I Read Where The Dems Will Delay The Alito Vote For A Week...

[global1]

and there would be no filibuster. What is the benefit of delaying the vote? I don't understand. Delay the vote then give him a pass into the SC. What's the purpose of the delay? What am I missing?

[BlueCaliDem]

1. What's the Benefit?

I guess it allows Democratic Senators to look tough in the eyes of their constituents, while still giving Bush's reich-wing judges a pass so they won't have to work hard at filibustering and trying to stop a "nukular" option to "save the Senate's" traditions.

I guess preserving senate traditions is more important than saving the rights of your average American .:sarcasm:

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Delay one weeks increases chance of fillibuster. There is a reason

the WH weanted him confirmed before Christmas. Senate Dems are waiting for uppidy people at DU to start throwing screaming hissy fits at the thought of Scalito on the SCOTUS before they act.

[babylonsister]

3. Uppity DUers have been working their mojjo! nt

[farmboxer]

4. I am once again very let down. What are our Democratic leaders

afraid of? Have they been threatened? Is Bush already a full fledged dictator? It appears to be insane to allow someone like Alito on the Supreme Court. Is it all over? No more free elections? Even higher medicine? Etc.? Ad infinitum, so saith the Pope?

Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rev. Moon, Rev. Dobson, and their ilk are celebrating!!!!!!!!! Hitler from the ashes?!

[ladjf]

7. Yes, it's insane to install Alito onto the Supreme. But, unfortunately,

the inmates are running the asylum.

[EFerrari]

5. Civilians hear everything last. So, delaying the vote gives

the public a chance to know what a bigot Alito is.

Time is on the side of the people, even if it is a little frustrating to us.

[AX10]

9. I tend to agree.

[OneBlueSky]

6. a nice symbolic gesture . . . just what we need . . . n/t

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[Lexingtonian]

8. it allows the bogus PR spin cycle to break down

and do some damage to Republicans among their moderates. Voters if not Senators.

The present corporate TV story line is the straight cultism-based "those Mean Evil Democratic Senators asked Our Hero Average American all kinds of treacherous and meanspirited questions and alleged he was a bigot and made his wife cry. Let's ignore what those questions were, because even if he lied he did it for The Lord, he is One Of Us. But he Stood Up To Them valiently."

The reality-based version is "a mediocre right wing judge mentally living in 19th century Italy was asked questions about 14th Amendment individual and group civil rights guarantees, Presidential powers, favoritism to corporations, and his own slimy Republican kick-down asskiss-up careerism. He waffled, lied by omission, evaded, stonewalled, filibustered, and was proud of holding fascist, unConstitutional, and unAmerican views and was contemptuous of the weak, poor, and disadvantaged."