LIVE THREAD:Senate vote to confirm Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court;(UPDATE: Alito Confirmed 58-42)

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[ken5050]

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?

[frankjr]

"...looking at each other's private parts?"

Why? They both have the same ones.

[cajungirl]

Post 801,,hhahahhhahhahaha

You are so bad!!

[ken5050]

Is SDO'C's resignation legally binding..could she recant it?

[TonyInOhio]

Did Baucus from Montana, Democrat, vote AYE?

Didn't catch it, sorry.

[ChadGore]

C-span has the vote . .still in progress . . 58Y to 39N

[Fester Chugabrew]

AYE! BUMP!

[G.Mason]

Uh ... okay

With the risk of sounding trite ... what do you read?

I believe that was what I had alluded to.

[kimmie7]

CSpan2 has 58 Aye, 39 Nay up right now...

snuck into the boss's office early. ;-)
he's there and doesn't care....lol

[Severa]

Yeah I'm watching it on FoxNews now. Pretty good coverage.

[puroresu]

Yes! He was listed as against Alito.

[nuffsenuff]

Ensign - Aye?

[I still care]

Isn't that funny, how she is missing?

The DU'ers don't like that...

[DCPatriot]

They are all waiting until the magic number of 51 is reached, so that the record will show that they voted for him when they vote "AYE"???

[maggief]

Glad Ensign made it. :)

[Da Mav]

Many thanks Peach for the ping on Senator DeMint's superb speech transcript! And by reference to Cbolt as well.

[Grampa Dave]

"I love Jeff Sessions - I wish he were my senator (Mine are Mikulski and Sarbannes - can you get any more pathethic than that?)"

My two doozies, Babbling Boxer and Diane Whinestein, may be worse.

[LisaFab]

Seems like the Dems are holding back so they can have a soundbyte of a bunch of 'NOs'.

[nuffsenuff]

Hagel - Aye.

[tioga]

Jeffords no.