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QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 08:31 AM) The liberal media at MSNBC covered the Alito hearings and their analysis consisted of Pat Buchanan and a bunch of former RNC hacks. There wasn't a single democrat represented in their four hour coverage of the Alito hearings on Monday. But yeah, liberal media I guess. Nobody watches MSNBC. How about the Today show. They had Begala and Carville ( DNC hacks) on this morning. Does that count?

Joe Biden= 3673 words. Judge Alito= 1013 words. No excuses for not knowing what the Judge thinks about a particular subject. If I remember correctly, Biden did the same thing with CJ Roberts.

Racetrack 2006 NYC Events Calendar Polls UE Members About UE Search Hillary Behind Kavanaugh Obstruction It is being confirmed that Hillary has tried to pull a gigantic behind-the-scenes deception into the blocked nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Nine days ago Hillary's camp denied it was the anonymous Senator blocking his appointment. But now it has been revealed she pulled the strings of the Senator who did block Kavanaugh. From John Fund's Political Diary: Senate Democrats are threatening to delay the confirmation vote for Samuel Alito as long as possible, though they are unlikely to be able to sustain a veto in the highly visible Supreme Court contest. For lower-level judicial nominations, however, Democrats are less bashful about resorting to extreme shenanigans to block appointees. With one nominee, Bush White House aide Brett Kavanaugh, who has been named to the Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington D.C., the petty tactics are being orchestrated behind the scenes by none other than Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. When the Bush White House asked that all judicial nominees who had not been acted upon in the 2005 session of Congress be carried over to the 2006 calendar, a normally routine procedure, Mr. Kavanaugh was not included thanks to objections raised by a single anonymous Senator. His nomination thus lapsed and will have to be resubmitted, a tedious procedure that will further delay its consideration. Quin Hillyer of the Mobile Register reports that both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have told him that "the objection, and a long-running 'hold' on the Kavanaugh nomination, were effected by another Democratic senator at the direct request of Sen. Clinton -- who apparently wants to be able to deny formal culpability for the parliamentary maneuvers." Her motivation is clear. Back in 1998 and 1999, Mr. Kavanaugh was an aide to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, whose investigation of the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals led directly to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Senator Clinton has frequently allowed grudges from that era to affect her behavior. When Viet Dinh and Michael Chertoff (now the Secretary of Homeland Security) were confirmed for top jobs in the Bush Justice Department in 2001, the vote was unanimous -- save for Senator Clinton, who voted no. Both men had been active in the investigations of her husband. The irony is that Mr. Kavanaugh, like Messrs. Dinh and Chertoff, is no blind Clinton-hater. The Washington Post's Bob Woodward reported in his book on the Clinton impeachment that Mr. Kavanaugh used his junior position on Ken Starr's team to urge him not to load up his report on the Lewinsky scandal with sexual detail. He also helped draft the report that shot down the most feverish conspiracy theories surrounding the suicide of White House deputy Vincent Foster. Mr. Kavanaugh, who has clerked for two top appeals court judges as well as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, is thus being blocked from fair consideration for no other reason than Senatorial pique. Given Mrs. Clinton's fervent desire to adjust her image in a more "moderate" direction, let's hope her extreme tactics against Mr. Kavanaugh merit some attention from the media as it turns its focus on judicial politics this week. From the NY Sun on Dec 30: A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, dismissed the suggestion that the New York Democrat objected to Mr. Kavanaugh’s nomination. Asked in an e-mail yesterday whether Mrs. Clinton had anything at all to do with the nomination being sent back to the White House, Mr. Reines replied simply: “No.” Here is the Mobile Register story on Jan. 7 that Fund mentioned above, plus additional commentary: Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton's tendency toward vindictiveness has gone unremarked upon by the East Coast media. For instance, when now-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was approved for a federal judgeship several years back, Sen. Clinton was the only senator to vote against him. She apparently was still angry at Mr. Chertoff's role as lead counsel of an earlier investigation into various Clinton scandals -- even though that investigation as a whole, and Mr. Chertoff in particular, earned bipartisan praise for not going overboard. Now Sen. Clinton is pulling an even stronger stunt against Mr. Kavanaugh -- but the big media have responded with a big yawn. Yet back in 1997 when conservative Sen. Jesse Helms pulled a similar stunt against GOP Gov. William Weld of Massachusetts, who was nominated to an ambassadorship, the media went wild for weeks. Nominations to the second highest court in the land deserve close attention and great respect. Sen. Clinton instead has disrespected Mr. Kavanaugh and the entire process, while denying him any formal consideration -- but the big media haven't called her on the carpet for it.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 03:01 PM) I understnad what you're saying in that it's just 1 justice being replaced here, but when the court is basically sitting 4-4 with a notorious swing vote in the middle...replacing that swing vote with a person from either side could very well produce a massive ideological shift. Kennedy is not a conservative. If anything, the court is now 4 Libs 3 Cons 2 moderates to Cons. With his confirmation the Court will be 4-4-1 to 5-4 Cons. Kennedy is not a lock to vote in step with the conservatives on the Court. One more nomination and bush con cement his legacy on the Court for the next 15 years. Hopefully, Ginsburg or Stephens steps down in the next 3 years. I am putting my money on Stephens. The guy is 85 yrs. old. Do we want his clerks writing his opinions or do we want the man who was confirmed to write his own opinions. The former is what happened to Thurgood Marshall before he stepped down.

Every time Durbin speaks it makes me wonder how this guy was elected to represent me in the Senate. He is one of the biggest buffoons in Congress.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 01:02 PM) I have to say this much. The first 12 of the Senate Judiciary Committee have given their opening statements. Of those 12, two democratic senatorsa impressed me, Fiengold and Biden. On the other hand, Kennedy's a moron. Just wondering, who will explode first: Hastert or Ted Kennedy?

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 12:20 AM) Amazing how much racism and hatred there is among fellow soxtalkers. How is stating a fact racism? And if that statement is racist, then all the news channels that reported the opposite to be true must be racists. Right. Get a clue.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 08:55 PM) http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?Res...xt=murtha+moran The C-span video is here, but is shows an exchange between Murtha/Moran (the Senator sponsoring Murtha's town hall forum) and a recently returned vet who took him to task with some of his statements. Murtha then chose to go on to the next question without really saying anything. I believe the exchange is at the 34:30 point in the video. Text of the exchange is : After that, Murtha was speechless while Moran simpy moved on to the next question Just watched clip of Seavey taking Murtha and Moran to the woodshed. The only thing Moron could say was: That was not a question, it was a statement. Next question. And the Dems wonder why they are perceived to have no credibility. The truth hurts. I'm sure you will see this exchange played by the MSM. But if it was a protester confronting Bush, you can bet your ass that CBS,NBC,ABC,CNN,MSNBC,PBS,MATTHEWS,and OLBERMAN would lead with the story. :puke :puke :puke

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 10:56 AM) http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/ninth.ward/index.html If people who choose to live in areas that suffer from natural disasters bought insurance to protect themselves from said disasters, we would not be having conversations about how to rebuild New Orleans. But i guess that would mean taking some responsibility for your actions.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 03:29 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/ninth.ward/index.html My patience with these people is totally gone. Homes are clear off their foundation and laying in the middle of the street or covered from floor to ceiling with mold and crud and filth or both and these f***ing idiots are suing to stop the city from demolishing them calling it a "conspiracy". f***ing stupid people. You know why you're not getting any insurance? Because you stupid assholes are holding things up with your lawsuits to save homes that will never be habitable ever again!!!!! I no longer give 2 s***s about the people who live there and I no longer care that they lost everything. Im sick of hearing about conspiracy's, blown up levees and the white man keeping black people down. The white man doesn't have to do anything to keep certain black people down. They do a good enough job of that themselves. Idiots! White deaths in the 9th ward exceeded black deaths.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 01:48 PM) It's interesting, this article talks about many of the things we've discussed here regarding Dem leadership. How the Dems seem to have a big gaping whole to drive through with Bush beaten down and his party fractured, but they just don't seem to have the leadership to punch through. That is because democrat and leadership are oxymorons.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 11:47 AM) If Stalin was on display, people would come. Just saying, he's the Prez, of course he gets tons of attention. I dislike most of his body of work quite a bit, but you bet I'd love to meet him. Stay in your own room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 11:56 AM) There are plenty of examples of the NSA Spying on Americans inside the country...but using FISA warrants. No examples have been leaked yet of the NSA using Bush's program allowing for spying without FISA warrants, although there have been rumors that NBC and other networks have been looking into possible spying on Journalists (i.e. Christianne Amanpour). Aside from that, we don't have a clue who it's been directed at. Is she based in the USA?

For s***s and giggles. Does anyone have any specific examples of NSA spying on Americans inside of the country. Or hasn't that been leaked yet. It seems were taking the word of the unbiased NYT with no evidence of specifics. Help me out here.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 07:40 AM) I was looking at some murder stats and it seems plus or minus 18,000 people are murdered each year in America. How about publishing that story like they do the Iraq totals? That works out to about 50 per day. Are you including the number of babies murdered via abortion in that figure?

QUOTE(Balance @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 10:02 AM) Someone, quick! Bring him a bag of pretzels! EDIT: For all of you Secret Service people reading this message, it's a joke. Wow 2 original jokes in a row.

Pres just entered Board of Trade. Traffic is crazy. For so many people not liking you, he sure does have a lot of people curious to see what he looks like.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 09:57 AM) You know what I hate. Illinois Nazis LMFAO!!!

QUOTE(THEWOOD @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 10:41 PM) Mortons but that is a given....I also really like the steaks at Keefers and Blue Water Grille. Lonestar has good steaks on the cheap. I have never eaten at Ruth Chris, but I did hear they soaked them in tons of butter. One good thing about Ruth's Chris; if they undercook your steak, the plate they serve it on could melt iron. Oh, and the butter does the job.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 05:38 AM) Yeah I heard on the news that he may not make it through surgery, and his chances of surviving aren't good. I just read that Sharon has been declared clinically dead.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 02:41 PM) Hardly. If you are speaking of Ruth's Chris in Cancun, I ate there and thought it was great. Just like in Chicago. Give It another try.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 01:09 PM) I used to like Ruth Chris.. but had a bad experience in Mexico and can't get past trying them again. There really are so many good steak places out there. Thats like eating chinese in ITALY

QUOTE(3E8 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 12:22 PM) Gibson's Would not go back. I do not know why they ask you how you would like your steak cooked, because it seems like they cook every steak to medium. I like Morton's Ruth's Chris and On the cheaper end costwise but not quality wise Golden Steer in Forest Park.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 02:34 PM) Add Perry Como to that list. The best Christmas cd is The Ray Coniff Orchestra.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 30, 2005 -> 12:12 PM) They are selling something different than O'Reilly. They are selling passion and ownership in what its fans see as a "movement." You may call it pathetic, I call it - and most bottom line folk in the communications industry see it as "maximizing revenue." Sounds like MOVEON.ORG for the radio.