LIVE THREAD: Day ONE - Senate debate on nomination of Samuel Alito to SCOTUS: C-span 2; 9:30 am EST

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[ken5050]

Good morning once again, all you fellow political junkies. Put on a fresh pot of coffee, put the sticky buns in the oven, put a fresh battery in the remote control, and join us for the latest episode of the world's greatest daytime soap opera, "As the Democrats Bloviate." Yup, once again, it's that time...

[ken5050]

Oh, ye of little faith..

[ken5050]

Beats me...

[syriacus]

I thoroughly enjoyed your well-written "intro."

[syriacus]

Quorum call.

[maggief]

Appearing on NBC's "Today" show, the Arizona Republican said that "no one wants us not to be able to eavesdrop on a conversation, listen in on a conversation between an al-Qaida operative and anyone else that could be a threat to the United States."

Asked if he thought Bush had broken the law, McCain replied, "I don't know. I want to be perfectly clear. I don't know the answer. That's why I welcome the hearings."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012500534.html

[ken5050]

Thanks for the kind words..though I'm already dead wring..no opening fireworks..

[newnhdad]

there has to be a more efficent way of doing this.

[SoFloFreeper]

Screw that "11 PM" crap. Keep the Senate awake all night. The 'rats want to have "debate", then let 'em have DEBATE. Have 24-hour sessions and hold a vote at 8 am on Friday. Let's get it done, Frist.

[Pukin Dog]

You have framed the situation very well, dude. I think things are going to turn out much like you described them. Nice post.

[maggief]

Borrowing the words of McCain, I don't know. ;)

[Mayflower Sister]

Is it my connection or is Cspan breaking up?

[LdSentinal]

If Frist truly want to become President, he will use the NUKE option if there is a filibuster.

[Founding Father]

Breaking up.

[small voice in the wilderness]

The Peacocks are preening before the cameras. This is just going to be tortureous today. Pure torture.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Did you see where C-Span temporarily had Nelson from FL as a "yes"? (They had both Nelson of FL and Neson of NE as "yes").

What a joke!

I said to my wife "there is no way that yes man lackey would vote for Alito. Got to be a typo." He is a clone of Bob Graham, just a yes man to the RAT power brokers.

[RoseofTexas]

Exactly!! Forget about the Clueless bit we've been hearing about the RATholes!! They're not CLUELESS, hell no, they are bitter and HATRED is driving them to the grave! Screw the American folk, Screw the Laws of the country, screw everything that is honorable and good, WE WANT OUR POWER BACK rain or shine they want it back. No matter if America is destroyed in their process of gaining back the power the people denied them!! They're agenda is DESTROY everything America stands for!! So let's not say they are Clueless, because they know EXACTLY what they are doing. They are a bunch of HATEFUL, spiteful, evil RATHOLES! Enough with the CLUELESS crap!

That's my 2cents worth..:)

[Founding Father]

Suffering through the first of what may be thousands of quorum calls. This maneuver is really chicken____.

[ken5050]

Thanks, PD...though I'm already dead wrong..no opening fireworks..indeed, Reid hasn't even deigned to appear..

[ExSoldier]

They are waging a campaigner that plays very well in three places: Inside the Beltway, in the MSM, and in their hard core base. But those three do not make a political majority..they fall far short of it.

The Dems are a fragmented and imploding party. For years...decades...they have been a party of disparate cliques each with it's own unique agenda and many directly clashing with the aims of other Dem groups. For example, the blacks usually take issue with the homosexual agenda. Only the wild eyed radicals from every group have the personality charisma to hold it all together in a sort of shaky truce. None of these extreme groups wants to give up a seat at the table and gosh darn ~singing off key~ they're not gonna take it anymore ~

The sad reality is that they think they're speaking for mainstream America and they really haven't a clue. Some of the hard core base has already deserted them at crucial times because of the (correct) perceptions that the Dem agenda and platforms do not in effect support many of the dearly held beliefs of those groups. Case in point: UNIONS have always enjoyed a huge piece of the Democratic party, and they pour big bucks into the machine. The union leadership is solid, but they can no longer guarantee to deliver the union votes.

In 2000 the rank and file in West-by-God Virginia ignored the union calls to vote the party line. They voted their guns instead. The Dems ignored the gun issue in a state where the first day of deer season is a school holiday! Same thing for the rest of the south.

[Petronski]

A little levity, apropos of nothing: