21 Announced NAY Bayh Biden Boxer Cantwell Clinton Corzine Dayton Durbin Feinstein Harkin Inouye Kennedy Kerry Lautenberg Mikulski Obama Reed Reid Sarbanes Schumer Stabenow 2 Uncommitted Akaka Rockefeller
Evan Bayh...again?
I thought he could be converted from the Dark Side. You know he's running for President now.
If the next Dem presidential candidate comes from the nay list, he will lose. Americans believe in a firm judiciary more than any other political issue. In NC the entire state government is run by Dems. The only place where NC voters will consistently put Republicans is in the State Supreme Court and in Federal Office. To counter this, the state government has now made judicial elections non-partisan.
Let's hope the Dems choose their candidate from the nay list:
Bayh
Biden
Boxer
Cantwell
Clinton
Corzine
Dayton
Durbin
Feinstein
Harkin
Inouye
Kennedy
Kerry
Lautenberg
Mikulski
Obama
Reed
Reid
Sarbanes
Schumer
Stabenow
Akaka
Rockefeller
Rockefeller trying to decide how red WVa has turned, I guess?
Did I just hear C-SPAN announce Roberts swearing in is scheduled for 3:00PM this afternoon?
Do not underestimate the RATs to make a small "statement" on this vote. Expect something like 70-25 with 5 abstains.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484912/posts?page=750#750
Pinging for later....
john kerry:
"I will vote against the nomination of John Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the United States.
I refuse to vote for a Supreme Court nominee who came before the Senate intent on demonstrating his ability to deftly deflect legitimate questions about his views, opinions and philosophy.
If he is confirmed and he may well be the Roberts Court will shape the course of constitutional law for decades to come. It will decide dozens of cases that will define the depth and breadth of freedom in America our commitment to civil rights, our dedication to civil liberties, our devotion to privacy and a woman's right to choose.
With that much at stake, Judge Roberts needed to show us where his heart is. Instead he recited case law and said little about what he really thought.
While I recognize that other members of the Senate will legitimately make a different choice, I will vote NO on the Roberts nomination. "
If Bayh, Biden, Boxer, Cantwell, Clinton, Corzine, Durbin, Feinstein, Kennedy, Kerry, Lautenberg, Mikulski, Obama, Reid, Sarbanes and Schumer, among others, are against him, he must be the right man for the times we are living in. Praise!