Dr. Dobson
Dr. James Dobson, the influential founder of Focus on the Family, has just about had it with former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, whom he accused of cutting a deal with Democrats in the upper house that would preserve their right to filibuster judicial nominees.
Dobson told another pro-family leader, American Family Association's Don Wildmon, in a radio interview yesterday that he was "disgusted and alarmed" about the deal he heard about from a "totally reliable source."
According to Dobson, the Lott deal with the Democrat leadership would prevent Majority Leader Bill Frist from invoking the constitutional option – sometimes referred to as the "nuclear option" – to stop the Democrats' continued filibuster against the president's conservative judicial nominees.
Dobson said Lott and five other GOP senators will join six Democrats in the arrangement. "The deal, which Lott denied yesterday, proposes that four of the 10 filibustered judges would be confirmed – but that the filibuster would remain intact."
Dobson concluded: "It's past time to stop the nonsense. Win or lose, the Republican leadership must call for the constitutional option vote, and do so without any more delay."
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