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November 02, 2005
The Breaking of the Fellowship: Graham, DeWine Announce They'll Go Nuclear If Alito Is Filibustered
And we only need two of the seven to force a 50-50 tie, Cheney casts the tie-breaking vote.
That seems to have quieted noise about filibustering him:
After a brief flurry of filibuster talk immediately following Alito's nomination, Senate Democrats now are taking a wait-and-see stance.
"I don't know a single Democrat who is saying that it's time for a filibuster, that we should really consider it," said Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, after meeting with Alito Wednesday. "It's way too early."
Nelson said he had received assurances from Alito "that he wants to go to the bench without a political agenda, that he is not bringing a hammer and chisel to hammer away and chisel away on existing law."
As annoyed as we all get with the RINOs, they do occasionally vote our way.