Alito Filibuster is Impossible, There are 60 Votes for Cloture (Links Show)

The Pueblo Chieftan, The AP via Yahoo! Newss, CNN.com

[new yorker 77]

55 GOP Senators will vote for Cloture

LINK: Salazar opposes filibuster to block Alito confirmation
From 'The Pueblo Chieftan'

LINK: Byrd, Johnson to Vote Yes
From The AP via Yahoo! News

LINK: Landrieu Against Filibuster, Nelson 'Yes' Vote
From CNN.com

That's 60 Votes for Cloture.

[West Coast Conservative]

Add Feinstein.

[Molly Pitcher]

Has a vote for cloture been scheduled? Right now the Senators are still talking, but the list is getting shorter and shorter...

[Gordongekko909]

Aww, but Kerry wants to filibuster! And I want to give him some more rope! Not that I'm disappointed that Alito's confirmation is nigh, but jeez!

[mainepatsfan]

Kerry probably doesn't call for one otherwise. He's just trying to get on the good side of the Dummies.

[llevrok]

Are all the RINO's accounted for? They tend to stampede left.

[302damnfast]

Well, I sure hope Frist has it together better than a lot of folks on FR today. I swear it's like being at DU with all these people insisting that we should legitimize the practice of judicial fillibusters by not going nuclear...

[EGPWS]

I, at times have wished for a filibuster to be the straw that breaks the "Democratic camels back".

Oh, what a tangled political web they weave.....

[oldleft]

You can bet Lieberman won't support a filibuster.

[new yorker 77]

4 GOP Senators have not pledged to vote 'YES' or 'NO'.

Stevens, Collins, Snowe, and Chaffee.

All may not vote for confirmation, but all will vote against a filibuster.

[Gordongekko909]

Yeah, Lieberman's down. So is Byrd, believe it or not. He actually announced that he's going to vote for Alito.

[new yorker 77]

I called for the nuke option months ago.

I'm just trying to show how it won't even come to that.

[FormerACLUmember]

Did you know that Kerry filibustered in a haughty, French style on Christmas in Cambodia?

[Always Right]

The good thing about the Dems filibustering, it will give the GOP some balls to filibuster a Democrats Supreme Court nominee. The Democrats are once again raising the bar in partisan politics. Which may be good, because maybe we can shut down government for good.

[302damnfast]

I hope you are wrong that it won't. I really hope you are...

[oldleft]

I just can't believe that even one of the moderate/conservative Democratic Senators will support a filibuster. They may not agree with Alito (or Alioto as Teddy would say) but they have not leftist base to appease, like the liberal Dems do.

This may go further towards fracturing the Dems and creating a third party.

[new yorker 77]

He the kind of guy who would say, "Uh uh uh. Ahh France."

[Gordongekko909]

He's the kind of guy who would read postmodernist philosophy, in French, for sixteen hours.

[dead]

It would be overkill for them to go nuclear when a simple cloture vote will do. They are not going to do that.

[The_Victor]

I realize the filibuster is currently defined as refusing a cloture vote, but can't any Senator filibuster any Senate activity simply by taking to the floor and refusing to stop speaking?