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Democrats squabble over Alito filibuster; approval seems certain
AP ^ | 1/27/6 | David Espo

Posted on 01/27/2006 3:27:29 PM PST by SmithL

WASHINGTON -- Long-smoldering Democratic dissension flared openly Friday as liberals sought support for a last-minute filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito against the advice of leaders worried about a backlash in the 2006 elections.

"I reject those notions that there ought to somehow be some political calculus about the future. ... The choice is now," said Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the party's 2004 presidential candidate and a White House hopeful for 2008. He said it was imperative to fight for "those people who count on us to stand up and protect them."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced she would support the filibuster, despite saying earlier this month that she did not see anything that would justify one.

"Based on a very long and thoughtful analysis of the record and transcript ... I've decided that I will vote no on cloture," Feinstein, the only female member of the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. Cloture would end debate and bring the nomination to a vote.

Two of the party's Senate leaders, Harry Reid of Nevada and Charles Schumer of New York, privately made clear their unhappiness with the strategy, even though they, too, oppose Alito's confirmation. And Rep. Harold Ford, seeking a Senate seat in Republican-leaning Tennessee, dismissed the filibuster approach openly.

"It does not appear that there is any reason to hold up a vote. I hope my colleagues in the Senate will move quickly to bring this process to a dignified end," he said.

Despite a decision by Kerry, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and others to try to block a final vote, leaders of both parties agreed that Alito's confirmation was assured for next Tuesday. The 55-year-old appeals court judge would replace Sandra Day O'Connor, who has cast deciding votes in recent years in 5-4 rulings...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; alito; alitovote; filibuster; senaterats; sorelosers
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To: SmithL
AP doesn't do a very good job here of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Pete Yost's rewrite will be better at shaping the story for the DNC.

41 posted on 01/27/2006 4:21:36 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: Gunder

Is there a conservative Hispanic female on anyone's USSC short list?


42 posted on 01/27/2006 4:27:39 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (It is easy to call for a pi$$ing contest when you aren't going to be in the line of fire.)
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To: Gunder

LOL, I think that would be great! It might benefit us if he appoints here as soon as congress comes back in September. That way they'll be in full scream during the elections.


43 posted on 01/27/2006 4:30:41 PM PST by McGavin999 (If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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To: hipaatwo

Guess who just joined John Kerry at the KOS looney bin? None other than Ted "Splash" Kennedy.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/27/181051/879


44 posted on 01/27/2006 4:48:19 PM PST by Chickenhawk Warmonger (Join the chickenhawk express at www.chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com)
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To: hipaatwo
"Barbara Boxer (D- CA), Dianne Feinstein (D- CA), Christopher J. Dodd (D- CT), Richard J. Durbin (D- IL), Debbie A. Stabenow (D- MI), Robert Menendez (D- NJ), Harry Reid (D- NV), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D- NY), Charles Schumer (D- NY), Ron Wyden (D- OR), Russell D. Feingold (D- WI)."

Now thats a nice covey of moonbats..

45 posted on 01/27/2006 4:50:37 PM PST by lstanle
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To: SmithL
Wait til Darth-Bader Ginsburg needs a replacement

Or Stevens. At least one of them may well retire and/or die in the next couple of months. The liberal heads are going to literally explode.

46 posted on 01/27/2006 4:52:47 PM PST by Tarkin (Impeach Justice Ginsburg)
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To: SmithL
I admit to not being fully versed in the filibuster debate, but it seems to me that once again (as I've heard Rush Limbaugh say) the Democrats are about to step in a big pile of excrement.

I believe that polls demonstrated that a comfortable majority of the public approves of Judge Alito. I think if the Democrats succeed in the filibuster, the public will be behind Frist using the 'constitutional option' to nuke the filibuster. After all, they see nothing dreadful about Alito...

So aren't the Dems once more cutting their own throats?

Rush is right...they defeat themselves. At least they do something right.
47 posted on 01/27/2006 5:11:11 PM PST by LostInBayport (Massachusetts liberals refuse to admit we exist...we are the 37% of MA voters who voted for GWB)
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To: SmithL

"And Rep. Harold Ford, seeking a Senate seat in Republican-leaning Tennessee, dismissed the filibuster approach openly"

What the hell does Jr's opinion have to do with a Senate debate? What is Harold Jr's opinion on his aunts removal from the Tennessee Senate on vote fraud?


48 posted on 01/27/2006 5:11:45 PM PST by Figment
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To: hipaatwo

Wow .. the Gang of 13

Gee .. what a lucky number


49 posted on 01/27/2006 5:26:12 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Bush gal in LA
Go ahead, little liberals. We'll trade your little tirade for Janice Rodgers Brown.

And then? All Your Base Are Belong to Us.

50 posted on 01/27/2006 5:47:04 PM PST by Reactionary
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Walk the party line...they are ALL guilty of it. Blue State CT is safe haven especially with Dodd on his side


51 posted on 01/27/2006 6:39:30 PM PST by NYKbyD (I will Never Forgive, I will NeverForget)
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To: Congressman Billybob
"Into the valley of Death rode the 500...."

Oopsy, I think you goofed.


Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!

Charge for the guns!' he said:

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

Actually, there were 637 men involved of which 247 died.

Congratulation on the terific job you have done with the Alito/Kopechne connections.

52 posted on 01/27/2006 6:44:35 PM PST by DeSoto (Veni, vidi, velcro ... I came, I saw, I stuck around !)
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To: Bush gal in LA

He's dirt to us -- but appears to be a hero with the moonbats... I bet the moonbats will be singing a different tune if RBG retires and they cannot filibuster.


53 posted on 01/27/2006 6:56:36 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

I can't take reading that stuff.... I particularly liked the response to him from the guy who just knows his phone and computer were tapped.


54 posted on 01/27/2006 7:03:14 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: hipaatwo

Committed to Filibuster:
Barbara Boxer (D- CA), Dianne Feinstein (D- CA), Christopher J. Dodd (D- CT), Richard J. Durbin (D- IL), Debbie A. Stabenow (D- MI), Robert Menendez (D- NJ), Harry Reid (D- NV), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D- NY), Charles Schumer (D- NY), Ron Wyden (D- OR), Russell D. Feingold (D- WI"

SO, Hillary is going to out Kerry Kerry? There goes her moderate stance. Thank you Karl Rove.


55 posted on 01/27/2006 7:34:32 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We don't need POLITICIANS...we need STATESMEN.")
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To: SmithL

I'm getting a kick out of this. Was it not three months ago they were slamming G.W.B. for being a putppet of the"right wing extremists" that torpedoed Harriet Miers, and yet, here they are jumping for the Left wing extremists. LOL

The difference is that those of us objecting to Miers mostly didn't so on a) ideological grounds and b) are in touch with the majority of Americans. Kos and buddies are not.


56 posted on 01/27/2006 7:55:04 PM PST by Soul Seeker (Mr. President: It is now time to turn over the money changers' tables.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

they do tend to be quite paranoid. i've read about 4 threads over the last few days about DUmmies believing that they have been "visited" by the Feds or spied on. It's a scream what these morons believe.


57 posted on 01/27/2006 8:30:46 PM PST by Chickenhawk Warmonger (Join the chickenhawk express at www.chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

If they are doing outlandish things to draw attention to themselves then maybe they are being tracked. When I read some of the things these people believe the government has reason to be concerned by some of them.


58 posted on 01/27/2006 9:03:48 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Congressman Billybob
I juat happened upon this thread, so am late with this.

You being a student of history are aware, I am sure, that the Light Brigade was part of the massive assistance rendered by the British Empire (officially Christian) to the Ottoman Empire (state religion Islam, which had massacred and persecuted Christians for centuries) against the Christian empire of Russia. That'w why the Charge of the Light Brigade is doubly tragic, in that they died valiantly defending evil.

59 posted on 02/23/2006 6:09:36 AM PST by wildandcrazyrussian (Islam is no more a "religion of peace" than communism was an "economic system of peace".)
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