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Showdown Week in the Senate
By Lisa Fabrizio
May 20, 2005
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The media are actually looking forward to the judicial filibuster battle as they hope to round up the usual suspects for beatification. 'Mavericks' like John McCain and 'profiles in courage' such as Lincoln Chaffee, Olympia Snowe and other Republicans In Name Only will be lauded unless and until they shock the country and vote with their party. But it won't be so easy for them to thwart a quietly powerful and determined Majority Leader as Bill Frist now appears to be.
Equally determined though considerably less powerful, Harry Reid is becoming quite the debonair orator as befits a man charged with living up to the stature of his predecessor, dashing Tom Daschle. Topping even the eloquence of the Romanesque Byrd, he quipped that the nuclear option was nothing more than a "big wet kiss to the far right."
But he didn't stop there. In a week that saw his party's chairman, Howard Dean, call the president "despicable," Harry felt compelled to add that he was also "a loser." And he showed himself easily as morally challenged as Dean when he defied Senate and FBI rules by disclosing of one of the nominees:
"Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway. All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree that there is a problem there."
In the unethical bloodying of nominees when they cannot answer back, gratuitously insulting the president, threatening the Majority Leader and scorning all possibilities for a face-saving compromise, Reid and friends have thrown down the senatorial gauntlet in the face of the voting public who elected the majority.
Let us hope that after Bolton has confronted the UN cesspool and all of President Bush's judges are seated, the voters will be wise enough to relocate more Democrats to the bench of irrelevancy, right next to the original obstructionist, Mr. Daschle himself.
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Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut. You may write her at mailbox@lisafab.com.
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