{"id":6323,"date":"2006-01-12T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2006-01-12T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T18:52:08","slug":"lieberman-and-the-possibility-of-a-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/lieberman-and-the-possibility-of-a-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman and the possibility of a filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myleftnutmeg.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=212\">rumor of the day<\/a>, but I&#8217;m a little skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>To summarize the buzz, Joe Lieberman met with some activists from Democracy for America yesterday, and when the subject of the Alito nomination came up, Lieberman &#8220;said that a filibuster was on the table for him.&#8221; (The quote reflects the DFA rep&#8217;s description of the meeting, not an exact quote of the senator.)<\/p>\n<p>Of all the people to raise the specter of a filibuster, Lieberman seems like an odd choice. Indeed, Lieberman was one of the 22 Dems to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&#038;session=1&#038;vote=00245\">vote for John Roberts&#8217; nomination<\/a> in September. I can see Lieberman feeling enough heat in an election year to vote against Alito on the floor, but a filibuster? <em>Lieberman<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, earlier this week, Lieberman spoke to a student group from Yale, all of whom opposed the Alito nomination, and told them that a filibuster is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtnh.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4340403&#038;nav=3YeX\">still a possibility<\/a>,&#8221; though he had &#8220;no idea&#8221; whether it would happen.<\/p>\n<p>These reports give the impression that Lieberman thinks Alito might face a filibuster, but not necessarily that he&#8217;d be the one leading the fight. I can think of a few million people who&#8217;d be impressed to see him get out in front in taking Alito on, but until that happens, I wouldn&#8217;t count on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the rumor of the day, but I&#8217;m a little skeptical. To summarize the buzz, Joe Lieberman met with some activists from Democracy for America yesterday, and when the subject of the Alito nomination came up, Lieberman &#8220;said that a filibuster was on the table for him.&#8221; (The quote reflects the DFA rep&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}