Clinton to support Alito filibuster

Newsday ^ | 01/27/06 | GLENN THRUSH

[Pikamax]

Clinton to support Alito filibuster Says she’ll join Sen. Kerry in blocking Alito’s nomination, putting her at odds with top Democrats

BY GLENN THRUSH WASHINGTON BUREAU

January 27, 2006, 9:41 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday announced she'll join potential 2008 presidential rival John Kerry in voting to filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, just as top Democratic leaders predicted the effort is likely doomed.

With three Democratic senators pledging support for Alito, the New Jersey conservative seems virtually assured of being confirmed by the full Senate Monday or Tuesday, party leaders predicted Friday. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters in Washington that "everyone knows" Senate Democrats couldn't muster the 40 votes needed to support a last-ditch filibuster.

[Howlin]

Honest to goodness, I spend more time shaking my head than getting mad.

It's beyond the realm of anybody being able to understand it. I ran out of descriptors MONTHS ago...........LOL.

[SeaBiscuit]

"And yes, I think BillyBubba is a big part of this "decision" by Hillary on the move to the left. She doesn't make these kinds of decisions without consulting him."

I agree, remember this slip;

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
-- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.

[Howlin]

ROFLMAO!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The thing is ..... do all these DUmmie senators who are doing this pandering NOW because they are not up for re-election think we're going to forget about this when they are?

[Txsleuth]

If he is....the media is surely facilitating his ladder climb...

Last week, he was Timmy Russert's only guest on Meet the Press...and this week he is on Stephy's show...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Any DNC POTUS candidates who haven't chimed in for the loony leftists?

Anybody heard from Al Sharpton?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Funny, some tried to warn the Washington Democrat elite about him, but in their arrogance they ignored the warnings.

Of course, because they think he's "stupid".

[gov_bean_ counter]

Ma Richards tried to warn them against making that mistake too.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The "real" Democrats -- and you know there are some (I bet Robert Byrd is FURIOUS about this) -- will NEVER forget Kerry did this -- he's DEAD now; they will simply ignore him and he'll die on the vine from lack of attention.

You know Byrd doesn't like this one bit when lashing out at his own party for sending Mrs. Alito to tears and lashing out at anyone who has been guilty of the charge of politicizing this whole process, all the while quoting directly from the Constitution, and some here were scratching their heads when Byrd supported John Roberts for CJ of the USSC.

His speech on Thursday should have laid to rest all the wonderment and confusion, whether you like the guy or not.

He's disgusted, his constitutents -- most, if not all of them lifelong Democrats -- are disgusted, and the majority of Americans are disgusted about just how far we have come and how low the partisans will go.

Senator Byrd, who I disagree with him 95% of the time, said in less than an hour what I've been thinking of all this process for the last 4 years.

The biggest disappointments I believe are Kent Conrad (D-ND), Max Baucus (D-MT), and Joe Lieberman (D-CT), who don't even have the hearts and minds of their own constituents at hand.

Each one of these, who I would call "saner" Democrats are in the tank with the DUmmies, the MoveOn bozos, and the rest of the leftist kook fringe element in this country.

As for Baucus, my father simply said "That a$$hole".

[Howlin]

But we can't forget how many rungs of the ladder this country descended when it comes to respect and honor of the office and our institutions. From Begala and Carville (have you ever heard them give a thoughtful speech as Rove has done) who sold Clinton with the same approach one sells fast food, to the goons he sent out to defend him during the impeachment, to Stephanopolous who had all of the sense of the gravity of his position as a teenager.

Oh, absolutely; I'm not dismissing that one bit; for all intents and purposes, they "set the table" for this anything goes sprint we're in now.

He lowered the bar so low, Bush's bringing back decorum and honor to the office has been a huge slap in the face to them.

I just never FEARED for the country as a whole as I do now; and I do mean "as we know it."

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

And don't forget that closet muslim....Senator Osama Obama

He's on record as saying the filibuster was pointless and that there weren't enough votes.

[Chena]

I was just thinking about that when I was watching the Panel on Brit's show; it's not about principle with them; it's about VOTES. Juan even said that now Kerry can say "I stood up against Alito," even though it's a lost cause. I'll be damned if I'd be in a party that wanted America to lose a war, or hoped the economy would tank, or some other disaster would hit the country, or REQUIRED me to smear a good man just so I could get their votes and stay in power. 217 posted on 01/27/2006 9:23:43 PM AKST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? -

I watch Brit's show too and I wish some of the Lib/Dems would watch it and learn. Oh well, that will never happen. I believe that the Dem's have shot themselves in their collective feet this time with their politically motivated slap-shots at Alito. Now they don't have a leg to stand on. heh heh

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Tack to starboard, and then tack back to port.

[Txsleuth]

For most of them...it doesn't matter...look at Kennedy, Kerry, we don't have to go through the list of why these two guys shouldn't even be in the Senate...

but, the electorate either doesn't care, or is too lazy to find someone better.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Too funny.

[Howlin]

Thanks. It's just as hard to write it as it is to read it. I'm not trying to be overly dramatic; there's just no escaping it, IMO.

I think because we always like to work within the facts of any given situation, the "why" always comes up; and I think because we're not like "them" we have a hard time accepting the fact that they really don't feel the way we do about this country, this government, and its institutions.

I thank God every single night my mother and daddy didn't raise me a liberal!

[Torie]

River sailing sucks.

[Chena]

Honest to goodness, I spend more time shaking my head than getting mad. It's beyond the realm of anybody being able to understand it. I ran out of descriptors MONTHS ago...........LOL.

We know it's real bad when we have to use a Thesaurus to find new words to describe the idiocy of the Left. I shake my head alot these days too. I shake mine so much that I've now started to consider it an aerobic exercise! LOL

[Howlin]

I don't "do" or "get" Oprah.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The most beautiful part of this is that Kerry, never one to shy away from a TV mike, took this on from OUTSIDE the country.

And from a five-star resort! It just shows how much he really cares for "the little people". LOL!