As info: Kos has a solid 13 names that will vote for Phil A. Buster with 2 undecided who had previously been listed in the "No on cloture" field.
1 Barbara Boxer (D- CA)
2 Dianne Feinstein (D- CA)
3 Christopher J. Dodd (D- CT)
4 Richard J. Durbin (D- IL)
5 John F. Kerry (D- MA)
6 Edward M. Kennedy (D- MA)
7 Paul S. Sarbanes (D- MD)
8 Debbie A. Stabenow (D- MI)
9 Harry Reid (D- NV)
10 Hillary Rodham Clinton (D- NY)
11 Charles Schumer (D- NY)
12 Ron Wyden (D- OR)
13 Russell D. Feingold (D- WI)
14 Barack Obama (D-IL) undecided
(?) (see update)
15 Robert Menendez (D-NJ) undecided
Does anyone besides me think the futility of this exercise will be realized just before the cloture vote and the "debate" will be ended by UC and the vote for confirmation taken as scheduled Tuesday?
....and yeah I know, shower time. Gotta hit the treadmill first though.
When Dianne Feinstein fears for Chimpy Sheahan's threats and acting accordingly, it shows that democrats are in deep trouble.
This guy is already trailing in the polls for the NJ senate seat.
That ought to cook his goose.
Yep. I think that it will be clear before 4:30 PM Monday that Alito has 60 votes to confirm.
Maybe DiFi's thumbering her nose at idiot Cindy now?
"As info: Kos has a solid 13 names that will vote for Phil A. Buster with 2 undecided who had previously been listed in the "No on cloture" field."
Whoopee - 13 names! What about the gang of 14? These idiots just want to show their left-wing wacko base that they're working for them, so they can get more $$$s (I suspect Soros has been ringing their phones off the hook, too).
From a post I made yesterday - gang of 14 i not going to go along w this:
"Another Gang of 14 member on board to help end the filibuster. Does anyone have a list of all gang members committed to stopping the filibuster?"
Don't have a list of those who are committed to stopping filibuter, but here is the gang (from one of your posts, Cboldt). The only ones that I could see voting no on cloture from the list below might be Inouye, and that's just because I don't know that much about him. Landrieu and/or Salazar might if the Dims pressure them enough, though they both stated the other day that they would vote no to confirm and yes on cloture. IMHO, Salazar would get blasted at home as CO has a lot of Pubbies and he barely won over Coors. Landrieu might not vote to confirm, but I think she needs to be careful about voting no on cloture, because she wants $s for LA for Katrina. Pryor said he would not support a filibuster.
Also, according to a poll on Rasmussen, people in AR (Pryor), CO (Salazar), CT (Lieberman), and WV (Byrd) support the confirmation. That said, as of last Nov, so did people in WA, but my 2 bimbo senators are useless, in fact, I read last night that when a WA FReeper called Cant-do-well's office, they said she hadn't made up her mind and was meeting w Alito on Monday - -what the heck for, except to stall (and, she's up for election this year)!!!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/January%20Dailies/Alito%20Confirmation%20by%20State.htm
A. Future Nominations. Signatories will exercise their
responsibilities under the Advice and Consent Clause of the
United States Constitution in good faith. Nominees should only
be filibustered under extraordinary circumstances, and each
signatory must use his or her own discretion and judgment in
determining whether such circumstances exist.
E. Benjamin Nelson (D-NE)
Joe Lieberman (D-CT)
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Ken Salazar (D-CO)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Mike DeWine (R-OH)
John Warner (R-VA)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Lincoln Chaffee (R-RI)
http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/compromise.pdf
10 posted on 01/27/2006 1:06:16 PM PST by Cboldt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566404/replies?c=4
and cboldt's additional great info:
Gang-of-14 Positions Relating to Alito Filibuster.
Caveat: I took an announced vote FOR the nominee to be a postition against filibuster, to narrow the search. Seven of the fourteen have announced being FOR the nominee.
Of the remaining seven, three are against filibuster. That leaves a maximum of four Gang-of-14 Senators being willing to cast a vote for filibuster. None of them has expressed an intention to vote for the filibuster.
The anti-filibuster vote is 59, by adding Chaffee, Landrieu and Pryor to the 56 AYE votes for the nominee. In order to defeat the cloture motion, the DEMs have to get all four of the "NONCOMMITAL on filibuster" below (Inouye, Lieberman, Salazar and Snowe). That would clearly signal the death of "extraordinary circumstances," and would validate the use of the nuclear option.
But even getting all four of the "NONCOMMITAL on filibuster" from the Gang-of-14 wouldn't be enough to sustain a defeat of the cloture motion.