Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito

CNN ^ | January 26, 2006

[West Coast Conservative]

Unclear if Massachusetts Democrat has votes needed to block nominee

Thursday, January 26, 2006; Posted: 4:23 p.m. EST (21:23 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN's Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday. Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.

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[Choose Ye This Day]

Futility, thy name is Kerry.

[evets]

http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/26/144159/751

[Yo-Yo]

Blow it out yer SwiftHole, Johnny.

[llevrok]

Bring it on, Frenchie !

[Always Right]

Follow me to the promise land!

[TheBigB]

Kerry? Never heard of 'im ; )

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Kerry further sinks his political career.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Meanwhile, Reid is on the senate floor begging Specter to let him surrender to Frist instead of his underling.....

[coder2]

Considering what a disaster Kerry has been for the dems, it will be interesting to see if any of them take him up on his idea.

[HHKrepublican_2]

Bah! Too bad Four Dems have annouced that they will vote for Alito. They'll have to get the rest rank and file.

Some of the Red State Dems wont go along with the Filibuster and I doubt Liberman will.

[PilloryHillary]

Bring it on, Kerry! According to CNN, the White House says they have 60 FIRM votes for Alito.

[MindBender26]

This is GREAT news. 290,000,000 Americans will see what idiots the DUmmies are.

[truthingod]

This is an outrage! I hope every democrat who stands in support of a filibuster loses their seat in reelection.
No nominee should ever be treated with such disgraceful behavior. Let the rats be warned, they will lose their influence if this continues. They will be like the who?---the whigs.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

..as Kerry emerges from having given Hillary a fresh Colonoscopy...

[clawrence3]

He doesn't have the votes to prevent cloture - even Senator Byrd has announced he will vote for Alito.

[shekkian]

NUKE 'EM!!!

[wouldntbprudent]

The most delicious part of this is how it roasts MRS. BILL CLINTON.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Hard headed liberal moron.There's nothing you can do so kiss abortions goodbye.

[Revolting cat!]

[dead]

Coming back for more!

[The_Victor]

Good, I hope that goes well for him.

[countorlock]

"Oh this big hose, it's just doctors orders, not plastic explosives or anything like that"

[The_Victor]

LOL!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Futile yes, but gets him in good with the moonbat base for 2008.

[COEXERJ145]

The idiots over at DUmmieland think this is salvation and Kerry is going to stop Alito.

[evets]

filly buster

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Those who claim the hard left doesn't control the Democrats owe us all an apology. They were the ones srcreaming for a filibuster. Not even the hardcore Dem Senators wanted one.

[nina0113]

Who's the fourth? I've got Nelson, Johnson, Byrd.

[Shqipo]

--"This was suppose to be MY nomination; mine I tell you all! Mine, mine mine!"
What a freakin maroon. What great farce and theater.

[Semper Paratus]

Kerry's said this today in Switzerland letting Reid's Rangers do all the heavy lifting.

LOL!

[in hoc signo vinces]

Ahhhh once an idiot, always an idiot...

idiot thy name is John F'n Kerry.

[Petronski]

Too bad Four Dems have annouced that they will vote for Alito.

Byrd, Ben Nelson, Tim Johnson and whom?

[lormand]

Who are the dems who will vote for Alito?

I have only heard of Johnson and Nelson so far.

[xzins]

filibuster or no, this puts Kerry in the race for those moveon dollars that Gore seemed to have corraled the other day with his most recent ranting.

Can you imagine a gore/kerry ticket? Could there possibly be a worse nightmare scenario than that?

[areafiftyone]

POSTED THIS A WHILE AGO KERRY TO FILIBUSTER

DUers knew way before CNN - CNN is slow today.

[ConsentofGoverned]

stupid is as stupid does. Kerry is a real rat among rats.

[West Coast Conservative]

Byrd, Johnson, Nelson.

[new yorker 77]

Let's do Kerry MATH.

55 GOP Senators. All will vote for Cloture. Not all may vote for Alito.

3 Dems will vote for Alito. Johnson, Byrd and Nelson.

2 Dems say they will vote NO on a Confirmation, YES on Cloture. Landreiu and Slazar.

THAT'S 60 VOTES.

NEXT!!!

[MNlurker]

Major overreach by Kerry here...I think he's a bit too full of himself and his hope for 08 candidacy. Talk about a nice little addition for the SotU.

[mombonn]

He's so delusional he thinks the RATS will listen to him as their presumptive leader.

[Pimpmygop]

Its not about who will vote for Alito, its about who will vote for Cloture. There are dems that will not vote for Alito, but will vote for Cloture (i.e Difi, etc).. If Cloture passes, you cant filibuster.

[dead]

Those who claim the hard left doesn't control the Democrats owe us all an apology

They didn't filibuster anybody yet. The junior senator from Massachussetts is not the party.

He's just fundraising.

[voletti]

Oh, please!
Could we pleeeeeze have a deranged filibuster attempt on the senate floor for all and sundry to see?
Am sure kerry's rating at DU and the kos club have skyrocketed...

[West Coast Conservative]

Feinstein will probably vote for cloture as well.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I don't think they have the votes -- especially if Frist holds the Republicans together. Both Landrieu and Byrd have come out against a filibuster.

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

Correct. He waited until he knew there were sufficient votes for cloture and comes out in support of a filibuster. Only positives in it for him.

[dubie]

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[mdittmar]

Lets get ready to rumbllllllle!

[Pimpmygop]

Difi said she was against a filibuster too..