Co-Equal Branches of Liars

I guess at least it's good to know that Bill Frist is just as capable of talking out of his ass as Cowboy George:

This morning on the floor of the Senate, Sen. Chuck Schumer asked Majority Leader Bill Frist a simple question:

SEN. SCHUMER: Isn’t it correct that on March 8, 2000, my colleague [Sen. Frist] voted to uphold the filibuster of Judge Richard Paez?

Here was Frist’s response:

The president, the um, in response, uh, the Paez nomination - we’ll come back and discuss this further. … Actually I’d like to, and it really brings to what I believe - a point - and it really brings to, oddly, a point, what is the issue. The issue is we have leadership-led partisan filibusters that have, um, obstructed, not one nominee, but two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, in a routine way.

The issue is not cloture votes per se, it’s the partisan, leadership-led use of cloture votes to kill - to defeat - to assassinate these nominees. That’s the difference. Cloture has been used in the past on this floor to postpone, to get more info, to ask further questions.

More here.

Maybe the formaldehyde he sniffed back in the 70s--when he butchered cats for fun and profit--affected his brain function.

Make no mistake--judges Owen and Brown are both total nutcases. The former, among other things, can take credit for needlessly stalling a tort case involving Ford Motor Company, legislating from the bench along the way, and preventing compensation from reaching the victim, who died as a result. Nice going, Judge Owen.

In addition, Owen has a not-so-surprising record of siding with those who CTC--cut the checks for the re-election fund. I dunno, though, maybe she's tired of having to beg, and Federal judgeships are lifetime tenure...

Brown's record is briefly reviewed here, while Crooked Timber has in archives an analysis of a speech where she conflated the New Deal with godless, athiestic...well, socialism, but socialism that's just as evil as the -ism that begins with a (Das) Capital "C". In other words, NO SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK FOR YOU, GRANNY!

I'm reminded of something an Eisenhower appointee to the Supreme Court once said about obscenity--I know it when I see it.