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Author Message   Cowboy Citizen Username: Cowboy Post Number: 325 Registered: 9-2003 Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 12:33 pm:        Question: When in the hell are Senate Republicans going to grow a spine? While the Democrats are demanding investigations on memo leaks, why isn't that wimp Orin Hatch demanding an investigation on whether or not Democrats opposed a Bush nominee because of his ethnic heritage, and as to just which Democratic staffer it was who considers most of Bush's nominees to be Nazis? Answer: Never. If these Senate Republicans can't fight their own president on spending, they sure as hell can't fight Democrats on ethnic name calling and filibusters that violate the very spirit of our Constitution. So ... just what did these memos say? Well, one memo to Democratic Senator Richard Durbin said " .. most of Bush's nominees are Nazis." Another memo to Durbin said that Bush nominee Miguel Estrada was objectionable to liberal groups because " .. he is a Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court nomination." Stop for a minute and contemplate the nuclear outrage that would follow a revelation that a Republican Senate Staffer had sent a memo to a Republican Senator about a black judicial nominee explaining why conservative groups object to the nomination by saying " ... he is black, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court nomination." Such a memo would be at the top of the front page of every liberal newspaper in the country for six months. So ... was there any eruption of outrage in the nation's media over the content of these memos? Are you kidding? The Democrats immediately went on the offensive demanding a full investigation as to just how the memos were leaked. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orin Hatch ... the man who refused to hold the Democrats feet to the fire on their filibuster ... immediately rolled over and played dead. He has now asked for the resignation of a Republican committee staffer. Meanwhile, few people are aware, and nobody seems to care that Democrats on the committee referred to most of Bush's nominees as "Nazis" and objected to one nominee because he was Hispanic.   tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 1941 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 1:15 pm:        Please give fuller citations for the objection to one nominee because he was Hispanic; and to the reference to Nazis. Note the emphasis. Complete paragraphs, or at least sentences, would be helpful. Thanks.   bobk Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 4613 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 1:27 pm:        Like a lot of emails, inclduing mine, they are written in short hand under the assumption, now proven wrong, that they are confidential. I don't think that the Dems have made a secret that they oppose Estrada because he is conservative to the extreme, has no paper trail and as an Hispanic it would be hard to oppose his Supreme Court nomination without looking racist. I don't like the term Nazi either. However it is a lot easier to type than extreme right wing idealogue. Senator Hatch, to his credit, thinks that hacking into computer systems for political gain is not proper. Think about it. Is this covered by the Patriots Act?   cjc Citizen Username: Cjc Post Number: 883 Registered: 8-2003 Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:15 pm:        I agree. Many times in emails, I say "Commie" instead of the longer Democratic Operative. While the link of mass murdering millions of innocents is slightly off target, they do share the same ideology. As for Estrada's ethnicity, I think Bob Hernendez, D-NJ countered that well by saying Estrada wasn't a real Hispanic cuz he wasn't poor, didn't come from dirt poor beginnings and was successful. I mean, who could argue with that?   tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 1942 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:47 pm:        I find it difficult to believe that someone with the surname "Hernendez" would use those precise words, unless he was being facetious.   Dr. Winston O'Boogie Citizen Username: Casey Post Number: 526 Registered: 8-2003 Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:55 pm:        maybe the whole thing was a gag, and that Hernendez guy got the press to believe he was actually NJ Congressman Bob Menendez. you know how all those Latino names sound alike, don't you?