[RobFromGa]

Let's be honest...Up until the last 15 minutes yesterday, 95% of us on the thread were all sweating it, convinced that the Dems were somehow going to pull it off..

I never thought it was in doubt, but at the very end I thought they were going to have Kennedy keel over and have him rushed out on a stretcher to delay the vote. He might have been willing to go along with it if he had thought of it.

Ever since the Gang of Fourteen took the filibuster off the table many moons ago, we have been in the lead on judge picks, that's when the Dems lost their hold. And it was the "moderate" Democrats who said "NO" to the Democrat moonbats when that agreement was reached.

Just because the 'Rats hailed it as a great victory at the time, didn't make it so. Any judicial nominee that gets filibustered from here on out doesn't have the votes to win an up-or-down vote anyway.

[G.Mason]

Senator Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy, January 30, 2006 babbling at the podium:

"We have doubled the number of deaths from asthma this year than we had five years ago, doubled the deaths for children.

I wonder why that is?

I don't know what you tell the mother when they see the children having that intensity.

We pass laws, the president sign them, they go to the court in terms of interpretation, and where will this nominee come out?

Will he come on out for that mother who has a child that's got asthma

or that parent who's seeing the pollution that's taken place in a pond

-- in a lake

-- and whose child has been affected by those kinds of poison? "

Keep in mind that this miscreant is talking about children, the children that he so cavalierly supports killing in the womb!