Nowhere Man
Posted on 01/31/2006 7:09:40 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
A Democratic attempt to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. ended in failure Monday, with almost half of the Senate's Democrats voting against it — an outcome that cleared the way for Alito's confirmation to a seat on the high court today.
Massachusetts Sens. John F. Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy launched the filibuster drive last week in what they described as a last-ditch effort to halt the confirmation of Alito, a federal appeals court judge that liberals have charged is a conservative ideologue who will shift the Supreme Court to the right. The Senate voted 72 to 25 to end debate on President Bush's nomination of Alito. Democrats described the attempted filibuster, which appeared doomed from the start, as a stand on principle.
"Trying everything in our power to stop an ideological coup on the Supreme Court was the right thing to do," Kerry said. "We knew we faced steep odds, but we also knew that once Judge Alito becomes Justice Alito, there's no turning back the Senate confirmation vote."
The filibuster effort split the Senate's 44 Democrats, 19 of whom voted to end debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Nowhere Man
Naw, it was a last-bitch effort.
What if Kerry had won the 2004 election.
Man, that's a scary thought...
He's such a twit. I saw him crying about Alito getting to the SC would cause the court to move to the right.
Hey John: DUH!
Not a single one of these leftists can even imagine that Americans WANT the SC to move to the right. Moron.
Nothing like listening to Kerry and Kennedy tell us that THEY know what is "mainstream America"
The NY TIMES doesn't mention Kerry at all
but they do blame Kennedy and his choice
of James Flug as the man behind the research
of Alito's past. Kennedy admitted his
honing in on Vanguard case was also over-
done. The Dem aides (remaining anonymous,
of course) also blame Flug for the mis-flak.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/politics/politicsspecial1/31confirm.html
Come to think of it, I'm surprised Boxer wasn't helping to lead the charge. She embarassed our state with her contest-the-election stunt last year.
"Trying everything in our power to stop an ideological coup on the Supreme Court was the right thing to do," Kerry said.
Kerry knows no shame. He is cut from the same cloth as Teddy boy. They will both go to their graves as blabbering fools and their obstructionist ways will come to naught.
Give Johnny and Fat Teddy some credit. The divided the Democratic Party in a way we could never do. );-)
Benjamin, I lived in Massachusetts for 20 years, and Now am free of the state, by the Grace of God. Hang in there Buddy, fortunately it is a Big Country, and Massachusetts is a small state.
Attempting to remain awake during Kennedy's various sputterings and stammerings, other than to blame Alito (Alioto to "the swimmer") for children dying of Asthma, and the fact that he had to be working on Monday, it must have been very uninspiring even to the Kool Aid crowd.
Move.
ha! Oh what a Beautiful Morning...the day after the Kerry filabuster attempt, goes flat!
Nothing like listening to Kerry and Kennedy tell us that THEY know what is "mainstream America"...
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Amazing, ain't it? These two frothing socialists cannot get out of their socialist/Marxist dream of America redefined as a Marxist state with a Constitution replaced by the Communist Manifesto....
What Freepers can't tell from this post is how the LAT buried this story way back in the first section. Not a thing was said about Kerry's idiocy on the front page. Only a small article resides in front, about Alito carrying on the Reagan legacy.
If the filibuster had succeeded, you darn well know it would have gotten screaming 3 inch tall headlines in that liberal fishwrap.
Democrats described the attempted filibuster...as a stand on principle.
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That's pretty funny. Since when did the Democrats ever have, or even know, anything about principles?
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