{"id":897,"date":"2003-11-13T11:47:53","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T18:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/four-bush-nominees-blocked63-clinton-nominees-blocked\/"},"modified":"2003-11-13T11:47:53","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T18:47:53","slug":"four-bush-nominees-blocked63-clinton-nominees-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/four-bush-nominees-blocked63-clinton-nominees-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Bush nominees blocked,63 Clinton nominees blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cnn.net\/cnn\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/11\/13\/senate.nominees\/story.bush.ap.jpg\" alt=\"Priscilla Owen -- whose nomination has been blocked by Democrats -- Janice Rogers Brown and Carolyn Kuhl. Brown and Kuhl have not yet had their names brought to the Senate floor\"\/><a title=\"CNN.com - Bush: Stop 'ugly politics' over judicial nominees - Nov. 13, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/11\/13\/senate.nominees\/\">CNN.com &#8211; Bush: Stop &#8216;ugly politics&#8217; over judicial nominees &#8211; Nov. 13, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Bush called for a stop to the &#8221;ugly politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It&#8217;s wrong and it&#8217;s shameful, and it&#8217;s hurting the system,&#8221; he told reporters. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s wrong with this picture? First, only one of these nominees has been blocked. Not depicted is William Pryor who is virulently anti-choice. See the photos of Bush signing anti-choice legislation for the true image of our theocracy. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats said that 98 percent of Bush&#8217;s nominees have been confirmed, and that the filibuster is a long-standing Senate rule to block ideological nominees who are out of the mainstream. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats also said Republicans used filibusters to block far more of President Clinton&#8217;s judicial nominations, and accuse Republicans of making a big deal of the Democratic filibusters to make the Democratic Party look bad. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, here we go, more complaining and more upset from the other side,&#8221; said Barbara Boxer, D-California, on the floor of the Senate. &#8220;<b>They just didn&#8217;t get 100 percent of what they wanted. They only got 98 percent. The score, 168 to 4.<\/b> You can print other charts, but here&#8217;s the truth.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a phony filibuster on a phony issue,&#8221; Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said Wednesday, on CNN&#8217;s Judy Woodruff&#8217;s &#8220;Inside Politics.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Leahy, the Judiciary Committee&#8217;s ranking Democrat, said <b>Republicans used Senate rules to torpedo <u>63<\/u> judicial nominations made by President Clinton<\/b>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Radical Right gets self-righteous when challenged. They contribute mightily to politics turning &#8220;ugly&#8221;. One of Bush&#8217;s greatest <strong>lies<\/strong> of the 2000 campaign was the he is &#8220;a uniter, not a divider.&#8221; BUllSHit! mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com &#8211; Bush: Stop &#8216;ugly politics&#8217; over judicial nominees &#8211; Nov. 13, 2003 President Bush called for a stop to the &#8221;ugly politics.&#8221; &#8221;It&#8217;s wrong and it&#8217;s shameful, and it&#8217;s hurting the system,&#8221; he told reporters. What&#8217;s wrong with this picture? First, only one of these nominees has been blocked. Not depicted is William Pryor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/four-bush-nominees-blocked63-clinton-nominees-blocked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Bush nominees blocked,63 Clinton nominees blocked<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}