RPG Advocate
21st February 2004, 12:46 PM
Bush uses eecess appointment to bypass Senate filibustering (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/20/bush.pryor.ap/index.html)
Yeah, the Democrates in the Senate should allow the formal confirmation vote to happen rather than filibustering, but Bush shouldn't be bypassing the Senate as a politically expedient method to appease his core voting bloc for the general election.
While I would be against any president bypassing the Senate in this way, it bothers me more when the subject of such a bypass is a radical like Pryor:
In an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pryor claimed that despite public statements that the Roe v. Wade decision was gthe worst abomination in constitutional law and history,h which ghas led to the slaughter of millions of innocent unborn children,h he would issue judicial rulings on abortion based on law and precedent, not his religious beliefs.
In the course of his tenure as state attorney general, Pryor has gone to court to support posting the Ten Commandments in public buildings in Alabama, to support laws criminalizing homosexual relations, to oppose the Violence Against Women Act, and to deprive state employees of protections mandated under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Speaking to the Senate panel, Pryor declared that he knew of no case where an innocent person had been executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. He also confirmed that he and his wife had scheduled vacations and travel to avoid gay pride days in Alabama and at Walt Disney World, because they regarded such occasions as morally dangerous for their young daughters.
[ Source (http://wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/crts-j30.shtml) ] - Yeah, the source is a Socialist web site, but the facts about Pryor's ideology are correct.
Yeah, the Democrates in the Senate should allow the formal confirmation vote to happen rather than filibustering, but Bush shouldn't be bypassing the Senate as a politically expedient method to appease his core voting bloc for the general election.
While I would be against any president bypassing the Senate in this way, it bothers me more when the subject of such a bypass is a radical like Pryor:
In an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pryor claimed that despite public statements that the Roe v. Wade decision was gthe worst abomination in constitutional law and history,h which ghas led to the slaughter of millions of innocent unborn children,h he would issue judicial rulings on abortion based on law and precedent, not his religious beliefs.
In the course of his tenure as state attorney general, Pryor has gone to court to support posting the Ten Commandments in public buildings in Alabama, to support laws criminalizing homosexual relations, to oppose the Violence Against Women Act, and to deprive state employees of protections mandated under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Speaking to the Senate panel, Pryor declared that he knew of no case where an innocent person had been executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. He also confirmed that he and his wife had scheduled vacations and travel to avoid gay pride days in Alabama and at Walt Disney World, because they regarded such occasions as morally dangerous for their young daughters.
[ Source (http://wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/crts-j30.shtml) ] - Yeah, the source is a Socialist web site, but the facts about Pryor's ideology are correct.