[MinuteGal]

He may know the vote is already in the tank against Obama. Why knock him without knowing his other reasons which he may not want to mention right now? He's about one of five or ten in the hundreds of house members who shows any guts whenever the rubber meets the road.

Leni

[abb]

I don’t think they have the votes in the Senate for final passage. Several Democrats could lose their jobs over this.

[cripplecreek]

I hadn’t heard him say he would filibuster. I’ve heard lots of questions about whether he would followed by the inevitable claim that he had backed down.

Plenty of stupid people on the right buy into this crap.

[citizen]

I say you are right. If the Dims can’t even get 50 + 1 favoring bombing, filibustering would be a mistake. The purpose of filibustering is to delay the proceedings, continue debating and force 60 votes in the Senate in favor of invoking cloture, which ends debate on the issue and voting can proceed.

So....filibustering unnecessarily will only give the Dims and the press the leverage to blame Republicans for being obstructionists, etc.