Saturday, January 21, 2006

Filibustering Alito?

The abject failure of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to demonize Samuel Alito and to turn public opinion against him has once again raised the question of a possible filibuster. The "Gang of Fourteen" agreement struck in 2005 by seven "moderate" senators from each party does not allow for the filibustering of a candidate who is as firmly within the American mainstream as Judge Alito; however, as Robert Novak writes, the far-left organizations on which the modern Democrat party depends for funding and support may force them into a "filibuster that they do not want to wage."

http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/robertnovak/2006/01/21/183314.html

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