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Bolton
Let him put up a nominee who has the background and the temperament for the work.
Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 1:49:02 AM
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Not just someone he wants.
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Support John Bolton
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gbaikie
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5/26/2005 8:10:58 AM
It's about Bush, continued...
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Tom Brosz
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5/28/2005 11:24:01 PM
Bolton is a really bad choice
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alcaray
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5/26/2005 4:05:55 PM
A list of former U.N. ambassadors
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Tom Brosz
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5/26/2005 6:26:17 PM
re: Bolton is a really bad choice
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p
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5/26/2005 4:15:55 PM
It is not about the UN, it is about Bolton
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alcaray
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5/26/2005 4:34:21 PM
Actually, no, it's about Bush.
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Tom Brosz
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5/26/2005 6:10:12 PM
Someone who would manufacture a bioweapons case against Cuba...
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alcaray
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5/26/2005 8:45:50 PM
re: Actually, no, it's about Bolton.
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Mary Anne
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5/26/2005 6:52:40 PM
Not according to the Democrats
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Sam F.
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5/28/2005 10:52:34 PM
First, your source is the "Washington Times", where Democrats are an endangered species.
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Mary Anne
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5/29/2005 4:49:08 PM
Oh no, you can't really meant that. You just can't have.
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Sam F.
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5/29/2005 6:10:06 PM
Curses. I really didn't mean (to do) that!
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Sam F.
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5/29/2005 6:14:27 PM
A technical hint
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Mary Anne
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5/29/2005 7:14:45 PM
Yeah, the UN members have been real diplomatic with Bush!
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SDAI-Tech1
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5/27/2005 2:30:34 AM
And your point is...?
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 3:10:40 AM
It isn't about bending over and taking it from people whose bills we are paying, either.
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Tom Brosz
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5/27/2005 6:43:43 AM
You mean we aren't in arrears anymore?
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 3:21:15 PM
You want to tally it up since the organization was founded?
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Tom Brosz
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5/27/2005 6:51:10 PM
Are we that badly in debt to them?
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alcaray
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5/27/2005 7:04:45 PM
Who else does that work with?
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 7:01:59 PM
Australia
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Tom Brosz
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5/28/2005 3:22:05 AM
Diplomats are not diplomatic.
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SDAI-Tech1
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5/27/2005 4:39:19 AM
So naturally, we should allow the least of us to set the agenda. Nice.
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 3:03:02 PM
No. Let the dogs lie with the dogs.
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SDAI-Tech1
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5/29/2005 11:00:26 PM
Just as it was just about Condi Rice, the judges who have been waiting 4+ years for the "advise and consent" up/down vote thing...
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Scott Evil
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5/26/2005 8:38:06 PM
"Advise and consent" does not mean "rubber stamp".
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Mary Anne
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5/26/2005 11:06:39 PM
Of course it doesn't mean rubber stamp.
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 2:44:36 PM
You really have swallowed the whole line, haven't you?
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 3:01:01 PM
I disagree with Joan Lefkow 100%
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 4:41:42 PM
Of course you do. Don't work with the public much, do you?
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 5:17:20 PM
I feel sorry for Judge Lefcow. But she is completely wrong.
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 5:34:33 PM
As gently as I can, for fear of stirring up SamF again...
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alcaray
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5/27/2005 5:58:39 PM
I'm shaken, not stirred. ;-)
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Sam F.
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5/27/2005 7:17:56 PM
Yes. Apparently you took something differently from it than I did.
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 6:12:30 PM
Sorry, just seemed to me that you made no mention of...
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alcaray
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5/27/2005 6:54:48 PM
PS: The judge's name is Lefkow, with a K.
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 6:44:40 PM
You give me more credit for being sophmoric than I deserve!
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 6:48:33 PM
Discussion of professional errors is not the same as vilification.
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 6:24:16 PM
Do those percentage numbers again for appellate court judges.
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Tom Brosz
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5/28/2005 3:35:55 AM
Link:
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Mary Anne
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5/28/2005 2:09:07 PM
53 percent
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Tom Brosz
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5/28/2005 11:09:34 PM
Supreme Court justices don't have to be appointed from the appellate courts.
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Mary Anne
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5/29/2005 2:04:55 AM
re: Supreme Court justices
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Tom Brosz
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5/29/2005 2:19:30 AM
Not just "an" exception.
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Mary Anne
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5/29/2005 2:49:35 AM
I agree that both sides are to blame here.
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 6:45:05 PM
Wait and see if Bush nominates a hack
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alcaray
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5/27/2005 6:57:27 PM
re: Wait and see if Bush nominates a hack
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 7:00:20 PM
On a related note: It shows how poor the Congress is that no congressmen were willing to challenge her.
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 5:39:07 PM
Bolton
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Tom Brosz
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5/27/2005 1:38:53 AM
Let him put up a nominee who has the background and the temperament for the work.
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 1:49:02 AM
You're not the President
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Sam F.
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5/27/2005 12:54:27 PM
No, I'm not. I'm one of his employers.
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 2:48:12 PM
So you hired him November 2?
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Sam F.
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5/27/2005 10:38:17 PM
He is the President. He is a public servant. I am part of the public. Next!
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 11:57:06 PM
OK, and it Certainly does not mean FILIBUSTER
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p
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5/27/2005 12:31:38 AM
No? Or only when Democrats do it?
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 1:47:03 AM
Until 2001, not once in over 200 years was a judicial nominee denied appointment to the court by Senate filibuster
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p
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5/27/2005 12:48:12 PM
Mostly irrelevant
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Tony
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5/27/2005 2:32:11 PM
I accept that there are Republican hypocrites in the Senate
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 2:57:07 PM
The Dems are not "filibustering everything".
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alcaray
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5/27/2005 3:47:34 PM
Predictable.
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 3:04:08 PM
No way
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Jack Herer
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5/26/2005 12:37:58 PM
The CURRENT governments want us to stay.
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David F Mayer
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5/29/2005 5:42:33 AM
re: To bad so sad. Bush won't leave the White House until 2009
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Scott Evil
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5/26/2005 2:09:50 PM
Too bad Bush doesn't know the difference between a tough diplomat and a tough.
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Mary Anne
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5/26/2005 2:42:44 PM
It has nothing to do with dominance.
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Scott Evil
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5/26/2005 3:15:03 PM
How condescending.
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Mary Anne
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5/26/2005 6:07:52 PM
I recall most of the post 9/11 sympathy being tempered with a lot of: "You greedy Americans deserved it"
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Scott Evil
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5/26/2005 8:30:55 PM
Oh, go look up what people wrote and did back then.
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Mary Anne
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5/26/2005 11:17:16 PM
Faulty memory.
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alcaray
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5/26/2005 10:22:21 PM
More than likely: "selective memory".
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Fox
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5/27/2005 1:59:45 AM
re: Too bad Bush doesn't know the difference between a tough diplomat and a tough.
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p
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5/26/2005 2:48:48 PM
And have we paid the bill? No.
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Mary Anne
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5/26/2005 3:06:24 PM
What do you mean that we haven't paid our bill?
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Scott Evil
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5/26/2005 3:15:58 PM
re: What do you mean that we haven't paid our bill?
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Mary Anne
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5/26/2005 6:31:18 PM
I think you are right, I was under the impression that we were current.
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 6:04:23 PM
If nothing will change, why is it so vital to put Bolton's keister in a UN chair?
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Mary Anne
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5/27/2005 6:53:24 PM
Yep. It's about Bolton.
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Tom Brosz
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5/28/2005 4:00:11 AM
It is. He's not qualified.
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Mary Anne
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5/28/2005 1:09:28 PM
re: Good point
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Scott Evil
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5/27/2005 7:02:23 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.