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To: Rollcast... who wrote (14935)11/3/2003 3:28:10 AM
From: LindyBill   of 793897
 
GOP hopes for filibuster backlash

By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The governor's election in Mississippi tomorrow will be the Republicans' first major opportunity to test how much voters care that Democrats are filibustering some of President Bush's judicial nominations.
If the issue sticks, Republicans are ready with blocked nominees — several representing the Democratic Party's most crucial constituencies — to use as the faces of what they call "Democratic obstruction" in next year's presidential and senatorial elections........

..... In Mississippi, Republicans used last week's Democratic filibuster of the nomination of lifelong Mississippian Judge Charles W. Pickering Sr. to the federal bench against Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove in the governor's race.
"They have one thing against Charles Pickering, and this is the story of the Democratic Party today," said Haley S. Barbour, Mr. Musgrove's Republican challenger. "Charles Pickering is being filibustered because he is a conservative, pro-life, Republican Christian. This is just a reminder of the difference between Republicans and Democrats."
Mr. Musgrove, who supports Judge Pickering's nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, released a letter urging his approval.
washtimes.com
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