(Sen. Pat) Roberts a key to filibuster decision

[johnfunk]

WASHINGTON –– With a showdown over judicial nominees looming, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas could be one of several pivotal Republicans to oppose stripping the Senate of its traditional power to filibuster.

Roberts expressed doubt about the “nuclear option,” which would end a long-running Democratic threat — to filibuster seven of President Bush's nominees for the federal bench — by changing long-standing Senate rules.

“What goes around comes around,” Roberts said in an interview last week, worried that the rule change could someday come back to haunt his party.

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Methinks Pat may wake up with a horse's head in his bed soon. Since it's Frist's puppet show, maybe a cat's head...

[dmr]

1. That's just it ...

He has enough common sense to say:

“What goes around comes around,” Roberts said in an interview last week, worried that the rule change could someday come back to haunt his party.

Could it be possible that those in the GOP leadership only want to temporarily change to the 'nuclear option'? After they have their way with the voting they will restore the filibuster by saying they had time to think about it and realize its unfairness. How generous of them, don't you think?

This way when they become the minority, which they will some day (hopefully), the filibuster will still be in place.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. There are some who are currently in power who have the hubris to believe

that they will never again be in the minority in Congress. It may not be done legally, but they believe it will be done. Therefore they have no concern for the future karma coming back to bite them on their collective asses.

[mmonk]

3. Yes, they intend

to "create" their own reality.

[corbett]

8. They Have Redefined Hubris

They figure that if they can get the mainstream press to be their echo chamber and run as independently-verified fact White House press briefings, they'll never be the minority again. That's what the Democrats thought in early November, 1992!

[MasonJar]

4. I wouldn't trust Pat Roberts on anything; he is a liar and pond

scum. In his committee he said he would come back to the investigation of the intelligence scandals and the torture after the election. Of course after the election his excuse was that it was now old news.

[flordehinojos]

5. can you imagine, "old news" to investigate the failure of intelligence, or

more than the failure of intelligence the DISCOVERY OF WHO IN THE WHITE HOUSE DID WHAT AND TO WHOM on that day that we now call 9/11 as short hand for criminal acts committed against the U.S.?

You know it, and I know it. Pat Roberts will go along with the nuclear option, just like he has gone along with protecting the bush boy, so i am not holding my breath.

but ... truth will out one day and it will stare him straight in the face...even if it is years form now on his death bed, of that you can be sure of.

[Zorra]

6. All this bullshit about this or that GOP Senator "expresses doubts"

about filibuster, Bolton, blah blah blah is just that - pure bullshit. When it comes down to it, they will do whatever is necessary to help Bush destroy America.

The media keeps printing these stories about moderate, "concerned republicans" because they are trying to provide a smokescreen for the truth - and the truth is that the republican party is an extreme right-wing fascist organization hellbent on destroying democracy in America.

These people are the very bottom of the barrel - republican politicians. They are paid to lie, cheat and do any corrupt thing necessary to crush democracy.

[MuseRider]

7. I don't believe he will

not follow the party line but on the off chance I will start contacting everyone I know to pound his office with calls and mail. I don't believe it for a second. Still, it will feel good to be part of something he MIGHT listen to for once. We can only try.

[atommom]

9. Same here. Knowing what I know about him, I can't imagine he'd

break with the almighty GOP. But hope springs eternal...