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Coulter calls for "huge court battle" to benefit GOP election hopes

April 12, 2010 9:36 pm ET

From the April 12 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (April 12, 2010 9:43 pm ET)
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      What happened to the Freedom Alliance Scholarship money, Hannity?

      Did any female FOX interns travel to Freedom Concerts with Hannity?
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    • Author by magnolialover (April 12, 2010 9:45 pm ET)
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      I wonder how she thinks that this would benefit republicans? Look what impeachment did to them when they went after Clinton for really no good reason.

      Sure, make it a court battle. Republicans will come out looking foolish, and, dare I say, litigious? I thought you guys weren't all about stupid lawsuits and court battles? Oh, right. Only when it's for things you don't believe in.
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      • Author by dogbreath (April 12, 2010 9:56 pm ET)
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        Given the fact that Republicans are already rumbling about filibustering the nominee, despite the fact that the person hasn't even been selected as of yet, shows you how incredibly incompetent the Republicans have become. The only Supreme Court nominee to be filibuster was Abe Fortas, if memory serves. I think the Republicans will be able to show the country, once again, just how far they have slipped off the rails. The whole thing might rally the base (what do they not do now a days to rally that group), but will turn off independents, who tend to not like confrontational politics.
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        • Author by magnolialover (April 12, 2010 10:00 pm ET)
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          This is what is amazing to me. The fact that these guys, some of whom have said they will filibuster Obama's nominee regardless of who it is, aren't even trying to pretend that they're playing along. Remember, Bush got his 2 picks without too much arguing from folks. Dems didn't filibuster. Some threatened, but they never did it. They brought out Bush's nominess to the floor for votes.

          That's part of the deal of winning. You get to possibly pick SCOTUS nominees. And if they do filibuster, and then if dems lose the Senate this year (not likely), then I hope that the dems remember what the republicans did after they took over, and stick it up their as*es.
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          • Author by dogbreath (April 12, 2010 10:07 pm ET)
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            Agreed. The Senate is the most dysfunctional body in the government, bar none. Political parties have replaced institutional cohesion and we now have nothing but a playground fight during every session. The fights continue to get more and more serious and nothing gets done. Will the Senate ever recover? I don't think so, it's been broken beyond repair.
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            • Author by magnolialover (April 12, 2010 10:38 pm ET)
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              I think that you might be right. The only way that we can get things started, and done again, remove the filibuster rule. Do it now. Do it when republicans are running, I don't care, but just get rid of it.

              The republicans ruined it. It went from a seldom used tool to be used sparingly by the minority party, to, cloture is attached to EVERYTHING moving through the Senate, which is ridiculous. It was really never meant to do that.

              It's so ingrained now from the republican overuse of it, that when some journalists report on a bill going into the Senate, they say that it needs 60 votes to pass, which isn't true. It needs 60 votes to cut off debate, and then get to a real debate.

              I hate to use the word "unprecedented", but the GOP's use of the filibuster since they lost Congress in the 2006 election is, and will continue to be, unprecedented.
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              • Author by pilotx (April 13, 2010 12:55 am ET)
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                This is what happens when Wyoming has the same number of senators as California or New York.
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        • Author by Midnight Kevin (April 12, 2010 10:40 pm ET)
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          It's great news for their base!!! They are eating this crap up!

          Republicans will soon learn what it is like to just preach to the choir.
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          The Midnight Review
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    • Author by The_Cat (April 12, 2010 9:46 pm ET)
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      Ann? We passed tort reform as part of the health coverage reform bill, so your court battle will be laughed off as the ranting of a mad woman. In a lovely twist of irony, it was the Republicans that really were desperate to include it, you betcha.
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      • Author by magnolialover (April 12, 2010 9:52 pm ET)
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        Even though, in the States where tort reform was passed, it hasn't impacted the cost of insurance. At all. It's brought down lawsuit costs, but hasn't done anything to change insurance costs.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (April 12, 2010 9:46 pm ET)
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      If Liberal Justices are so radical and activist, why are Conservative Justices more likely to strike down Congressionally passed statutes? Could it be they are more activist? Nah, it has to be something else.
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    • Author by dimes (April 12, 2010 9:52 pm ET)
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      Who's gonna pay for this "huge court battle"?
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      • Author by magnolialover (April 12, 2010 9:53 pm ET)
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        Richard Mellon Scaife.
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        • Author by neon desert (April 12, 2010 10:24 pm ET)
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          When Ann says "court battle", she actually means "political battle" over the next SCOTUS appointment. Keep that in mind every time you hear her say it. Basically, she's just promoting the current "just say 'no'" Republican't strategy.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (April 12, 2010 9:52 pm ET)
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      Gee, I hope there's a huge court battle over the money from Hannity's Freedom Concerts not finding its way to the families of killed and wounded servicemen. And I hope we hear the judge say the word "FRAUD" a lot...
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    • Author by princeofwheels (April 12, 2010 10:03 pm ET)
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      Who is ANN COULTER? Wasn't she the chief beeitch for the Cons?

      Sorry ANN COULTER, Mrs. Palin has replaced you. Now go write a book.
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    • Author by mjh (April 12, 2010 11:27 pm ET)
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      Coulter calls for "huge court battle" to benefit GOP election hopes


      But Annie -- the last time there was a "huge court battle" to benefit a GOP candidate {i.e., Bush v. Gore}, weren't you and your fellow wingnuts the ones screaming about how it wasn't right??

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    • Author by little poncho (April 13, 2010 10:01 pm ET)
         
      when little annie, comes on tv, time to hit the remote......what does she know----------- NOTHING, WORTH LISTENING TO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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