Posted on 01/29/2006 2:58:46 PM PST by NapkinUser
Reuters reports Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Democrats lack the votes to block Judge Alito's confirmation:
"Everyone knows there is not enough votes to support a filibuster," Reid said, referring to the procedural roadblock that some Democrats wanted to use to put off a vote on Alito.
Even after Senators Feinstein and Reid flipped flopped and decided they would now support Kerry's filibuster against Alito, there are still seven Democratic Senators who have said they will not support a filibuster against Alito's confirmation:
Akaka
Biden
Conrad
Dorgan
Durbin
Landrieu
Pryor
Salazar
Then there are the three Democrats who have announced they will vote for Alito's confirmation - Byrd, Johnson and Ben Nelson.
No Republican senator will support Kerry's filibuster. Even the two Republicans that haven't revealed whether they will vote for Alito's confirmation, Chafee and Snowe, say they will oppose a filibuster.
According to the Boston Globe , Kerry won't find more than 30 votes:
But high-ranking Senate aides said the best Kerry and Kennedy can hope for is to persuade 25 or 30 Democrats to sign on -- well short of the 41 votes they need to lock in unlimited Senate debate and kill the nomination.
Reid said he would support Kerry's filibuster "to at least send a message." Sadly, the message is that the Democrats are obstructionist sore losers.
You got that right. They know without the filibuster being permanently, they still hold out hope that they can prevent the next Bush nominee to the Supreme Court (assuming of course the next nominee doesn't perform as well as Roberts and Alito, both of whom clean their clocks). Maybe even more importantly, they don't want to see Bush nominate any Latino or Black judges because that would go against the stereotype the Rats try to foist onto Republicans. Nope, "Wouldn't be prudent"
He is by far, the oldest Justice. He's 85!
Ginsburg is another one. If she has to, she'll crawl through nails and broken glass to her office every morning, praying with every inch that the Workers of the World will unite and impeach George Bush before she shuffles off this mortal coil.
These pinko hollow shells are psychologically driven in an obsessive way and will never throw in the towel. Their clanking chains will be heard in the dark, ghostly halls of justice forever, it seems.
Leni
I suspect the "normal" demonRATs are all but being drowned out by the rabid LOONY LIBERAL LEFT (LLL) which has hijacked this party. Wander over to DUmmie land if you dare, or listen in tomorrow to Errhead Amerika and they are burning up the phone, fax, and e-mail cables to their RAT senators trying to get them to pull a Phil A. Buster. The LLL states "this country will be lost for ever if Alito is confirmed and we will go back 50 years on our civil rights gains" (read: gay rights, abortion, mandated diversity programs, abortion, all Roosevelt/Johnson social programs, abortion, etc.).
They are delusional - mental, if you will. Let 'em stay that way.
And Feinstein cowed (no pun intended ) by Sheenan into flip-flopping on the fillibuster......how can she be trusted to do the right thing in time of war.....[we already know the answer]
I just don't understand why, to the Dems, the USSC is only balanced if they have a majority of libs sitting on the bench. There are 9 of them so at any given time its always going to be 5 to 4 at least. I wonder why they think the American people want a majority of libs.
And now Mother Shehann has stabbed her in the back and says she is going to run anyway. LOL
Reid is reading from the same script as Little Tommy was, and that tells me that they are both puppets for whomever is pulling the strings.
I think the Harriet Miers incident also sent the message to the Pres. to take the nomination. Take it seriosly or your base will eat you alive and 2) Take no prisoners and make sure you get a bona fide Conservative on the court.
The discovery of the "nuclear option" by the Republicans, however, has made it so that in effect no party will be able to "bork" a supreme court nominee as the democrats have been doing. Unfortunately, the implication of that is that the Republicans also will not be able to filibuster if they lose the majority and the left will be able to ram through "Ultra Leftwing Extremists".
/found a sane voice in the Moonbat Fever Swamp [DU]. We need to co-opt this one before he figures something else out ;)
"That's a point I made a few days ago Indylurker. If you were Bush why fear a filibuster? Right now he's facing an electoral defeat and maybe an electoral realignment in November. He knows this.
Why not have a giant fight over this to reshuffle the deck completely? Why not let the Democratic senators filibuster? In the meantime spend millions on a public relations campaign to turn the public against the Dems. Have important bills stacked up which can't be passed until the "Liberals finish their temper tantrum." Let Jay Leno tell Ted Kennedy jokes night after night for weeks.
Meanwhile keep the focus groups and polling going and if public opinion turns toward the Demcratic side, then you can end it by going "nukular". But in the meantime, let the Democratic senators roast in public opinion for a month or three with the government "shut down."
One thing we saw with Newt Gingrich was that a confrontation like this is easily started, but not easily ended without looking like total capitulation. Just think about Bush so far. Is he going to compromise and pull Alito's name? That doesn't sound like Bush to me. He'll let the filibuster continue and hope it ruins the Dems in the next election. If Bush is anything, he is disciplined."
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