When you don't get your way change the rules! - Page 2

SacTown Chronic · 03-24-2005, 08:37 AM

As to the specific point addressed in the OP, I find it all to be disgusting. If my memory serves, the Repubs were pissed about Bork so they blocked Clinton at every turn. The Dems answered by, wrongly, changing the rules to benefit them. Now the GOP, wrongly, is changing the rules back 'cause it benefits them.

It all sucks eggs.

scaeagles · 03-24-2005, 08:39 AM

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If my memory serves, the Repubs were pissed about Bork so they blocked Clinton at every turn.

My memory is not what it used to be....but what judicial nominations were blocked during the Clinton years?

I recall Zoe Baird, but she wasn't for a judgeship, and ethical concerns caused Clinton to pull her nommination.....I think.

But I honestly can't think of continuous blocking of any appointee.

SacTown Chronic · 03-24-2005, 08:50 AM

Maybe that should read "attempted to block Clinton at every turn"? My memory is also a bit faulty -- it feels to me as if the Bush years have lasted an eternity.

Nephythys · 03-24-2005, 09:01 AM

I fail to see how it is wrong to go back to the Constitutional Rules that were in place forever before the Dems changed it to suit them.

But naturally- if you want to continue to allow your dems to be obstructionst hypocrites, please, do so. And then sit back and enjoy the results in 2006.

SacTown Chronic · 03-24-2005, 09:10 AM

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I fail to see how it is wrong to go back to the Constitutional Rules that were in place forever before the Dems changed it to suit them.

It's not wrong to keep, or return to, the rules put in place by the Constitution. *cough* gay marriage *cough*.

I just question that they'd be all fired up to change the rules back if the current rules benefitted them.

Scrooge McSam · 03-24-2005, 09:16 AM

I gotta go with Leo and Cas on this one.

Did it just get really quiet in here??

Nephythys · 03-24-2005, 09:23 AM

Oh my god- the earth just shifted rotation!

Scrooge McSam · 03-24-2005, 09:34 AM

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Oh my god- the earth just shifted rotation!

LOL

Maybe one day we'll all be on the same boards when things swing around for the dems to be in power. I assure you I can be just as hard on them.

Nephythys · 03-24-2005, 09:37 AM

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LOL

Maybe one day we'll all be on the same boards when things swing around for the dems to be in power. I assure you I can be just as hard on them.

Oh, by then we will be much much older and wiser, hell, you'll be conservative by then.

scaeagles · 03-24-2005, 09:48 AM

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I gotta go with Leo and Cas on this one.

Did it just get really quiet in here??

(staring ahead with a blank stare) Blink.........blink........blink........

No - not surprised. I'm only surprised when people don't agree with me.

03-24-2005, 08:37 AM	#11
SacTown Chronic the myth of the dream Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,217	As to the specific point addressed in the OP, I find it all to be disgusting. If my memory serves, the Repubs were pissed about Bork so they blocked Clinton at every turn. The Dems answered by, wrongly, changing the rules to benefit them. Now the GOP, wrongly, is changing the rules back 'cause it benefits them. It all sucks eggs. __________________ Is it the fingers, or the brain that you're teaching a lesson?
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03-24-2005, 08:50 AM	#13
SacTown Chronic the myth of the dream Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,217	Maybe that should read "attempted to block Clinton at every turn"? My memory is also a bit faulty -- it feels to me as if the Bush years have lasted an eternity. __________________ Is it the fingers, or the brain that you're teaching a lesson?
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Nephythys Yeah, that's about it- Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a state of constant crap to get done Posts: 2,688	I fail to see how it is wrong to go back to the Constitutional Rules that were in place forever before the Dems changed it to suit them. But naturally- if you want to continue to allow your dems to be obstructionst hypocrites, please, do so. And then sit back and enjoy the results in 2006.
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03-24-2005, 09:16 AM	#16
Scrooge McSam What? Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,635	I gotta go with Leo and Cas on this one. Did it just get really quiet in here??
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03-24-2005, 09:23 AM	#17
Nephythys Yeah, that's about it- Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a state of constant crap to get done Posts: 2,688	Oh my god- the earth just shifted rotation!
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