Sen. Schumer Caught On Cellphone: 'we Are Going To War' Over Supreme Court

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Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Schumer got busy plotting away on the cellphone aboard a Washington, DC-New York Amtrak -- plotting Democrat strategy for the upcoming Supreme Court battle.

Schumer promised a fight over whoever the President’s nominee was: “It's not about an individual judge… It's about how it affects the overall makeup of the court.”

The chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!

Schumer proudly declared: “We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.”

Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: “Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.”

Schumer later went on to mock the “Gang of 14” judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn’t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.

“A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.”

By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and “Gang of 14” member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.


http://drudgereport.com/flash3sca.htm

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This guy is such a scumbag.

[Bob]

The trials and tribulations of being a politician.

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No. Because it doesn't matter who Bush picks, the liberals are going to be fags about it. Bush could pick Schumer himself and some retarded Democrat would have a problem with it.

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This isn't the thread to reallyget into this, but fuck it. I run this bitch.

What exactly is wrong with Bush's ideology? You claim he's stuck in the 50s, apparently. How so? Is it because he has a solid moral base that doesn't waver with public opinion? I gather a lot of your problems with him stem from his stance on gay rights, abortion, stem cells, etc. But there are ethical reasons for his position on each of those issues. He must be doing something right to be in office until 2008.

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-Signing a report endorsing outsourcing with thousands of American workers having their jobs shipped overseas.
This is more the fault of unions that Bush's fault. And who was it that compiled this report?


-Not equipping troops in Iraq with adequate body armor or armored HUMVEES.
Not ALL troops NEED those. It's an expense issue. Had he given armored humvees to every serviceman over there, Democrats would be bitching about how much he spent. Sort of like now.


-Failing to convince NATO allies why invading Iraq was important.
Why should he have?
http://natopa.ibicenter.net/default.asp?SHORTCUT=359
Iraq has divided the UN, it has divided the EU, and it has divided NATO. Moreover, the decision to employ military force against the regime of Saddam Hussein has raised some fundamental questions over international security. NATO itself was not directly involved in the war against the Iraqi regime. The American-British-led military action in Iraq has turned out to be the most divisive issue in the NATO Alliance in recent history. This second Gulf War did not lead, as many feared, to regional chaos nor to a catastrophic scenario involving the extensive use of weapons of mass destruction. Many advocates of the war were themselves surprised by how rapidly the war was won, by how few casualties were caused, and by the fact that no biological or chemical weapons were used by Saddam - nor subsequently found. Winning the peace in Iraq and stabilizing the region, however, remains a contentious issue.[/QUOTE]


-Having no real plan for the occupation of Iraq.
Define "real plan". It's not like everyone is just sitting over there doing nothing. Infrastructure is being rebuilt, insurgency remains a problem, but we are making progress training troops, carrying out anti-insurgent operations. (Operation Lightening.)

[quote=mindy]-Allowing several members of the Bin Laden family to leave the country just days after 9/11, some of them without being questioned by the FBI.
"...142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country after Sept. 13.

The date—Sept. 13—is crucial because that is when a national ban on air traffic, for security purposes, was eased.

But nonetheless the impression that the Saudis, thanks to special treatment from the White House, were permitted to fly away when all other planes were still grounded. This false impression is created when mentioning Sept. 13, to emphasize that the ban on flights had been eased by then.

Most people fail to mention that the FBI interviewed about 30 of the Saudis before they left. And the independent 9/11 commission has reported that "each of the flights we have studied was investigated by the FBI and dealt with in a professional manner prior to its departure."


-Denying documents to the 9/11 commission, only relenting after the commissioners threatened a subpoena.
"It's possible that all the censorship was necessary to protect confidential sources, but it's also possible that at least some of the censorship was unnecessary, and was the result of the White House being overprotective of the Saudis. As I've said before, it's right to call attention to excessive Saudi influence in the U.S.; it's just wrong with many of the claims about particular issues, and is ridiculous in his claim that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were undertaken for the benefit of the Saudis."

I'll do the rest later. I hafta go get the kids.

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So mindy went to an antibush, liberal tree hugging website to get her info. None of these reasons being her ACTUAL reasoning behind her dislike for bush.


Edit:HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE DUBYA BUSH!!!!!

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-Passing tax cuts for the wealthy while falsely claiming "people in the 10 percent bracket" were benefiting most."

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/top_50__of_wage_earners_pay_96_09__of_income_taxes .Par.0008.ImageFile.jpg
Now, after looking at this illustration of who pays the most taxes, why shouldn't they be the ones to receive tax breaks?


-Breaking his campaign pledge to increase the size of Pell grants.
He made the pledge during the 2000 campaign, a lot of shit has happened since then.
"In January 2005, the Bush team hinted that the new, forthcoming federal budget may include an increase in the maximum Pell Grant. Rep. George Miller, ranking Democrat on the House Education committee, replied to CNN, "I hope President Bush is finally willing to make good on that promise.""


-Signing off on an FY 2005 budget proposing the smallest increase in education funding in nine years.
It wasn't a decrease in funding.Increased spending doesn't necessarily equal increased performance. Why not call on schools to spend more efficiently?


-Cutting grants to state and local governments in FY 2005, forcing states to make massive cuts in job training, education, housing and environment
States shouldn't depend so heavily on the federal government for local welfare programs. I feel the blame lays on the states and not the federal government for such programs.