I believe that Senate will reject Alito.

[Hawkeye-X]

For tons of reason, but most important - the majority of the Senate up for reelection in '06 is Republican.. And they want to save their own asses.

Chimp needs to keep throwing far-right morons, and continue to shoot himself in the foot and also aiming at the elephant behind it.

Let the polls AFTER polls show that the nomination is SO unpopular it'll be another Bork.

Don't forget, call your newsstations, write those letters to the editors, and to your senators saying that this choice is so bad that you will not be happy, etc.

It's a call to war against Chimp and kick him when he's down (and his poll sink EVEN further)

I'm hoping Fitz will give us a bonus Fitzmas gift and indict Rove this week, further weakening Chimp.

Hawkeye-X

[ananda]

1. I like it.

Bush is weak. Dems can get strong and filibuster the squeak out of the squeaky Alito.

Go for it Dems!

Sue

[expatriot]

2. I tend to agree, if there was ever a time for us to win a fight like this

it is now... we take this fight to the american people, they are hungry for alternatives to bush now. if we do it right, I think we can really open up the start of the 2006 midterm elections right now with this. Let's start talking to the people about how the judiciary is more than just Roe v. Wade, how it is abotu corporatist anti-worker laws and big brother anti-citizen laws, etc.

[mestup]

Great resource for vulnerable senate races

http://www.removerepublicans.com

[papau]

3. 52 GOP PLUS NELSON will vote to confirm, the 3 GOP that might

vote against are unlikely to vote for a filibuster. IMHO

We will see if we have a Democratic Party worth belonging to.

:toast:

:-)

[Chan790]

5. Which 3?

I can think of several that have good reasons to not vote for this, probably not all of whom will defect. I'm just curious because the difference is the people we need to target.

[papau]

7. An ABC fellow said 52 and I did not ask which 3 - I should have as

I agree with you that we need to target those 3 - but the conversation thought was that zero are with us on a filibuster.

Presumable, the no to Alito votes exist only if Alito is passing the Senate so a few negative GOP votes will not matter.

But I grant you the feeling I got was that the 52 was a GOP provided number - sadly his (GOP provided?) numbers have been pretty good in the past.

I look forward to our Dem's doing some oppo- research - but I expect it will, if done at all - be a subset of the research done at DU.

And I never hear the whip counts early on from the Dems.

[deadparrot]

9. Collins, Snowe, Chafee?

Possibly Specter and/or Murkowski.

AFAIK, those are the only pro-choice Republicans in the Senate.

[VolcanoJen]

4. James Carville had the right idea today on CNN.

Carville said, "Look, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are thrilled. James Dobson is ecstatic. Bay and Pat Buchanan are doing cartwheels. These are the only people the President is interested in pleasing, and they represent the minority and the extreme."

[WI_DEM]

6. Nope, I think he will probably be confirmed

He is coservative but he has impeccable judiciary credentials. He will have more opposition than Roberts, but he'll get in.

[papau]

8. unless there is a 41 vote filibuster, I agree.

:-(