[Howlin]

Estrada vote ping!!!!

[cynicom]

Yawn...Ho Hum

[pulaskibush]

They'll probably screw him over again, along with Owen. I take this and send it to every person I know. Tommorrow will be the 3rd year anniversary of their nominations.

[mabelkitty]

ASK THE DEMOCRATS HOW MUCH THIS IS COSTING OUR COUNTRY?

TWO SIMULTANEOUS FILLIBUSTERS!

[familyofman]

OK, one more time with feeling!!!

Any bets (Bennettesque) on the outcome. I'm guessing: same old - same old.

[pulaskibush]

Will this be on CSPAN 2?

Do you know what they'll do for the May 9th anniversary?

[pulaskibush]

Pinged to all in Arkansas. We should have kept Hutchinson, but right now we need to get rid of Blanche Lincoln who so far has voted against Estrada everytime.

[KellyAdmirer]

So far, the Republican Senate strategy appears to be simply to annoy the Democrats enough to convince them to give up. The electorate could care less about "getting it on the record." The record won't mean a thing next November. The Democrats may be playing with fire, but so far they haven't been so much as singed.

[white trash redneck]

I'll believe that the Senate majority is serious about judicial confirmations when they force the RATs to hold an honest-to-god continuous all night long filibuster.

[pulaskibush]

Here's the actual record

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00140

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00114

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00056

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00053

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00040

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmmmmmmmn.

Notice that they don't even attempt to assume that a 24/7/52 filibuster WILL be mandated: there's another bill schedlued right afterwards.

[TheBattman]

Cloture?

I thought the RATs were holding a fillibuster....But my memory of Civics class far too many years ago basically would shut down the Senate to all other business until the issue was resolved or put to rest. This is far from what the RATs have been doing - The senate just keeps on plugging at other business. The vote to confirm Estrada gets held up....and is now heading for a cloture vote...

Of course, I still am of the opinion that using a fillibuster against a Presidential judicial appointee's confirmation is a streach of constitutional powers.....

[OXENinFLA]

did they chamge the time?