{"id":4519,"date":"2005-06-23T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4519.html"},"modified":"2005-06-23T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T16:17:37","slug":"im-sure-hell-take-it-under-advisement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/im-sure-hell-take-it-under-advisement\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll take it under advisement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/23\/AR2005062300788.html\">It&#8217;s a good letter<\/a>, and I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s generating some attention, but I&#8217;m not optimistic about its success.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Democrats are urging President Bush to consult with them on a possible Supreme Court nomination to help avoid the kind of controversy that engulfed his lower court picks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way to avoid the divisiveness and discord that occurred over past judicial nominations is through consensus and cooperation in the selection of future candidates,&#8221; the Senate Democrats said in a letter sent to the White House on Thursday. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The letter, signed by 43 of 44 Democrats and independent Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, called bipartisan cooperation &#8220;the best path to a fair and reasoned confirmation process.&#8221; The Democrat who did not sign, senior Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, &#8220;agrees with the thrust and the concept of our letter but felt so strongly about the issue he is sending his own letter,&#8221; Schumer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Upon receiving the letter, Andy Card called an impromptu meeting in the Roosevelt Room with Karl Rove and Dan Bartlett where they passed the letter around. &#8220;Can you believe it?&#8221; Card asked, struggling to speak while in hysterics. &#8220;The Democrats expect us to <i>consult<\/i> with them! About a Supreme Court nominee! To make the process less divisive and contentious!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The laughter could be heard outside the building.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Note<\/em>: The description of the Roosevelt Room meeting is a dramatic interpretation for the purposes of humor. It probably didn&#8217;t happen this way. The laughter was probably only audible throughout the West Wing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good letter, and I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s generating some attention, but I&#8217;m not optimistic about its success. Senate Democrats are urging President Bush to consult with them on a possible Supreme Court nomination to help avoid the kind of controversy that engulfed his lower court picks. &#8220;The way to avoid the divisiveness and discord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}