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- Michelle Malkin
- Wheeling & dealing: Snowe pow-wows with Obama; Landrieu, Schumer, Daschle behind the scenes
- Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
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- Jake Tapper
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Democrats scrap deal on Alito vote
Senate Democrats have scrapped a “good-faith” agreement they made two months ago to allow the Judiciary Committee to vote today on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.
“This is a new low in our confirmation process,” said Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican. “Not only because it is virtually unprecedented, but also because it reflects a breach of trust.”
According to Judiciary Committee rules, either party can stall a nomination in committee for only one week, meaning that Judge Alito’s nomination will likely be approved by the panel during an executive committee meeting next Tuesday.
The entire Senate will take up the nomination no later than Jan. 25 and will remain on it until Judge Alito’s nomination is voted up or down, said Eric Ueland, chief of staff for Majority Leader Bill Frist.
“Justice delayed will not be a justice denied, as Sam Alito will receive a fair up-or-down vote and join the Supreme Court before month’s end,” he said. “Any remaining threats to filibuster are just filibluster.”
Although Democratic leaders have not ruled out an attempt to filibuster the nomination, such a maneuver seems increasingly unlikely.
Still, conservatives were furious that Senate Democrats “reneged” on their agreement to vote Judge Alito out of committee in time for a full Senate vote on Friday.
“You know it’s an election year in Washington when people try things like this,” said Joseph Cella, president of Fidelis, a conservative Catholic-based organization. “The Democrats are going through these gyrations of block and delay for the liberal interest groups who butter their bread.”
Under the terms of the November arrangement presented to reporters by Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter and ranking Democrat Patrick J. Leahy, Republicans agreed to conduct the confirmation hearings after the holidays and Democrats agreed to allow a committee vote on the nomination today.
The only conditions for violating the agreement mentioned at the time by Mr. Leahy was “if something extraordinary comes up that neither Senator Specter nor I anticipate or expect.”
Yesterday, Mr. Leahy was not claiming that anything extraordinary had come up. The only explanation he has offered is that Democrats didn’t want to cut short their Martin Luther King Day holiday.
Yeah, like Senator Hillary “Plantation” Clinton.
Hat tip: Betsy Newmark
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- The Alito confirmation hearings: Day two
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It is about damn time Frist started kicking Donkey tucas. He should use every Senate rule in the book to punish the Democrats starting with reducing the size of their staffs and cutting the numbers of the the dumb donkeys on the committees.
“a breach of trust” BWWAAAAA!!!!
No one believe a single word spoken from Democratic lips, but Cornyn seems amazed at a Democrat backpeddal. WOW!
Panthers 27 Seachickens 20
Dog in the manger democrats.
Dax,
In politics, your word is your bond. The Democrats have broken a most sacred tenet, breaking an agreed to arrangement. Now the GOP can never trust them to keep a deal.
The ends justify the means?
Supreme Court, today, voted 6-3 to support an Oregon Law. The 3 against—-all Catholics. And Alito makes 5. A packed Court can’t be good. Peace
Steve are you actually saying you want people to die under this law??
Can someone explain how 3+1 = 5?
Probably, the same logic that believes that taking from producers and giving to consumers makes life better for all.
This delay will not stop Judge Alito’s confirmation. Since they could not muster support for a filibuster of such a highly qualified nominee, this is the only option they were left with.
I want the Depends consession for the Democrat Caucus. I could be Kennedy rich in no time, and I won’t have Teddy trying to drink the profits.
Pam, didn’t you ever study Democrat Math?
You’re right Ryan – this will not stop Judge Alito’s confirmation. I think this will only serve to discredit the Democrats on the nominating committee even further. The American people are ready for an answer – these Senators have had months to prepare themselves for the hearings and do any “digging” on Judge Alito. What more do they possibly want at this point? I’m sure they’re hoping for a miracle, but they can’t avoid the fact the Alito is extremely qualified and should be confirmed. Now, its time for these Senators to do something and stop delaying this important process. I think I’m reflecting everyone’s sentiments when I say – “let’s get on with it.”