Three more and you get a free ham.

JeffC correct on history--- LBJ was the first President to face a filibuster of a SCt nominee. Some have attempted to label Rutherford B. Hayes as the first, but the cloture rule did not exist. JeffC is right-- this is the process and his history is correct. I would concur.

However, I would agree with Fred Garvin as well. President Obama is being intellectually dishonest with America. He proposes a statesmen-like review of Supreme Court nominations in a very lofty manner, revealing his target fixation on his legacy. The fact is that his very short Senate service included a bareknuckled filibuster and the rules of the Senate allow for that. It is a good process. But don't now stand in the Rose Garden espousing a higher, more noble standard when you were just months before down in the mud wrestling with the pigs.

The filibuster is allowed. It is good. Senate review of nominees by the President is a vital and precious check provided for under the Constitution. BTW--- I agree on the Bork comments. When Bork was willing to fire Archibald Cox as Nixon demanded (after statesman Elliott Richardson refused) Bork disqualified himself for office.

Our ECONOMIC SECURITY of our Childrens FUTURE.. Our basic FREEDOMS..and the take over of our Businesses by the Goverment then YES..
"To the victor goes the spoils."

See I knew we would find something to disagree on... Life is back to normal...***sigh***

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS..

GUN CONTROL Link

I didn't notice your complaints when Bush added $5 trillion in debt or took over AIG and Citigroup or the Goldman Sachs bailout or the Bear Stearns bailout or expanded the wiretaps without judicial review or the “sneak and peek” searches without a warrant showing probable cause or Ashcroft's authorizing the monitoring of attorney-client conversations or the suspension of Habeas Corpus or ......

Back to normal. I feel better.

That one got by me.

It's the entire Obama administration and most of the liberal left that are the Neo-Marxists.

In fact Pravda said "... the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed..." Pravda May 2009

"American capitalism gone with a whimper"
Pravda June 2009

The problem is too many are too close minded and too blinded by 'FALSE HOPE' to recognize what is happening. By the time the diva's of the world wake up it will be too late.

Definition, from Wikipedia:

Neo-Marxism is a loose term for various twentieth-century approaches that amend or extend Marxism and Marxist theory, usually by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions, such as: critical theory, which incorporates psychoanalysis; Erik Olin Wright's theory of contradictory class locations, which incorporates Weberian sociology; and critical criminology, which incorporates anarchism.[1] As with many uses of the prefix neo-, many theorists and groups designated as neo-Marxist have attempted to supplement the perceived deficiencies of orthodox Marxism or dialectical materialism. Many prominent neo-Marxists, such as Herbert Marcuse, were sociologists and psychologists.

Neo-Marxism comes under the broader heading of New Left thinking. Neo-Marxism is also used frequently to describe opposition to inequalities experienced by Lesser Developed Countries in a globalized world. In a sociological sense, neo-Marxism adds Max Weber's broader understanding of social inequality, such as status and power, to Marxist philosophy. Strains of neo-Marxism include: critical theory, analytical Marxism and French structural Marxism.

This all sounds just like PresBO - especially the part about 'social inequality' and Barack's "Spread the Wealth" philosophy.

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a
happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the
other. -- Ronald Reagan

"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people." "True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters."Pravda..The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe

Yes another cut /paste job.. but this is just a taste of an extreamly enlightening artical from a Russian Newspaper... I could not paraphrase it and give it justice.. This is a must read for all.. No matter which side of the fence you are standing on... You can not deny what is being said here.. You can not just dismiss this as a whacko Right Wingnut Site.. Mainstream, Davids Mom..et al.. I really don't think Pravda is truely a Conservative paper but what the heck I HAVE BEEN WRONG once or twice before...
Guys... we argue here about inane things.. I too join in to spray spittal from time to time.. but this is downright SCARY... I mean the RUSSIANS lecturing us on FREEDOM and the lost thereof... The loss of Capitalism and the fact that America's own "SHEEPLE" their words are asleep at the switch..
WAKE UP AMERICA.. before it is too late.. THIS IS NOT A Left/Right issue it's an AMERICAN issue.. and we all need to be the people we were on 9/12 not 9/10 "sheeple"..

Even Russia knows we are DOOMED Link

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS..

GUN CONTROL Link

You you you you

Now THAT was funny !

So now you are saying we have to meet your self defined prerequisite to complain or say we have had enough of this big government explosion?

Okay, so in your mind, because 'W' sucked and grew the government and the national debt, unless we published our opinions in a forum you could read and understand, we are all supposed to either applaud the fact that 'O' is even worse or just shut up and take it some more until we reach a worse state of the nation then even the malaise of the Carter days?

I think not.

Please don't think anybody has to meet my prerequisites to complain! I don't have any prerequisites. You are assigning a position to me which I don't support then attacking it. Have at it. Complain away.

When I read your post that said

"I didn't notice your complaints when Bush added (yada yada yada)..."

I ASSumed that you discounted his concerns and complaints because you had not read a complaint by him about the Bush administration.

I apologize.

I just had difficulty calling its name. Check out the same battle-tested tactic at work on the Obama courts militants blog. Funny stuff