[woodyinscc]

Force dims to keep voting against Estrada. Game of chicken!

Story last week not accurate!

A losing 55 votes for cloture does not stop the nom.,
keeps the filibuster going

[GOPrincess]

I'm really glad Rush clarified this. Last week he seemed to think a cloture vote was the end of it if the Republicans lost. (I was getting quite confused between the rules re filibusters, the confusion re the Fox story, etc.) He clarified today what I'd originally been thinking -- *if* the Republicans lose the cloture vote, that means the "real" filibuster starts, do I have that right? And it's only going to end after that if the Democrats cave on their filibuster, is that right? To me it seems like a "can't lose" prospect if the Republicans are set to hang in there and force the Democrats to repeatedly put their names on their votes.