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Seems our leftwing friends over at The Nation are a little mad at Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE); seems that Senator Nelson has decided that doing the right thing is more important than allowing a tiny minority of the Democratic Party to dictate the terms on which a person may be elevated to a Federal judicial seat:
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Nelson, the Senate's most conservative Democrat, is drafting legislation to give bipartisan cover to Bill Frist's plan to outlaw the filibuster of judicial nominees, known as the "nuclear option." Nelson's proposal would bar the use of the filibuster and allow any Senator to call an up-or-down floor vote on any judicial nominee, even if the Senate Judiciary Committee blocks the nomination.
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I can't help but observing how fun it is to read leftwing opinion: we're going to "outlaw" the filibuster of judicial nominees...makes it sound ominous, doesn't it? Of course, the filibuster isn't a law...its a mere Senate rule, changeable at the will of the Senate majority. I can't see the harm in allowing for an up or down vote on a nominee; after all, if they really are way outside the mainstream, the left should be able to gin up enough public outrage to pressure the Senate into voting down the nomination, right? But, of course, there is nothing of the sort in here...what the left is (correctly) worried about is that these Bush judicial nominees are entirely within the mainstream and, worse, will enforce the laws of the United States as written, thus thwarting leftwing attempt to implement their plans via judicial fiat. They can't stand this, and it seems that Senator Nelson may be the next senior Democratic Senator to end up speaking at a GOP convention.
Posted by Mark Noonan
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