Posted on 01/31/2006 5:48:48 AM PST by ken5050
Edited on 01/31/2006 5:55:34 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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?
Is she trying to say. "My mother should have been allowed to kill me, dammit"!
The vote is scheduled for a time certain. There is a unanimous consent agreement that covers the last 40 minutes, 10 minutes each for Leahy, Specter, Reid and Frist.
NO! < pouting > I'm cubie bound!
Ah, the Coretta Scott King factor has surfaced. It must be a sign that Alito will turn back the civil rights of Americans. THey are desperate and despicable. Is there anyone or anything they won't exploit in order to win?
These pigs tried that stunt with Larry Flynt paying a million dollars for dirt.
That dirt stuck to the dems and this vicious attempt at blackmail will as well.
Teddy was on with Charles GHibson this morning on Good Morning America..... talk about sucking up.
He just makes me puke!
I cannot fathom the mentality of those that vote for vermin such as Kennedy and ... (far too many to mention here)
Maxine Waters? Suffice it to say that I would be permanently banned from FR should I say what I truly feel about that form of life.
Hey. We're listening to a plagiarist-in-chief here. Get used to it.
Just wait until the next nominee!!!!!
Short of an outside event overtaking the Senate as a whole, this is done. You'll have the rest of the day off.
Thanks, Cboldt, for putting up Senator DeMint's excellent comments from the senate floor in Post #362.
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060131/NEWS07/601310346/1010/NEWS
Ensign suffers minor injuries in SUV crash
Deck Hed
ANJEANETTE DAMON
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
Posted: 1/31/2006
U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., was hospitalized briefly Monday morning following a head-on collision in Las Vegas.
Ensign suffered cuts and bruises, but no serious injuries, in the 8 a.m. crash on Paradise Road, according to press secretary Jack Finn. Ensign's aide, who was driving him to the airport, also suffered minor injuries. Finn refused to name the aide for privacy reasons.
Ensign, 47, was in a Mercury Mountaineer when an oncoming Ford Explorer drifted into his lane and hit the senator's sport utility vehicle "almost head-on," police spokesman Bill Cassell said.
The driver of the Explorer, who was not identified, told police he fell asleep while driving, Cassell said. It was not clear whether that driver was hurt.
A third car rear-ended the Mountaineer after the head-on crash. That driver was not injured, police said.
"He's a little sore," Finn said of Ensign. "He got stitches in his elbow and they took some shards of glass out of his hand. But he's feeling pretty good, considering, and obviously very lucky."
Ensign spent about three hours in the hospital, missing his morning flight to Washington, D.C. Ensign missed the Senate vote to end a short-lived Democratic effort to filibuster Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Late Monday, he was trying to find a flight that would have him back in Washington in time for the vote to confirm Alito to the court.
"He missed the cloture vote, which he's disappointed about," Finn said. "He's hoping to get back for confirmation."
(snip)
Condolences!
I'd say catch it on C-Span later, but they sure did chop it up last night instead of playing everything that was said. Seemed to me that mostly I saw repeats of Harry Reid's righteous indignation pre-buttal speech.
Shameless ghoul.
Leni
yup , Jeff Sessions is quikly becoming my fave,
... I actually sat in front of the TV and listened to him
Leaky Leahy up now . . speeking about division.
LOL!
maybe I should have been clearer...
for what purpose are they still talking....?
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