The moment of truth is coming up.
I'm listening to Frist go on and on now about how horrible the Democrats are being for their partisanship and how his party is above partisanship, so we should just do what they say.
I haven't been around much this weekend so I have no idea how most Democratic senators stand on a filibuster. I got an email back from Sen. Clinton's office, but it was just a thank you form letter thingy.
God, I'm getting such a deja vu feeling from Frist and his "give them a fair up or down vote" speech. Didn't he give this exact same speech at Justice Sunday?
Cloture is a vote to cut off debate for those of you who are not C-SPAN junkies. Instead of actually filibustering anymore, they just call for a vote to end debate, or cloture. If they don't have 60 votes, then they assume a filibuster would be going on. As long as 41 votes or more vote against cloture, debate on Alito will continue until his nomination is withdrawn or until the majority can convince some of them to turn their votes and call another cloture vote. There cannot be a confirmation vote until debate ends.
Well, I've heard that HRC voted no, as did the Mighty Obama. Sen. Lieberman, on the other hand... That was really disappointing. I'd heard he was ready to filibuster on Thursday, today he's ready to end debate and let him walk. I'm not going to call him names or call him a Republican stooge or anything like that. I'm just going to say I am disappointed.
And cloture passes 72-25. You can't help but see all the Republicans smiling. Bastards.
The vote will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. Anybody want to guess how it will go?
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