DU is back up and some poor guy is saying the DUmmies really won today because without their phone calls, e-mails, etc. there would have been no filibuster at all.
I hate to break it to this guy, but there was NO filibuster. If Frist's request for cloture had failed to get 60 votes, then there would have been a filibuster. That filibuster would have either succeeded in stopping Alito's confirmation (if cloture never did get invoked) or failed after a pretty good fight (if cloture was finally invoked on the second, third, fourth, etc. attempt). Or the filibuster could have been nuked by the nuclear option.
But since cloture was easily achieved on the routine first request from Senator Frist, there never really was a filibuster. It was a faux filibuster which never had the votes to block even the routine first request for cloture. It wasn't even close.
It was best described by someone as a filibluster.
They claimed a moral victory after the 2004 elections, too. Now that they've redefined winning, they're guaranteed to continue their incredible streak. I wish them every success.
Just keep on "winning" like that, pinky.