I thought he was retiring?
jtminton wrote:Byrd thought he was voting on whether to serve Banana Pudding in the Senate cafeteria.Patriot814 wrote:I thought he was retiring?
Byrd voted yes, shows he's worried about re-election.
mowkeka wrote:This was the up or down vote. The vote on cloture (to end debate) was 81-18. That ended the filibuster. And once that happened, there's no way to "re-filibuster", so the confirmation vote was next on the schedule.
So I heard that we only got 57 votes or whatever.
Can someone please explain to me, who is not that familiar with Senate rules.
It's okay that we didn't get 60 because the Democrats didn't "officially" filibuster?
It is interesting to note that on the clotuer vote, one of the seven Dems that signed that "Memorandum of Understanding" (or whatever it was) did not vote for cloture as promised in the agreement. Senator Inouye promised to vote for cloture but failed to vote at all. Yeah, the seven dwarves say we should trust these people. They've already dishonored their agreement. And the media completely ignored it. So did most Freepers. Trust, but verifiy.