Pierce-ing Posts (042906)
Pierce-ing Posts, daily until the election, is sampling current blog posts both in and out of the S.O.B. Alliance, going to Old Media coverage, and bringing important prior posts to the attention of late-comers to Ohio’s US Senate contest.
Don’t forget to visit Bill’s site, his blog, and his Contribute page.
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FROM THE CURRENT BLOG CROP
Right Angle Blog Picks up a 16-vote Swing (Bill Pierce +8 Mike DeWine -8)
From Cleveland Townhall (no link provided; indicated link does not go to forum post) — “At our last monthly meeting, one of our special guests was Bill Pierce, who’s running in the Republican primary against Mike DeWine. Most everyone there was very impressed with Pierce, and based on the conversation I heard afterwards, the DeWine camp should be concerned because I think they lost at least 8 votes that they were able to count on last election.”
OLD MEDIA MORSELS
Thanks to DeWine, the Left Is Close to Winning Many Judicial Nomination Battles by Default
A subscription-only editorial in The Wall Street Journal makes that very clear:
There are 17 vacancies on the appeals bench, including nine pending nominations. They deserve to be filled as soon as possible before the summer recess.
An excellent place to start would be to finally vote on Terrence Boyle, whom Mr. Bush has named to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Boyle was in Mr. Bush’s original group of appeals-court nominees on May 9, 2001, after having failed to get a vote when he was nominated a decade earlier by the President’s father. Judge Boyle, who has served on the federal bench for 22 years, had a hearing more than a year ago and was voted out of the Judiciary Committee in June. His plight is similar to that of William Myers, whose confirmation hearing for the Ninth Circuit also took place more than a year ago.
….. We guess we should be happy that no one is talking about filibusters these days. This time last year, the fight over the Democrats’ unprecedented use of the judicial filibuster was coming to a head and Republicans were threatening to change Senate rules to prohibit its use. The single biggest accomplishment of the Senate last year was breaking the filibusters to confirm a string of highly qualified candidates for the appeals courts and then going on to confirm two Supreme Court nominees.
The advice-and-consent clause of the Constitution gives the Senate the duty to vet all federal judicial nominees. Now it’s time for the remaining nominees to have the up-or-down floor votes they deserve.
The editorial was written a month ago. Note how nothing has happened. Note that Mike DeWine is on the Judiciary Committee. Note that Mike DeWine has uttered not a word of complaint about the lack of action.
BLOG BLASTS FROM THE PAST
Bill Pierce visited the lion’s den, so to speak, when he was interviewed by the left-leaning Meet the Bloggers group in March. Though there were obvious disagreements on issues, Bill nevertheless left favorable impressions with the interviewers — an outcome that bodes well for getting independent and crossover votes in the general election. Here is Writes Like She Talks’ summations of Part 1 and Part 2. Audio files are here.
