Posted on 01/29/2006 2:27:33 PM PST by Pukin Dog
You're off.
I looked back at my posts to you; they were all quite calm.
Your strident tone is very telling.
Oh dear, yet another PD UnPrediction?
Say it isn't so?
What?
Hey Howlin' are they scheduled for the vote tomorrow, or is it going to be Tuesday???
Yes, we do. It will not be necessary because seven Democrats have promised not to filibuster and three others have already announced that they will vote for Alito, and so would be improbable candidates to vote against closure. That leaves only 35 votes (counting Jeffords) to support a filibuster, which is 6 shy of what is needed.
Therefore, there is no real downside for those 34 (forgetting Jeffords) Democrats to support a filibuster and look good for the benefit of the bitter, socialist, lunatic fringe (the Democrat "base"). The filibuster will fail and normal America will generally ignore the attempt - - unless the GOP can think up some clever way to make it look as pathetic (and anti-Italian, anti-Catholic) as it is.
I am not sure; I heard cloture vote on Monday and real vote on Tuesday, but then I heard they may not vote until Tuesday?
In Massachusetts, I think they call that a resume enhancer. At least it works for Teddy Kennedy, Barnie Frank, Gerry Studds...
One way or another, he will be at the SOTU address either in the front row or sitting with Laura in the gallery.
The Dems are going to look like fools if they don't vote on Tuesday. This is the one address that many of the American people follow. The President can hammer them bigtime at the address.
Just commenting on the fact that PD likes to make these predictions, most of them based on "inside" information, yet rarely do they come to be as he predicts.
Or he'll be sitting up next to Laura and Bush can point to him as yet another example of Democratic bungling and delaying the government.
Works for me.
Oh, I didn't know it was a "serial" kind of thing.
Hope he has been measured for his new robe.
We need a Kerry/Sheehan ticket in '08! : )
Oh, serial is a good term for it.
He knows I know who he really is, so he won't be talking to me.
To prove a political point to boot!
Yes, cloture Monday and the confirmation vote on Tuesday.
That's the schedule Frist announced originally.
I see no reason the votes won't go as planned, although I am pretty sure there will be frivolous rat attempts to disrupt and obstruct and make the process really ugly. Look for some arcane parliamentary manuevers from that bloated, drunken murderer Ted Kennedy, as well.
Regards,
LH
There are two scenarios "open" at the moment. Three if you count the possibility of a cloture vote failure (i.e., successful filibuster). Since the nose count shows no way for a successful filibuster, there are really just the following two possibilities:
1. Cloture vote on Moday at 4:30 PM, followed by a vote on the nomination at 11:00 AM Tuesday.
2. Reid and Frist agree to "vitiate" the cloture vote - which means to pretend as though it passed without bothering to hold the cloture vote. This is actually quite common. In that case we'll hear a unanimous consent agree ment to that effect, with the vote on the nomination still to be at 11:00 AM Tuesday.
Caveat: Since the Senate is free to change its mind all over the place, there may be a vote on the nomination earlier than 11:00 AM Tuesday. But I doubt it for no reason other than predictability of scheduling.
I think you're right about the dirty tricks, but did hear they expect him to be sworn in by noon on Tuesday.
But I did hear something about postponing the vote until Tuesday. I am probably wrong about that though.
Regardless of what these "Davis filibuster freaks" think, the rest of the Democratic Party had to know that if they went that way, it would be the last filibuster they ever pulled.
scnario #2 would save face for the dem's. They can claim the evil republicans still have them on the plantation.
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