Make or Break days in the US Senate !

Historic days in the US Senate

I want to be very clear with what I’m about to say. It is important. It is one of the most important events of the 21st century, so far as the US is concerned. It is simply… and up or down vote, in the US Senate, for the judicial nominees President Bush has sent, for a second time, to the Senate, for approval.

Now, Senator Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, the Senate Majority leader, has been threatening to use the “Nuclear Option” which is simply to use the rules to change the rules so that approval of nominees can be had for 41 votes instead of the 60 needed to overturn a filibuster. We know the Democrats have not changed their minds. They intend to be obstructionist to the bitter end.

Mr. Frist, and the Republicans, holds the hammer to drive this rules change home. We urge them to use it.

The time has come to fish or cut bait. The Republicans, here in the hinterlands, are extremely tired of the bait cutting. We sent all those Republicans to the Senate for just this reason… to get the President’s judicial appointments approved by the Senate. We understand that the only power still held by the Democrats is in the courts. They are still legislating, but not from the legislative branch of government, from the Judicial branch. It must be stopped.

If our Republican Senators don’t already know this, then, let this serve as a notice that we are watching every move they make. We are going to hold their feet to the fire. We do not want, nor do we expect, to have them wimp out at the last minute and come up with some kind of compromise with the Democrats. We will accept nothing less than total victory on these judicial nominees.

Let’s face it, this is the warm up for the “big show”… the approval of, most likely, two Supreme Court Justices within this President’s second term. We want the ground rules set now. We want them set in our favor!

If Senator Frist ever hopes to have a shot at the office of President, this will make, or break, him. If he pulls this off, he will most likely be handed the Nomination. If he does not pull this off, well, he can go back home to Tennessee.

Out here in “fly-over country” we are watching and waiting. The next few weeks, and months, in the US Senate, will be historic, no matter how it goes. The fate of a nation will turn on the decisions Mr. Frist and the Republicans in the US Senate make.

We wish them God Speed!

Your Obedient Servant,

”Longstreet”