LIVE THREAD:Senate vote to confirm Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court;(UPDATE: Alito Confirmed 58-42)

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[ken5050]

Good morning, all.

Join us today for the final victory lap, the vote to "confirm Samuel Alito, of New Jersey, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court."

It's all over except the final vote tally.

Lots of surprises yesterday at the HUGE vote to impose cloture, so perhaps there are still some surprise votes to come?

[defconw]

Best ever picture. I want a framed copy!

[ken5050]

You're too kind....

[Preachin']

' Who cares what "the media" says. Ginsberg's vote counts no more than Alito's. '

I agree. It's just interesting to point out how they are the willing accomplices of the left.

[airborne]

I'm sure Kennedy's staff have written up a lovely little rant for ol' Porky to read.

I tried counting the "er"'s he said yesterday, but they were practically every third syllable, so I couldn't keep up.

Regardless, it makes me laugh to watch him stumble through a speech he obviously is reading for the first time.

[ken5050]

see #34..can you accomodate the request?

[cotton1706]

Roberts should swear him in. He is, after all, the Chief Justice (heh, heh). It's going to be a great scene.

Long live Ronald Reagan for giving us such people. And also a nod to Richard Nixon for his leadership in starting so many people on their careers that influenced the path to this day.

[RobFromGa]

Let's be honest...Up until the last 15 minutes yesterday, 95% of us on the thread were all sweating it, convinced that the Dems were somehow going to pull it off..

I never thought it was in doubt, but at the very end I thought they were going to have Kennedy keel over and have him rushed out on a stretcher to delay the vote. He might have been willing to go along with it if he had thought of it.

Ever since the Gang of Fourteen took the filibuster off the table many moons ago, we have been in the lead on judge picks, that's when the Dems lost their hold. And it was the "moderate" Democrats who said "NO" to the Democrat moonbats when that agreement was reached.

Just because the 'Rats hailed it as a great victory at the time, didn't make it so. Any judicial nominee that gets filibustered from here on out doesn't have the votes to win an up-or-down vote anyway.

[Preachin']

"Alito, and Roberts, should wear the negative votes they got as badges of honor.."


It was so much fun to watch these two men keep their cool and let the democrats show the world how big of fools that they are.

I especially liked Roberts. It seemed to me that he he practiced every possible question for 12 hours a day over a 10=year period. He is far more intelligent than any of those turkeys.

Alito carried himself as a gentleman. Of course, he is intelligent, but his demeanor really made the American public take a good look at the likes of Kennedy.

So........................................ sweet!

[beckysueb]

Roberts I hope.

[yoe]

BRAVO!

[Bahbah]

Roberts should swear him in. He is, after all, the Chief Justice

It gives me such great pleasure to think of these two good and brilliant men joining Thomas and Scalia. I think we can look forward to good, solid and constitutional decisions written with clarity.

[Cboldt]

59-41

Tradesports has great odds if you want to go for 60.

         
     Aye = 57                   Nay = 40
     1 GOP yet to commit:       2 DEM yet to commit:
   
     Snowe                      Landrieu
                                Rockefeller

     DEM Crossover = 4          GOP Crossover = 1
     
     Nelson  (NE)               Chaffee   (RI)
     Johnson (SD)
     Byrd    (WV)
     Conrad  (ND)

[RetroSexual]

For the ugly, I have to nominate my own senator, Barbara Mikulski. Not a major player in these hearings, but TV screens shatter across the nation when she appears.

[maggief]

[Cboldt]

Here are just the NAY votes for the Alito cloture vote. The list also includes a cross reference to those Senators who voted against Roberts. Lots of overlap there ;-)

         
   Alito Cloture Vote

   NAYs -- 25

   Bayh (D-IN)*         Jeffords (I-VT)         Obama (D-IL)*
   Biden (D-DE)*        Kennedy (D-MA)*         Reed (D-RI)*
   Boxer (D-CA)*        Kerry (D-MA)*           Reid (D-NV)*
   Clinton (D-NY)*      Lautenberg (D-NJ)*      Sarbanes (D-MD)*
   Dayton (D-MN)*       Leahy (D-VT)            Schumer (D-NY)*
   Dodd (D-CT)          Levin (D-MI)            Stabenow (D-MI)*
   Durbin (D-IL)*       Menendez (D-NJ)         Wyden (D-OR)
   Feingold (D-WI)      Mikulski (D-MD)*
   Feinstein (D-CA)*    Murray (D-WA)
     
   Not Voting -- 3
     
   Ensign (R-NV)        Hagel (R-NE)            Harkin (D-IA)

   * 17 Senators also voted NAY to the confirmation of Roberts
     The 5 who voted NAY to Roberts who did not vote NAY to
     the Alito Cloture vote were:
     
     Akaka (D-HI)
     Cantwell (D-WA)
     Corzine (D-NJ)
     Harkin (D-IA)
     Inouye (D-HI)

[Sender]

"I just hugged my daughter close to my heart,
went into the bathroom and cried my eyes out.
Good night Democracy." -DU 1/31/06

Good Morning, Constitutional Republic! -FR 1/31/06

[Perdogg]

So, when is the "Judge Alito inaugural bash?"

[Kozak]

59-41.

Whick will drive the DU and Kos nuts thinking if they could just have gotten those numbers on the cloture vote.....

[easonc52]

Good morning and thank you for the thread!

For the cubicle bound and non tv freepers, link to http://www.c-span.org/

[xzins]

Landrieu & Snowe will both go with Alito.

Rockefeller's been put in a tight spot by Sheets.

I've gotta stick with the 59-41