ConfirmThem

I hope this comment from the Delewareonline web site is true:

Jordan is one of six Circuit Court and 10 District Court judges the Senate hopes to approve before its scheduled Friday adjournment. It may return after the November elections for a lame duck session if it fails to finish its work this week.

Hopefully they will confirm more than just six. How about 11 Senator Frist?

There are only two COA judges on the executive calendar at the moment - Randy Smith and Kent Jordan. Probably only Kent will get a full floor vote before the election break. Keisler, Boyle, Myers and Haynes may get out of committee on Thursday, but it will be too late to do anything with any of them. I anticipate that Boyle, Myers, Haynes, Wallace and Smith will all be sent back to the White House on Friday. Keisler too may get the same shabby treatment. If this happens to all six, then none of them will be able to get confirmed in the 7-10 day lame duck session scheduled in mid-November due to time constraints. I anticipated the stall on the nominations of The Controversial Five, but I didn't realize that the Republicans were so afraid of the Democrats that they would even balk on Keisler. I don't have to wait until Friday night to say, "I told you so," about Republican lip service. It was due to Republican absences that The Controversial Five and Keisler were not passed out of committee earlier. Their underhanded strategy to appease the Democrats makes me sick.

And who were the missing members? If even one of them was from the Gang, then your told-you-so is putting it very, very mildly!

History will show that Republicans wasted a huge opportunity to change the rules on how judges are treated by an obstructionist minority. I usually support the stupid party, but they are now only slightly better than the evil one on many issues.

The one person it's almost impossible to blame for much of these woes is Specter. He held up his end of the bargain for the most part. The worst offenders on our side of the aisle are Frist, the gang of seven, and an occasional absent SJC member or two in some order. Pitiful.

Senators, rushing to fill vacancies on the federal appeals and district courts before they leave for the October recess, ....

The only argument for the Republican Senators are the Democrats. Ugh.

Over at BenchMemos, K-Lo quotes someone at yesterday's SJC meeting to the effect that the lack of quorum was due to Republican senators' disgust at Specter's refusal to challenge Leahy on Keisler. I don't know if this is spin control by some Republican staffer fearful for his boss's reputation, or if Specter really is the problem, but either way someone should've stood up to the powers that be and demanded a vote on Keisler.

http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDViNzA4NDQwNWEyM2ZhN2ViODAwYzRk...

he obviously made his other committee meeting a higher priority than this one. There may have been a good reason for that, but its still true that he and Hatch sunk this meeting.