Big Week in the US Senate

This week will tell the tale on the Supreme Court nominees to come before the Senate in the next few months. Word is quietly filtering thru Washington, and the Republican ranks, that there will be two Supreme Court Justices retiring soon after this term of the Court ends. So what happens this week in the US Senate will decide whether Conservatives get their Conservative Justices confirmed to the Supreme Court, or not.

Senator Bill Frist, the Majority Leader in the Senate, has said he will bring one of President Bush’s nominee’s to the federal bench before the full Senate this week. If that happens, we will see the so-called “nuclear option” finally brought into play. Simply put, it would not allow filibustering of judicial nominees.

If the current nominees to the Federal Bench get thru the Senate, and are confirmed, the Democrats fear the President will choose two of them as the new Supreme Court Justices… and as they will have already been confirmed once, by the full Senate, it will be nearly impossible for the Democrats to stop them from gaining their seats on the Supreme Court. Republicans will have effectively broken the liberal stranglehold on the Supreme Court. Once the Supreme Court has been set free of the Left’s grasp, they, the Left, will be completely out of power. The courts are the last bastion of Leftist power left in the US government. The Left has used the Federal Courts as their “legislature” for too many years and have instituted laws, by judicial fiat, in this country, which have no basis in the Constitution. It is well past time this be corrected.

We will know, this week, if the Republicans, we conservatives sent to the Senate, are serious about governing, or are too scared to govern. If it turns out to be the latter, we recommend they take early retirement… or we will do it for them at the next election.

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”