ALLEN RESPONDS TO KERRY FILIBUSTER THREAT

[patrioticliberal]

HEADLINE: SEN. ALLEN RESPONDS TO KERRY FILIBUSTER THREAT

BYLINE: US Fed News

DATELINE: WASHINGTON

BODY:


The office of Sen. George Allen, R-Va., issued the following press release:

Sen. George Allen (R-VA) today responded to media reports that Sen.

John Kerry (D-MA) called for a filibuster against Judge Samuel Alito as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. During his floor statement in support of Judge Alito on Wednesday, Senator Allen stated, "if they move forward with such a filibuster, my reaction is: 'make my day.'"

"Well, hearing this news today, Senator Kerry must be feeling lucky because he wants to make my day. If Senate Democrats follow his advice, then I say we must pull the trigger on the Constitutional option. Senators should vote on this nomination and not hide behind partisan political processes to deny this exemplary nominee the fairness of a vote. Senators can vote 'yes' or vote 'no', but it is our responsibility to vote," said Senator Allen.

"I understand Senator Kerry is in Davos,. He shouldn't be wasting taxpayer's hard-earned money on long distance phone charges calling for such obstruction. I was hopeful that this nomination process would be of a civil nature. I doubt that all the Democrat Senators will follow Sen. Kerry's long-distance advice."

[LoZoccolo]

1. Cornered animal.

First he talks of making the nomination process "civil", but then he goes and introduces language like "make my day" and takes the cheap shot with the long-distance thing.

[janx]

4. Yep.

Very perceptive of you! ;-)

[WahooJunkie]

2. dillweed

can't stand that man. "The consitutional option"? puh-lease.

Way to make me ashamed to live in VA.....as if I needed any more reason.

[janx]

6. Wasn't this referred to previously as the "nuclear option"?

?

[WahooJunkie]

9. Yes. n/t

[rodeodance]

10. yes, but some Repugs want it to be patriotic so they renamed it.

[bunkerbuster1]

21. Even though Repubs coined the term in the first place.

Death to any media outlets that let them get away with calling it "constitutional." It's cheating, and it'd be, effectively, the end of the Senate's centuries-long history as a deliberative body, and the start of a new, glorified House of Lords.

[janx]

22. But it isn't constitutional at all, is it?

Maybe another reason they renamed it was to call it something that it isn't.

[graywarrior]

3. They're such cowboys, aren't they?

[TayTay]

5. Geez, Davos looks a lot like the Senate floor

I wonder if Senator 'Dumber than a bag of cold rocks' knows that.

[GetTheRightVote]

7. I just left a message at his office in DC, boy are they smug,

I really, really hate these republicans who think they can beat up on anyone who goes against their wishes or thug actions. It is time to take this nation back into a free thinking nation where a dissenting voice still can be heard and acknowledged. I will never in my life vote for these thugs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The person who answered with that tone of voice is very sorry she did now believe me, she got an ear full of it from me.

:kick:

[emulatorloo]

8. This Bush-tool wastes the taxpayer's money by getting up every morning

and nobody does "partisan" better than a bush-bot like allen.

[Blaukraut]

11. and THAT thing is running in '08

Don't make me laugh. Gee, I'm so scared now, Allen. Emulate Cowboy Bush much? He might want to rethink the tough and stupid image in light of chimps poll numbers these days. Oops, right - Allen IS stupid. Not much he can do about that, is there.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. Allen is still a spoiled little boy in a ugly man's body.

That kind of adolescent prattle is to be expected from the fool. He needs a punch in his big ugly nose to make his fucking day.

[maxrandb]

14. If his dad were not a football coach

Allen would be saying "do you want fries with that?"

or,

"It's $20 if you have a rubber, $40 if you don't".

[wtbymark]

13. we'll make your day shithead

senate walkout and lawsuit?

we would truely need all dems to walk out and file papers in fed court, which would reach scotus without Alito (because he IS in the case in question) actually the case would be about senate rule changes but Alito would be named in the suit (as an actuary?)

ahhh just shut the fuckin' senate down - no pay

[Nutmegger]

15. You sick bastards shouldn't

waste our tax money in Iraq when the folks in the south need it the most. You sick, pathetic bastard.

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. Both sides playing to their bases

Kerry knows that there aren't the votes for a filibuster. But he wants to be the nominee in 2008, so he has to make it look like he is fighting for the base.

Allen knows this, and is trying to up his credentials with the conservatives by leading the 'fight' even though he knows that his side has already won.

[blm]

24. Untrue. Kerry didn't want to be the lead on this - he was scheduled to be

out of the country at this time.

Kennedy needed someone to lead cuz he couldn't do it alone after the beating he took during the hearings. No one stepped up.

Kerry stepped up even KNOWING that he would be an even bigger target and that it would be used aginst him by the establishment Dems.

[Freddie Stubbs]

26. Kerry knows that there aren't enough votes to sustain the filibuster

It is all a ruse to play to the base. Allen is doing the same thing.

[blm]

27. That's your opinion. The facts point otherwise.

If many Dems were holding their vote to themselves then no way did Kerry know for certain the votes weren't there. He did NOT seek to take the lead on this - he's doing it because no one else would take the first step to join with Kennedy.

[Kierkegaard]

17. Uh, right.

Real easy to throw around the word 'fairness' when you control all the leevers, eh George? In the now famous words of another diseased and teetering asshole, "Go fuck yourself."

[wtbymark]

23. you spelled your nicname wrong

KierkRegaard - forget the 'R'

[Kierkegaard]

25. I did?

To which 'R' are you referring?

Oh, and you misspelled 'nickname.'

:+

[democrat_patriot]

18. Firstly, it ain't no threat fucktard. If they can they will. End of story

Second - Kerry's back you uninformed asshat.

[Midlodemocrat]

19. God, he is completely worthless.

What a posturing POS. Reminds me of Ahnold.

[unkachuck]

20. c'mon Senate Dems....

....allen's calling you out....you can't chicken-out now....

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. I've coined a term for such talk. I call it Penis Talk.

:hi:

[boston bean]

29. Salazar is taking a poll, call him now!!!

they answer and ask me if I support or don't support a filibuster and that's all they want to know.


Ken Salazar (D- CO) 202-224-5852


They will ask what city you are calling from.

[many a good man]

30. Virginia, Virginia, Virginia!

What can you say about a state that came within a hair's breadth of sending Ollie North to the Senate?

[underpants]

31. If it weren't for Sen.Warner Ollie would have the seat Allen has

Warner got Marshall Coleman to run to take votes away from North and Robb got re-elected.

Then Allen beat Robb.

[many a good man]

34. Get another Senator Warner and maybe

the country will forgive you, Virginia! (Mark Warner)

[underpants]

35. Amen to that

Mark is running for the BIG HOUSE though

[underpants]

32. SWEET NECTAR OF LIBERTY

Condi Rice’s confirmation hearing
1/19/05
http://allen.senate.gov/?c=story&t=press&story=2005011961776.859375

Because of President Reagan's steadfast determination, hundreds of millions of people tasting that sweet nectar of liberty in central Europe are now friends and allies," said Senator Allen.

On the 2004 election
10/10/2004
http://www.vote-smart.org/speech_detail.php?speech_id=69507
Ronald Reagan's election changed the dynamic of the Cold War from one of containment and co-existence to the advancement of freedom. As a result, hundreds of millions of people in Central Europe, once behind the Iron Curtain, now taste the sweet nectar of liberty, have joined NATO, and are true friends and allies.

Senator Allen's Tribute to President Reagan
June 8, 2004
http://www.nrsc.org/nrscweb/newsdesk/articles/401.shtml

But President Reagan believed the blessings of liberty must not be bestowed only on a few nations and only to those blessed to be born on free soil; Ronald Reagan, with the strength of his convictions, exported and advanced democracy to continents, countries, and people yearning to taste the sweet nectar of libert.



GOVERNOR ALLEN SELECTED AS "JEFFERSON SCHOLAR"
August 28, 1998
http://www.alec.org/viewpage.cfm?pgname=3.1aa56

He also pointed to North Korea, China, Iraq, Cuba and other countries where "there are people who have never truly tasted freedom's sweet nectar.

[smartvoter]

33. Like it matters if they go nuclear. The net net is the same. nt

[newyawker99]

36. Pompous idiot!!

"I understand Senator Kerry is in Davos,. He shouldn't be wasting taxpayer's hard-earned money on long distance phone charges calling for such obstruction. I was hopeful that this nomination process would be of a civil nature. I doubt that all the Democrat Senators will follow Sen. Kerry's long-distance advice."



:puke:

[Jose Diablo]

37. My response to Sen. Allen would be

Have I used 5 shots or 6? Are you feeling lucky today...PUNK? Go ahead, use your 'Constitutional Option'. When it all goes down, you will be back home, with no job and no prospect for a life in politics.

All this is crap, using movie lines like it is somehow real. Is that what DC has become, a series of movie clips played for cows munching grass while watching TV.

It's getting near the time, to take the streets. Thats the real world. These cringing peckerwoods in DC posturing like they are men. Making like whatever hollywood can dream-up is real.

[Catchawave]

38. Yes, my Senator is an idiot and

wants to be President too. It's obvious he's spewing those RW talking points in dissing Kerry....see the Scotty thread :).....

Allen is not listening to his constituents, that's for sure.

[ticapnews]

39. long-distance phone charges?

We're spending $5,000,000,000 a month in Iraq and he's worried about paying .10/minute on long distance phone calls?