Organizations that seek to change our Constitution and pursue an extreme liberal ideology use the Democrats' unconstitutional judicial filibuster to further their quest for liberalizing America, which depends on activist judges to elevate their agenda.
Recently, ABC News and The Washington Post released a poll showing that the public, by a ratio of 2 to 1, rejected changing Senate rules making it more difficult for liberal Democratic senators to obstruct final action on the president's judicial nominees.
The poll was a farce; in the poll sample selected, 47 percent identified themselves as Democrats while only 38 percent identified themselves as Republicans.
The poll is a sham to fool the American people into believing the majority of us are against changing, for the purpose of confirming judicial nominees, the filibuster.
The poll question deals with a Senate rule initiated when the Democrats were the majority. The question asked, "Would you support or oppose changing Senate rules to make it easier for the Republicans to confirm Bush's judicial nominees?"
If the poll had dealt with Article II, Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution, even some Democrats would have to agree that all 100 senators should be given the opportunity to vote up or down on judicial nominees, or any nominee selected by the president.
The Post-ABC poll was rigged from the beginning. A more scientific poll was conducted by The Judicial Confirmation Network. Their survey of 800 registered voters refutes the ABC-Post poll.
Ayres, McHenry & Associates reveal that 82 percent of Americans think qualified candidates for the courts deserve a full Senate vote, and that 78 percent think all 100 senators have a constitutional duty to vote on judicial nominees.
Nearly 70 percent of those voting agree that politics should be taken out of the confirmation process.
The president's power is to appoint. The senators "advise and consent"--the latter meaning voting up or down, not filibustering.
Mildred M. Fischer
Fredericksburg