Bush, Dems Reach Deal on Appointments

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/8694782.htm

WASHINGTON - Breaking a months-long impasse, the White House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday struck a deal allowing Senate confirmation of dozens of President Bush's judicial nominations in exchange for a presidential promise not to bypass the Senate again this year.

Under the agreement, Democrats will allow votes on 25 non-controversial appointments to the district and appeals courts. In exchange, Bush agreed not to invoke his constitutional power to make recess appointments while Congress is away, as he has done twice in recent months with judicial nominees.

Owen, Kuhl, Brown and other judicial nominees Democrats found objectionable are not part of the impending deal, Daschle said. White House nominees for positions outside the federal courts also are not part of the deal.




I think this may be a rare win for the Dems….though a part of me still wants to say fuckem….

Any takers?

a lier!!!

He will make them.

I just wonder how long it'll be before he breaks this "agreement", too.

Repukes are all scum - never trust them!

is like making a deal with the Devil.

Why in the world would any Dem trust what Bush says? They will be bitten watch and see.

A young maiden was on her way to do the milking on a very cold morning. Lo, she spied a snake that had been frozen stiff! Seeing that he was a beautiful creature, she brought him into the house and placed him by the fireside until he revived.

Filled with joy, she clasped the snake to her bosom--whereupon he sunk his fangs into her flesh and filled her with his venom.

With her dying breath(s), she cried, "Why? Why do you treat me so when I saved you from a frozen death?"

To which the serpent replied, "Bitch, I'm a snake. That's what we do!"

:evilgrin:
dbt

BTW, one of us is a sick puppy. Wanna flip for it?

:evilgrin:
dbt

On her way to work one morning
Down the path along side the lake
A tender hearted woman saw a poor half frozen snake.
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew.
"Poor thing," she cried, "I'll take you in and I'll take care of you."
"Take me in, tender woman,
Take me in, for heaven's sake.
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake.

She wrapped him all cozy
In a comforter of silk
And laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk.
She hurried home from work that night and soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she'd taken to had been revived.
"Take me in, tender woman,
Take me in, for heaven's sake.
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake.

She clutched him to her bosom.
"You're so beautiful," she cried,
"But if I hadn't brought you in by now you might have died."
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight.
Instead of saying thanks, the snake gave her a vicious bite.
"Take me in, tender woman,
Take me in, for heaven's sake.
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake.

"I saved you!" cried the woman.
"And you've bitten me, but why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die!"
"Oh, shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin:
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in!"
"Take me in, tender woman,
Take me in, for heaven's sake.
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake.

The song was written by: OSCAR BROWN JR...recored Jan. 1962 the album is Sin & Soul...Columbia Records

I know Al Wilson had a hit with it on Soul City Records in 1968.

THE Al Wilson who had a huge hit in the 70s with "Show and Tell"?

Show and Tell
That's the Game I Play
When I Want to Say
"I Love You"

I Want You to
Show Me and Tell Me
That You Feel
The Same Way, Too

The comparison above with Lou Rawls was a good one, I think.

"You knew I was a snake when you picked me up."

I have two pet snakes, and they have more integrity in their little forked tongues than Bush and his whole flotilla of liars and murders have in their putrid bodies. :)

As far as I know, ther's no way to hold him to it! There's no honor amoung thieves.

However....it's still a Dem win if they handle it right.

Keep it on the front burner and YELL IT from every mic in the world if Shrub doesn't comply.

Annouce NOW how wrong the Pubs are when they accuse the Dems of obstructionism....see this is what we did!

We know HOW to unify the Country!

He gets what he wants and we get a promise that he won't fuck the american people in the way he did last time, sounds like a bully deal to me.

Doesn't the mafia work in a similar way?

Welcome to DU!!! :hi:

I'm glad you're here!!!

I'm sure Bush will keep his promise, especially when it becomes obvious he his going to lose in November.

Gee, Dems, what're you gonna due when he welshes? And he will. Say "no fair?"

Bookmark this thread so when it happens we can all pat ourselves on the back as great prognosticators!!

and scraping to these criminals. Do they have
spinal problems?

you can't trust these folks...They lie to everyone about everything!
And if the votes doesn't go in favor of all his appointments, katy-bar-the-door!


(BTW - I'd forgotten about that song. Brings back great memories!)

The * appointments are for LIFE; a recess appointment ends in a short, finite period.

Daschle, thanks for NOTHING. Moron.

Tansy Gold, angry AND embarrassed

So Bush gets to stack our courts and maintiain his right-wing policies for the next 40 years.

Daschle needs to be kicked out immediately before he does any more damage.

Has got to go. I recall Cleland Jean Carnahan being promised the'd be not tatgeted if they voted for Bush's budget>Point made.

Aren't they all a bunch of fascist Federalist Society ideologues?

Just like the repukes to throw Pickering, Owen, etc. to the wolves (and later use an underhanded trick to rescue Pickering!) while opening the floodgates to boatloads of slightly less obnoxious Federalist clones.

Around 2002, everyone on DU seemed to be screaming "But we gotta save the courts!" at every minute scrap of criticism leveled at a Dem. And I knew at the time it was crap, because ... well, y'all know the Bush-Gore 5, right? All of them were either unopposed by Democrats (unanimous votes) or passed by a Democratic margin (i.e. the Dems had the numbers to block them).

The party's made bloodless milquetoasts the ideal. Wouldn't want to look too "red meat". Yessir, we'll stick to the solid foundation of gentility and compromise that won over all those voters in landslide numbers in 2002 ...

liberal dem here sir. Problem with that?

Sounds like the same bullshit most of the Dems "fell for" (and I'm not sure I buy that argument) during the IWR debate.

HELLO! Anybody home, Dems? He broke his word before, according to those who excuse the Dems' pro-IWR votes, and yet you're going to make a deal with a traitor and proven liar?

Daschle needs to step down. He is no opposition. Just rolls over. Disgusting.

the dems shouldnt have caved in anyways. that was complete crap that he made those recess appointments...we could have filibustered everyone of those 25 to make him pay for that if they wanted....

we caved. again.

to do with it? (From the archives.)

Frist finger on ‘nuclear’ button


http://www.thehill.com/news/051304/frist.aspx

Senate Republican leaders are considering rewriting the chamber’s rules to limit what they call Democratic obstructionism that has slowed the pace of work in the Senate to a trickle.

In particular, Republicans want to eliminate the ability of Democrats to filibuster consideration of the president’s executive and judicial-branch nominees, as well as bar filibusters that block the naming of conferees prior to House and Senate negotiations.

To do so, Senate GOP leaders are considering resorting to what they call the “constitutional option” and what Democrats deride as the “nuclear option” because they charge it would amount to a Republican declaration of all-out war against them.

Republicans say they must take drastic action because Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has put a freeze on all judicial branch nominees and has vowed to allow conferences to go forward only on a case-by-case basis.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=551095

they are letting through?

Notice that Daschle assures us that "Owen, Kuhl, Brown and other judicial nominees Democrats found objectionable are not part of the impending deal."

After the large group of nominees are voted on and confirmed, Bush* will send up one of the wing-nuts and the Dems will object. After much flapping around, they will fillibuster the nomination. The Repugs will use the echo chamber to advance the meme that it's the Dems who are breaking the agreement. (They will say that Daschle was wrong about those disputed nominees being included and that there was never any deal about them. They'll say, "Daschle said that. WE never said anything about that."

Then Bush will recess appoint the wing-nuts. Voila! He gets everything he wants, and the Dems will be left sputtering.

How many kicks to the head to they have to suffer before they understand that Dubya is a LIAR?