Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Supreme Court, All Right or All Wrong? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1342)	1/27/2006 2:34:27 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3029

Though I have managed to overrate them far too many times, it's still hard to believe that the Dems will try a filibuster, and don't realize: The votes for cloture are solid. There are probably two dozen of them who just want to get this disaster behind them. (ESPECIALLY before the nation's attention is turned to government for a few hours on SOTU night.) There are no known conservatives who aren't DROOLING at the prospect of watching them prolong their defeat with a filibuster. So, at the risk of overrating their intelligence and instinct again, I predict that, at worst, Alito will be hastily confirmed before the cameras are turned on for SOTU. (Ironically, Bush will then briefly THANK the Senate for "it's prompt and just action" on the nomination.)...

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1342)	1/27/2006 11:15:38 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3029

If this nomination was so all important to Kerry, why didn't he stay in this country to vote on it, instead of hobnobing with the rich and famous and sending e mails home to the "Little people"? "Senator John Kerry has called for a filibuster of the Alito nomination, heeding your calls to do everything possible to defeat it," People for the American Way cheered in an e-mail message to its supporters. Didn't even one person ask why he didn't deliver his message in person? "People can say all they want that 'elections have consequences,' " he wrote. "Trust me, more than anyone I understand that. But that seems like an awfully convoluted rationale for me to stay silent about Judge Alito's nomination."