Reply #36: Tsk, tsk, saracat... Hillary did join the filibuster against Alito w/Kerry....

[Tellurian]

Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006 10:05 a.m. EST

Hillary Clinton Backs Alito Filibuster

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told a Buffalo radio station Friday morning that she hadn't decided whether to support a move to filibuster the confirmation vote next week for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.

But by the end of the day, Mrs. Clinton had made up her mind to join the doomed effort to block the conservative judge, which was launched Thursday by Sen. John Kerry.

In a statement posted to her web site late Friday, Mrs. Clinton announced: "Because I do not think Judge Alito would advance the principles Americans hold most dear, I oppose his nomination and support efforts to block his confirmation.”

Mrs. Clinton claimed: "History will show that Judge Alito’s nomination is the tipping point against constitutionally-based freedoms and protections we cherish as individuals and as a nation. He would roll back decades of progress, and roll over when confronted with an administration too willing to play fast and loose with the rules."

...Kerry made himself the laughingstock of the Senate, when asked by Luger: "If he (Kerry) knew how to count? Because the votes weren't there to begin a filibuster!"

And what has this got to do with EE anyway?