Oh. We have a one-man confirmation/rejection process now, eh?
I don't think so.
McLame, Chaffee, Warner, Collins and Snowe WILL join him. ... Result: 49-51 against.
So be it. If the Senate votes on the nomination, and it goes down, the process will have worked. Hopefully the Senators will be on record regarding their justification, and the people can consider that at the next election.
Specter on Alito, 1990
[Kathryn Jean Lopez 10/31 07:17 AM]
Alito’s nomination to the federal Court of Appeals deserves “clear sailing.”
http://bench.nationalreview.com/archives/081294.asp
I think that I was not clear in what I wrote.
What I was trying to state is that the "gang of 14" is now clearly not the only group in play, but that other "moderate" Republicans are no longer dependable votes if it were to come to a "nuclear option" vote after a cloture vote failed, and Specter, in particular. With the "conservative movement's" abandonment of any pretense that the nomination process should be governed by what is written in the Constitution, a whole host of other "moderate" Republicans are now released from even lip service to considering that to be important.