Two GOP Senators: No Filibuster on Alito

[Nightwing]

WASHINGTON - A group of centrist senators who halted a previous filibuster fight is making plans for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, but at least two of the group's Republicans say their decision is already made: no filibuster.

"I don't believe that, with all sincerity, I could let that happen," Sen. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record), R-S.C., a member of the so-called Gang of 14, said after meeting with the federal appeals court judge whom President Bush nominated to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Graham and Sen. Mike DeWine (news, bio, voting record), R-Ohio, were taking their anti-filibuster message to the other Senate centrists at a meeting Thursday. But the group's Democrats were urging them to withhold judgment, saying Alito has been the nominee only since Monday.

The defection of even two members of the group, which decided earlier in the year to support filibusters only in "extraordinary circumstances," would virtually ensure that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., would win a filibuster showdown.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/ap_on_go_su_co/alito

[bluestateguy]

1. I want the Senate to be shut down

Force the Senate to use the nuclear option, and then the Senate will be tied in knots, paralyzed, unable to do anything.

If the Congress was dissolved permanently, as Emperor Palpatine did, I would be a happy man.

[Tesla]

2. I KNEW DeWhine had to be the "Bend-over" man!!!

He is such a WHIMP!!!!!

Go ANYONE who can take him out next year!!!!

Go, Hackett!!!

Everyone, move to Ohio and help us!!!!!

[Nightwing]

4. Hackett has a great shot to unseat him

DeSwine deserves to lose his seat especially if he pulls this crap to get Scalito on the USSC.

I know my wife and I are completely behind Hackett as are many of our friends.

[Tesla]

5. I'll help out anyway I can to get"Little man" outa there!!!!

He's one of those guys at school that told on you all the time so he could get SOME attention.

I bet he had a runny nose also....hahaha

[Kolesar]

7. Did you know there is a DU meetup between Cle and Akron Sunday?

Look in the Ohio forum for the recent post.

[lonestarnot]

10. Yes Hackett! Will be watching this race closely!

[Kolesar]

3. Gee, it would be nice to question Alito on the Commerce Clause first

...before deciding. Or maybe that's the whole point. Gops get their arbitrary decisions enhancing corporate power and hide behind a fetus.

[Roarin]

6. The Senators had better think about the Women voters they are tossing.

Replacing O'Connor with a male is an outrage!

[confludemocrat]

8. Graham (R-SC) is a mole in the group to blow it up; Dewine simply gutless

and to call any Repubs anywhere "moderate" is a fucking outrage.

[yellowcanine]

9. Lindsey Graham is someone who would benefit from a good poke in the

nose. And I say that as a pacifist.