[SmithL]

They're in disarray now? Wait til Darth-Bader Ginsburg needs a replacement.

[new yorker 77]

CNN reporter that Democrats on condition of anonymity say there are 70 votes for Cloture.

[SF Republican]

Wait til Darth-Bader Ginsburg needs a replacement - just mentioned this morning how much fun that one is gonna be. Unfortunately I am not sure there will be a democratic party then; it will be more of a club.

[Uncle Hal]

It is my hope that Bush has a chance to appoint a third justice too the SC. Then you would really see the Dems squirm.

[EagleUSA]

Bring it on -- and this will be the FINAL test of the Repubs.

[goalinestan]

They're in disarray now? Wait til Darth-Bader Ginsburg needs a replacement.


That's going to be great...exploding heads here we come...wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[SoDak]

The stupid Dems have known all along that they couldn't filibuster Alito. They played this so that red state Senators could vote to appease their home state voters, so that hard-left blue staters could feel like their guy did everything he/she could to stop Alito, and so John Kerry can appeal to the base for the nomination in 2008.

[popdonnelly]

Never again will a Ruth Bader Ginsburg sail through the confirmation process.

[Tall_Texan]

The GOP just needs to threaten that any filibuster of Alito will need to be a 24/7 event not just a "when we feel like it" filibuster.

I want to see Fat Teddy at 3 a.m. reading from the Washington D.C. phone directory, particularly all the Arabic names that start with "A".

[Dog]

-- 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.

Red on Red fighting...I love this.

[Bush gal in LA]

My dream scenario of how this all plays out?...........The idiot RATS are successful and filibuster Alito on Monday.. Frist goes ballistic and nukes em! Alito is sworn in right before the SOTU!...... Then the next day justice Stevens decides to retire, Bush puts in Bork,. Then Ginsberg retires the next day Bush puts in Janice Rodgers Brown. After all you gotta have woman represented right? ......Yeah I know its just a fantasy, but I can dream cant I?..............

[siunevada]

"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.

We Want Kerry!

We Want Kerry!

[Congressman Billybob]

The Democrats are doing their feeble imitation of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Egged on by incompetent leaders, they are beginning a fight which can only end in disaster. At least those who were sacrificed in the Light Brigade's doomed effort in the Crimean War came out of it with a legendary poem for their sacrifices.

The Democrats will come out of this one in a foolish position which will cost them a handful of seats in the House, and perhaps two seats lost in the Senate.

"Into the valley of Death rode the 500...."

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Senator Ted Kennedy and Mrs. Alito's Tears"

[Crawdad]

They might have sent Kerry out, then cut him off at the knees.

[BunnySlippers]

Two of the party's Senate leaders, Harry Reid of Nevada and Charles Schumer of New York, privately made clear their unhappiness with the strateg

Trouble in paradise. Wonder when we'll hear about the internal catfight.

[Gunder]

What's especially wonderful is that Ginsburg, Kennedy and Stevens could all be retiring in the near future. The mind spins with possibilities!!!!!!

[mrsmith]

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.

[Tarkin]

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.

[LostInBayport]

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.

[Figment]

"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?

[Soul Seeker]

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.