[msnimje]

John Kerry proudly displays one of his medals

[Echo Talon]

"We can't afford to see the court's swing vote, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, replaced with a far-right ideologue like Samuel Alito."

then maybe you shouldnt have been such a dufus last year, you moron.

[airborne]

Is Kerry ever going to get tired of losing?

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Frist should have cut off debate today, scheduled a cloture vote for tonight, and a vote for confirmation tomorrow at 10:00 AM. But, no, the weak sister gives the traitor/treason Democrats until next week. What a whimp!!!

[msnimje]

[tet68]

Ideological coup?

I like it, that's the warrior's way.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

"Early Next Week" ? What happened to a vote on Friday ?

[syriacus]

A filibuster would merely prove what we've known all along -- John Kerry is an uncourteous ideologue who makes up his mind without even bothering to listen to his colleagues.

Memo to SNOB Kerry
What makes you think you're so great?
You didn't attend the debate.
Yet you'll boss around others
(Senate sisters and brothers)
You tell them their vote has to wait.

[reformeddemddm]

Maybe someone should tell JFKerry losers don't get to pick Supreme Court Justices

[MinuteGal]

Tuesday is the State of the Union Address. The 'Rats want to delay so that the President won't be able to deliver a one-liner on the successful Alito appointment to wild applause from the Republican side.

You can bet the Pubs will cheer loud and long just to rub it into their dejected, defeated collegues across the aisle (or I should say, across the Great Divide).

Leni

[freespirited]

I think Joe Lieberman will give us the fifth Dem vote we need to put an end to this nonsense and get on with it.

[HamiltonJay]

You want to appoint Supreme Court Justices... WIN ELECTIONS... until then trying to keep a man who is one of the most qualified candidates ever offered to the bench, who has twice been unanamously approved by congress for federal bench just makes you look even more rediculous than you already do.. and ensures you will continue to LOSE elections.

Democrats... want you to play by the rules.. but they don't want to.

[HamiltonJay]

In a speech on the Senate floor, Byrd, the longest-serving Democrat in the Senate, said he refused "simply to toe the party line when it comes to Supreme Court justices."

"My considered judgment ... leads me to believe [Alito] to be an honorable man, a man who loves his country, loves his Constitution and a man who will give of his best," said Byrd, who faces re-election in November. "Can we really ask for more?"

This is HUGE!!! Democrats if Robert Byrd doesn't even feel safe enough to tow your incredulous line.. then NO democrat in anything but the bluest of states facing re-election is safe to vote down Alito without serious reprisals at the ballot box. Byrd is about as safe a Senator as you can find.. even though WV is turning red, Byrd will leave the Senate when he's good and ready.. he won't be voted out... and if this guy sees the writing on the wall... the rest of the Dems will know its safe to do what they know is right.

[Preachin']

"I had hoped Frist would keep the floor open for debate all weekend."

It would've been neat to have 24-hours per day, with the GOP having the floor from 9a-9p, and the democrats from 9p-9a.