports it as an American defeat!

How do you think that resonates on a college campus, much less a foxhole in Nam(ps. yes, I know there weren't many fox holes because of the water table)?

These are FACTS folks!

Back to Hanoi Jane..

During the war, Ms. Fonda was a very popular actress, yet she saw her way clear to go to North Viet Nam (NVA, the enemy) for a photo tour of their lovely country.

We even have pictures from one of her visits, of her sitting in a NVA anti-aircraft
battery, which had recently shot down an American pilot.

Ho Chi Min, the NVA communist leader at the time, even commented on what a great morale boost it was for his troops to have a P.R. visit from an "American" movie star.

Their morale went up, ours went down.

Jane, everybody makes mistakes, but going on a P.R. tour of the enemy's side while we're AT WAR WITH THEM, is what we call treason. Now you're on Larry King talking about your weight problems!!

That, in and of itself is worthy of hanging by virtue of banalness.

The modern day analogy would be Britteny Spears (no offense Britt) going to a terrorist camp in Iraq to entertain the troops, it helps to legitimize the enemy.

Here's what I will never, ever understand: why do rich America haters like Fonda and Alex Baldwin, who each made a fortune in America, and who love Viet Nam & Russia, repectively, don't just move to these oasis'?

According to my Merriam-Webster dictionary: treason is "the offense of attempting to overthrow the goververnment of one's country or assiting ones enenmies in war."

Hmmmmm. How about a triple neck tie party?

Where's Sean Penn?

The beauty of it is...we remove three bodies, but only one human brain.

Dem Twits Wreak Havoc

The intelligence quotient of the Democrat party continues to tumble, to wit: yesterday, I went rollerblading around the lake for the first time this year.

Now, just to set the stage, for most of the way there are two separate pathways, one for biking/blading, and one for walkers.

Add to that, every 50 yards or so, there is clearly painted on the asphalt pathway big one-way directions.

Now, these two pathways converge together at a narrow bridge at one point, where a small creek feeds another lake.

So picture a wave of walkers, bikers & bladders all funneled into the confluence that is the bridge.

It’s not perfect, but as long as everyone keeps flowing forward it works out alright.

Key concept here: “as long as everyone keeps flowing forward.”

Try and picture this, 2 twenty-something young female women decide, for whatever reason, that they can’t confined by the rules, nope, they are going to cross the bridge the wrong way.

Without going into the detail of the chaos they caused, I suffice to ask you: have you ever tried to stop on roller blades?

As rubber screeched and bodies flew, I couldn’t help notice one of the twits was wearing her Kerry/Edwards campaign shirt.

And the Dems can’t figure out why they keep losing elections.