Posted on 01/30/2006 2:36:06 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON — Enough Senate Democrats had signed on by mid-vote Monday to prevent a filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito, virtually assuring the nomination would go to a full floor vote Tuesday ending with his confirmation.
When the vote is done, the Democrats will have joined with all 54 Republicans present to pass the 60-vote threshold to end debate, leading to a final floor vote Tuesday morning. Alito could be sworn in as early as noon Tuesday.
Earlier in the afternoon, members of the so-called Gang of 14 said they unanimously supported ending debate on Alito, The evenly politically split "Gang of 14" moderate senators met Monday afternoon to discuss how they would respond to liberal Democrats' efforts to filibuster Alito's nomination. All agreed they would move to quash a filibuster.
Prior to the vote, Sen. Arlen Specter, a pro-choice Republican and head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, hailed Alito as an "A-plus" candidate for the nation's highest court who was "well qualified" to be confirmed by the Senate.
The Gang of 14 was formed by senators seeking middle ground on judiciary nominees. A ground rule for allowing filibusters is if there are "extraordinary circumstances" surrounding the nominee. While the gang has never explicitly defined what an extraordinary circumstance would be, members privately said there were none regarding Alito, who has sat on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals for 15 years
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Kerry felt like he had to squash any attempt at voting, in order to preserve democracy.
Yeah, that Gang of 14 agreement last year really was a bad move.
bout time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm beginning to think we need senate hearings each and every week from now until November, so that these left wing-dingbat senators can get plenty of airtime to expose their wacked out philosophies. Unfortunately, some are in states that the general public are also wacked out, but we can hope for those few who aren't and need to be voted out!
how very bolshevik of him.
Republicans
John S. McCain III, Arizona
Lindsey O. Graham, South Carolina
John Warner, Virginia
Olympia Snowe, Maine
Susan M. Collins, Maine
R. Michael DeWine, Ohio
Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island
Democrats
Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut
Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia
E. Benjamin Nelson, Nebraska
Mary Landrieu, Louisiana
Daniel Inouye, Hawaii
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Ken Salazar, Colorado
Kerry led the charge, and could only get half of his troops to follow him.
Just too su-weet
Someone please post the rantings from DU!
KOS has some entertaining replies. What a freakin' Bizzaro world they live in over there!
It will have to be a registered user. They are locked down over there.
One KOS nut called their Senator's office three times today. I can only imagine that the got shriller with each call. That gets you on the Nut Job list.
If you listen carefully, you can hear it all the way over here...the wailing, the gnashing of teeth, the rending of clothes. It's just simply....DELICIOUS.
So - will Alito be seated for the State of the Union address? That would be cool, because you know the President would mention him.
Certainly shaping up that way!
I don't know which are funnier...their posts, or their taglines...
WE NEED A REGISTERED DUMMIE "MOLE" TO BRING US A SWEET, SWEET TASTE OF THE UNIMAGINABLE SUFFERING THEY'RE ALL GOING THROUGH, RIGHT NOW!!! :)
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