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Graham: Republicans Have The Leverage To Delay Sotomayor Confirmation
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on Fox News this afternoon to discuss Sonia Sotomayor and the time frame for her confirmation hearings.
Two things to take away from his appearance. First, he said Republicans don't intend to obstruct her nomination. Second, he said Republicans have enough clout to at least delay her ultimate confirmation. Time will tell how Republicans actually respond, but just because Republicans probably won't filibuster Sotomayor doesn't mean they won't drag the process along, raising money and attacking the nominee along the way.
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I'm sure they'll talk, a lot, about how they need more time, etc, but if they start boycotting the confirmation hearings? There isn't an upside to that. At least, not a long term upside. Short term, perhaps.
But it will just be portrayed as Republicans don't like the Latina.
June 10, 2009 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've got clout!
June 10, 2009 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
You've go gout?
June 11, 2009 2:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, they've shut down the wingnuttery (actually Sotomayor and Obama did they just don't know it) so the GOP "Leaders" are back in control of an inevitable process, doing what they always planned to do before Limbaugh and Gingrich rang the dinner bell in the nut house
June 10, 2009 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've got clout!
June 10, 2009 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
You've got a big snout?
June 11, 2009 2:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not smart like Lindsey Graham. What the hell is the upside for them in doing this that outweights the harm they're doing themselves with Latino voters, moderate women, etc?
June 10, 2009 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've got clout!
June 10, 2009 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
You swim with trout?
June 11, 2009 2:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Brian, Brian, Brian....
You and other like folk in the media are paying much more attention to the Republicans in Congress than you really should. All you are doing is helping them get noticed and to raise money.
Stories with a lot more meat would be appreciated. I will no longer be clicking on absurd stories about the Republican do-nothings in the Senate.
June 10, 2009 1:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've got clout?
June 10, 2009 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you really have to ask then I would say YOU HAVE NO CLOUT ... WITHOUT A DOUBT!
June 11, 2009 2:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
So how's he going to delay the Sotomayor confirmation if he's shut down the senate over torture photos? :P
June 10, 2009 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've got clout!
June 10, 2009 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Got milk?
June 11, 2009 2:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mr. Graham and his Republican cohort MAY have the leverage the headline claims, but if the Democrats, who own the Senate, House and White House find some backbone, I'm sure they have the leverage to our lever the Republican's leverage
June 10, 2009 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
that's 'OUT' lever, not "our lever".
June 10, 2009 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've got clout!
June 10, 2009 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Drink Guinness Stout!
June 11, 2009 2:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
About as likely an "if" as in "if I hit the lottery despite not having bought a ticket, then...."
June 10, 2009 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've got cloud!
June 10, 2009 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
You REALLY need to try copy and paste.
June 11, 2009 2:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
we've got clour!
June 10, 2009 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really? CLOUR:
Clour 6 thumbs up love it hate it
Pronounced "clower"
After a night of heavy drinking the hour in which one finds him/herself and/or others particularly witty, clever or funny.
A combination of the words clever and hour.
If the condition continues throughout the day it becomes Clay.
June 11, 2009 2:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm confused. They don't intend to obstruct the nomination, just delay it. And the difference would be....?
June 10, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've got clout?
June 10, 2009 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
mans,
the Republicans have to do something, anything, regardless of how asinine or self-defeating, in order to show they aren't irrelevant.
June 10, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
They've already done that, haven't they.
They invited Caribou Barbie out for dinner.
June 10, 2009 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
June 10, 2009 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
And then disinvited her, and then re-invited her, on the condition that she not "upstage" the Newster...
Not a lot of coherence, is there?
But hey, CNN told me, on their chryon, that Palin "stole the show".
They didn't mention which show that was, though.
June 10, 2009 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
WE'VE GOT CLOUT!!!
June 10, 2009 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
jonnie,
SHOUT, IT OUT! WE GOT CLOUT; NOW DON'T YOU POUT, WE GOT THE CLOUT; WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE CLOUT IS ABOUT; TOUT THAT CLOUT; DON'T BE A LOUT, SHOUT IT OUT, WE GOT THE CLOUT!
June 10, 2009 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's this about?
June 11, 2009 8:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sotomayor will be confirmed regardless of what the GOP do. As far as the fundraising, it is at a all time low. They raised $14 million at their dinner the other night, but that was way down. You have to go back five years to see the GOP fndraising at this low point.
The GOP only have one game plan: everything obama suggest is going to be met with GOP whining, complaining, lying, scare tactics and grandstanding.
June 10, 2009 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fuck 'em. Call their bluff. Give them enough rope to hang themselves. The Dems need to grow some goddamn backbone. Without a doubt.
June 11, 2009 3:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
When Lindsey says, we've got clout, what he is really saying is, we've got several Democrats in our back pocket that will help us drag this nomination through the mud!
June 11, 2009 9:00 AM | Reply | Permalink