Sen Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the previous chairman of the judicial committee now being led by Sen Arlen (I promise to get floor votes on nominees) Specter (R-PA), discusses the compromise deal made last week in Human Events. He could be a candidate for the Coalition of the Chillin’ given his take on the current state [...]

When the MSM just can’t help itself and displays its bias Example 1: “It is depressing to see how many normally independent Republicans have already put on the blinders.” In the sense they are blind to NYTimes biases and political desires? Doesn’t that make them independent? Example 2: “But this time, the charge comes from [...]

The EU constitution is truly a disasterous piece of work. Way too long and filled with policy – not a political and legal framework for states to work together under – it should, for the sake of Europe, be voted down. I have held off on this subject (too busy chillin’) but the pending vote [...]

The WashPost today has an article that reinforces my position regarding the nominee games going on in the Senate and their potential impact on the 2006 Senate races. The democrats will continue to lose senate seats if they cannot attract the non-aligned, independent voters from the middle of the electorate in a manner that doesn’t [...]

Those upset at the compromise Monday seem to have felt vindicated Thursday night when the democrats filibustered the Bolton nomination for no good reason (except to demonstrate to the moderate middle why they should not vote democrat if they want respect of differences and achieving results back in our government). Ed Morrissey sees this as [...]

[Hat Tip to Newsmax on this one] 69% want the democrats to stop filibustering and give nominees up or down vote. The bombshell survey found that 35 percent “want to see the filibuster rules changed so that those judicial nominees are subject to an up-or-down vote,” Gallup said. Thirty-four percent “want to see the filibuster [...]

I have to start a new post on this great project started by Mark Coffey at Decision ’08 (a new found gem of a blog I will be visiting regularly now). His “Coalition of the Chillin’” is growing rapidly. And many have come to similar conclusions as did the Strata-Sphere. See the Blog Roll of [...]

No surprise here, except maybe the vote total. The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Priscilla Owen as a federal appellate judge, ending the four-year ordeal of the Texas jurist who was thrust into the center of the partisan battle over President Bush’s judicial nominations. The 56-43 vote to appoint Owen to the New Orlean-based 5th U.S. [...]

We will need to see how the Rossi case on the 2004 governor’s race plays out before we know what could happen in 2006. If Rossi ends up in the Senate race it is a near lock and Rep pickup (towards the +3 seats I predicted for 2006) as Polipundit illustrated with some recent polling. [...]

I have been amazed at how many people have latched onto extreme, incomplete scenarios to decry the recent Senate deal on the filibuster. These extreme scenarios are all one sided: the reps are the losers and the dems the winners. What is stunning is both the left and right are sharing these same visions. But [...]

The left is raging, the right is depressed, and the rest of us get to sit back and wonder. Why is the right so bummed out when they get three confirmations and nothing regarding the rest of the nominees? The predictions about Myers and Saad being dead are simply silly. All that came out was [...]

I have posted on this subject earlier here and here. Today is the day the House of Representatives decide what kind of nation we are. One that gambles with the unproven approach to harvest human beings in their earliest stages of life (“embryo” refers to a stage of life, not a form of life) that [...]

Well, if you realize bloggers are simply people expressing themselves through a forum that allows communication of ideas to unlimited numbers of other people for next to nothing cost-wise – yes. People can change the world.

I started out debating politics over the internet on forums. The best one, and the one I have stayed with for coming on 5 years now, is the Opinion Forum (OP) at Delphi Forums [note: you can enter as guest]. The moderator and his team are great and allow the most open, free flow of [...]

I caught the so called agreement to avoid the filibuster showdown, and what a show it was. The ‘moderates’ will allow Priscilla Owens, Janice Rogers Brown and David William Pryor to go to a floor vote. They make no decisions on two others (Saad and Myers). And they withold the right to use the filibuster [...]