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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (142969)	5/5/2001 8:10:33 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Looks like - What goes around comes around. Republican Senators like former Sen Slade Gorton in WA insisted on the right to block judicial nominees from their state. Now Democrats insist on the same privilege. I love it.

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (142969)	5/5/2001 9:25:45 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<Senate Democrats, in a firmly worded letter, put the White House on notice Friday on how they planned to treat President Bush (news - web sites)'s judicial nominees.>> More partisan politics from the dems.

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (142969)	5/5/2001 11:23:13 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

In order to understand the new "thinking man's" administration that has finally come to power, one cannot always look at the surface of issues like this. There's not a single member of the Bush administration that expects (or ever expected) the Democrats to do anything but cat-fight over judges. Put aside for now the idea that it's better for conservatives to FINALLY see the Senate re-asserting itself over the Executive branch, as well as the liberal media/Democrat propaganda machine in judicial matters, even if this current argument seems to have been initiated by liberals. Put aside also the possibility that the Bush administration is just letting senile old Orrin Hatch hang himself publicly over this, so that they can move along with their own judicial agenda. Both of these are worth a discussion in themselves. But the Realpolitik here is taking advantage of the direct attack that is expected from the left on judges. Each time the Dems can muster 41 votes, Bush won't get a judge. Bush knows it, the Dems know it, the media knows it, it is a given. So the "thinking man's" administration will ask "What advantage can be wrought from this." One possibility: Highlight the fact that, for people from states with split Senate delegations, there will BE NO JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS until the voters rectify the split. The offending Senator may be able to handle this back home, but the point is he will have to use at least SOME political capital to do so. I realize this is rather arcane, but our politics is not nearly as oversimplified as our left-wing media would have us believe. Add to that the rest of the "thinking man's" bag of tricks-like how many Hispanic USSC nominees the Dems will actually filibuster away before they start losing Hispanic votes big-time-and you can begin to follow the ritual dance over judicial appointees that we are about to witness...