"I gaaaaave my looooove a cherryyyyyy... that haaaad.... noooo... stooooones..."
Posted on 01/26/2006 2:51:07 PM PST by Pimpmygop
Wolf Blizer on "The Situation Room" reported that the republicans have more then enough votes for cloture, as many as 70. Looks like Kerry jumped the gun a bit too fast.
"That's 59, I'm sure there is one more vote for cloture in there somewhere. "
Can Cheney cast the vote?
Half of the ants actually see this as Kerry pandering to the base, fully knowing that a filibuster probably will not even be brought up due to not having enough Dim support.
The other half of the DUmp is actually getting their hope up that this will be successful. Poor DUmmies...forever being jerked around on that never ending, emotional DU rollercoaster.
UP - "Reid is a great stategist" DOWN - "Byrd is voting FOR Alito" UP - "Kerry WILL filibuster"
Hey trolling DUmmies: Monday, January 31, 2006, 11:00am. Your DUmmie roller coaster comes to a GRINDING HALT. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
"It smells like victory, doesn't it?"
When I see Alito take the oath of office will I declare it a victory. Too many crazy things have happened so I am holding my breath, waiting......
You know by Monday someone will show a fake but accurate picture of Alito pitching woo with a farm animal.
Gotta love that German aircraft, eh, Lurch?
btw...don't forget to visit John sKerry's website and sign his failed attempt to filibluster:
I hope they humiliate John Kerry for his political folly.
I sent he following message:
Kerry, kindly relegate yourself to the dustbin of history.
Chet
LMAO!!!
Well, at least he hasn't stooped to blogging for the execrable Huffington Post.
I suppose that will have to wait for the mid-term elections.
:^)
Kerry jumped the gun and now he'll request another Purple Heart.
Nice one!
Fifth : Call these "Blue State" and pro-choice
Republicans: (Message: A "Unitary Executive" is dangerous to balance of powers--please do not get in the way of a filibuster.)
Lincoln Chafee (RI)
Susan Collins (ME)
Lisa Murkowsky (AK)
Bob Smith (OR)
Olympia Snowe (ME)
Ted Stevens (AK)
LOL.
Two of those "blue state" senators come from one of the reddest states in the Union.
Both of whom-including the incorrectly spelled "Murkowski"-wouldn't help these dweebs if their lives depended on it.
Collins-from what I've heard-has already ruled this option out, and "Bob" Smith is actually Gordon Smith, and he has no intention of following Kennedy, Kerry, among others off of a cliff.
Leave it to the Kos Kiddies to be right on the money once again.
:0))
This was my intial thought . . what's the down side to Kerry filibustering Alito? He gains credibility with the people who will be key in the 2008 nomination process. He would also launch himself directly into the center of the political debate, essentially making himself the focus of the opposition party.
However, upon a little reflection, I beleive that launching a filibuster would be a disaster for Kerry and the left in general.
As it stands right now, the Senate has agreed NOT to filibuster Supreme Court nominees unless "extraordinary circumstances" occur. The Alito nomination doesn't remotly rise to that level. If Kerry launches a filibuster, it would essentially open the dorr for any future Supreme Court nominee to be filibustered for any reason.
And since it is highly unlikely that liberals will have a 60 votes to confirm any moderate left-of-center judge they might appoint in the future. So Kerry might gain some short term poitical traction with a filibuster but in the long run, his decision might force future Democratic presidents to be very judicious in choosing SC nominees.
I beg to differ.
Even if I were to assume that in some future scenario there were to be a single Republican senator willing to invoke the judicial filibuster-a scenario that I consider unlikely, at best, because of our philosophical opposition to the procedure-the notion that you would be able to find 41-or even 31-Republican senators willing to block cloture is misguided.
And I think this applies to any potential SC nominee a future Dem. president might make, even ones such as Berzon, Paez, Mikva, or Thelton Henderson.
Granted, they probably wouldn't enjoy the cakewalk that Ginsburg and Breyer experienced, but to suggest that they would be filibustered-or even voted down on the Senate floor-is absurd.
The Republican conference in the U.S. Senate does not have a collective spine, and barring any cataclysmic events in the future, it will not have one in the near or remote future.
They will not vote down, let alone, filibuster any Dem. judicial nominees, short of the general counsel for the CPUSA.
That is why elimination of the judicial filibuster-and the replacement of doddering, senescent old fools like Stevens-is so necessary while we still have the opportunity to do so.
Nope - it's not a joke. He actually posted one of his "diary messages" last week in response to the Chris Matthews' comment comparing Osama bin Laden to Michael Moore!
That boob was actually denouncing Ann Coulter-by name-during the floor debate on the Alito nomination.
If I hadn't heard it with my own ears I could have sworn that it was a bad SNL sketch.
Seriously, I was just waiting for him to launch into George Will and Bill Kristol.
:-)
Looks like John is giving up "War Hero Kerry" in favor of "Raving Leftist Kerry". I have no doubt he'll start his filibuster - Reid has already set it up for him. But I don't know how long it will last.
I saw it on C-SAPN2, live.
If you want proof of that, all you have to do is look at the comments of people such as Ms. Ann Coulter. We all know Ms. Coulter is capable of being as inflammatory and conservative as anyone in the country, often engaging in character assassination. She denounced the nomination of John Roberts. She attacked the nomination of Harriet Miers, calling her completely unqualified and lamenting that President Bush had ``thrown away a Supreme Court seat.'' Yet she celebrated the nomination of Sam Alito, stating that Bush gave the Democrats a ``right hook'' with this ``stunningly qualified'' nominee. This from a woman who said that the Republicans need to nominate a person who ``wake[s] up every morning . . . chortling about how much his latest opinion will tick off the left.''What's a bit funny and ironic is the lingering bitterness over the unfortunate mistake of making the Miers nomination.Failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork had a similar reaction. He denounced the Miers nomination as ``taking the heart out of a rising generation'' of conservative constitutional scholars and ``widen[ing] the fissures within the conservative movement.'' Yet he praised Alito's nomination as ``substantially narrowing'' that rift. In fact, he called the nomination something to ``rejoice'' because if Alito were confirmed, it would only take ``one more Justice of the Roberts-Scalia-Thomas-Alito stripe to return the Court to so-called jurisprudential respectability.''
Let's not forget conservative stalwart Pat Buchanan who denounced the Miers nomination as revealing the President's lack of desire ``to engage the Senate in fierce combat to carry out his now suspect commitment to remake the Court in the image of Scalia and Thomas.'' Apparently, Mr. Buchanan believes that the Alito nomination demonstrates the President's change of heart. He heralded the nomination as one that would unite and rally the base, a nomination for the base, not the country.
They say you can tell a lot by somebody's friends. These three individuals are consistently on the furthest edge of the ideological spectrum. Their positions rarely advance the interests of average working folk in America. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that these folks have jumped to support Judge Alito.
Bwahahahahahahaha.
"Jumped the gun or Hillie set him up. If it was a set-up, he's an idiot for not suspecting it."
I agree...but he's already proven repeatedly that he's an idiot. hitlery probably did set him up, it's easy to do, he's their useful idiot 24/7/365 and too stupid to realize it.
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