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To: combjelly who wrote (222534)	3/7/2005 1:36:44 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

There are still slaves in africa, Niger cancel slave freedom day today, they were gonna free 3000 of them. Where's the libs outrage over slavery in Africa. You jumped all over the Whites in South Africa, but not the blacks elsewhere. Is it because you think it's ok for blacks to act less civilized then whites?

To: combjelly who wrote (222534)	3/7/2005 1:41:09 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

SOBs...from your link...Al =========================================== Gingrich falsely claimed that Republican senators never "systematically tried to obstruct" Clinton judicial nominees FOX News contributor and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich falsely claimed that Republicans senators did not systematically block former President Bill Clinton's judicial nominees. On the February 16 edition of FOX News' Hannity & Colmes, Gingrich criticized what he called Democratic senators' "blatant, deliberate, systematic filibustering" of some of President Bush's judicial nominees and then declared, "[T]he fact is, I do not believe that the Republicans in the Senate in the Clinton years systematically tried to obstruct [judicial nominees]. They tried to defeat people. They forced votes on people." In fact, while Democratic senators used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's 229 first-term judicial nominees, the Republican-controlled Senate prevented approximately 60 Clinton nominees from even receiving a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, much less a vote on the Senate floor. And while Senate Republicans under Clinton strictly enforced a "blue slip" rule -- which allows one home-state senator to prevent a nomination from moving forward -- they greatly relaxed this rule under Bush to circumvent Democrats' objections to several nominees. As The Washington Post noted in a December 13 article detailing Republican opposition to Democrats' filibusters of Bush nominees: "Republicans say that Democrats have abused the filibuster by blocking 10 of the president's 229 judicial nominees in his first term -- although confirmation of Bush nominees exceeds in most cases the first-term experience of presidents dating to Ronald Reagan." While MSNBC noted on January 14 that the Democratic senators' use of the filibuster to block nominees has been "the most aggressive use of that tactic in Senate history," the Republican-controlled Senate blocked up-or-down votes on far more Clinton nominees than the number of Bush nominees the Democrats filibustered, and, in most cases, even denied them hearings and committee votes. As The Christian Science Monitor noted on May 12, 2003, "some 60 Clinton nominees never had a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee," which served "as effective a block to confirmation as a filibuster," according to Democrats. Similarly, as The Washington Post reported on September 5, 2003, "Senate Republicans enraged Democrats by bottling up about 60 of President Bill Clinton's nominees." Further, the Republicans used the "blue slip" policy to deny Clinton appointments but then altered the policy after Bush took office. As The Christian Science Monitor has noted, the "blue slip" process is one "in which a home-state senator may indefinitely delay a nominee by failing to return a blue slip to the judiciary committee" confirming their approval of the nominee. But while Senate Republicans, led by Judiciary Chairman Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), used the "blue slip" to block Clinton nominees, Hatch relaxed and, in several cases, simply ignored the policy after Bush became president. As CNN noted on August 14, 2001, even Attorney General and then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has said that Republican senators' "partisanship over judicial nominations" during the Clinton era was "improper" and "wrong."

To: combjelly who wrote (222534)	3/7/2005 2:48:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

".....and it was Richard Nixon who freed the slaves." No, apparently it was Dubya that did that... Fox seems to be pretty good at fostering false impressions among its viewers while leaving them with the feeling that they are well informed. So when they make the claims about WMD being found in Iraq, they go with it. Or anything else that is not reality-based for that matter. The list is pretty damning. See that's what I get. I don't watch Fox enough. Just two years ago, they said Nixon freed the slaves. Some important new info must have come to their attention and they revised everything so that now its dubya that freed the slaves. Are you sure it wasn't dubya AND Nixon? I think it was about the time daddy Bush got dubya into grad school. dubya might have been pretty busy with school and drinking. I am sure he would have needed some help freeing the slaves. Maybe that's where Nixon comes into the picture.........of course, that would have been before Mr. Nixon was caught lying and resigned. I think there is a window in there where it might all have happened with both of them involved. What do you think? ted