"I don't think he's going to get many votes from Democrats on the committee," Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), a New York Democrat on the committee, told CBS' "The Early Show." "As for a filibuster, it's something we'll have to discuss. So it's not on the table or off the table right now."
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After that distinguished panel of elite judges from the entire range of the ideological specturm went effusive in their praise of Alito; any attempt at a fillibuster would crash and burn. Bring it on.