Which Democrats will vote "yes on Roberts?

[ClintonTyree]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9401768/

WASHINGTON - Chief justice nominee John Roberts seems to be headed for the Supreme Court with the vote on his confirmation set for next week on the Senate floor, but the question of the moment in Washington is which Democrats will vote “yes.”

A couple of centrist Democrats, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, have already signaled they'll probably vote for Roberts. Even apart from Roberts's impeccable credentials and self-assured testimony, "aye" votes would make sense, given the political coloration of Nebraska and Arkansas.

But the most intense focus is on potential Democratic presidential contenders Sens. Joe Biden, Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, and Russ Feingold.

Would the risks they’d run in voting for Roberts outweigh any gain from voting "yes"?

Sarah Binder, a political analyst at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, said Democratic senators “are thinking twice about what position they want to take here, lest they be accused of obstructionism… by voting against Roberts.”

Obstructionism? :wtf: How can you vote on someone you know nothing about? What's to obstruct? You're damned right they'd better weigh this carefully, becuase if they DO vote "yes" they run the risk of turing their base against them. :puke:

[elehhhhna]

1. Every friggin one that wants to be out of a job, asap, imho.

[leftupnorth]

2. I predict

All the DLC dems will vote yes. Roberts is the corporate whores kinda guy.

[LittleClarkie]

3. So if Kerry votes nay can we agree that he's not really DLC

Pretty please? With sugar on it?

[leftupnorth]

4. that's just my prediction

I kerry a corporate whore?
I guess i don't know that much about him. i do know he takes money from large corporations, not as much as Bush did in '04 but still a sizeable amount.

[LittleClarkie]

7. The question really is

how much are his votes influenced by that money? Can people draw parallels between money he's gotten and votes he should not have made, like folks can for Biden, for instance?

[Blue Belle]

5. Lieberman will vote for him...

Dodd probably will too.

[NYC Liberal]

6. Let's face it..the vote will be like 95-3 or something like that.

I do not have very much confidence in these "Dems" right now.

[nonconformist]

9. I agree. nt

[Snotcicles]

8. Roberts would be an obstruction to justice. So Dem's should say

they voted to keep our courts unobstructed.

[CBGLuthier]

10. All of them

Cause the truth is, they don't give a fuck about us and they don't give a fuck about winning anything. All they want is to keep playing power games.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. They're "saving" opposition for somebody "real bad".

Adolph Eichmann being dead, that means they'll cave for anyone Boobya sends to them.

Gotta protect that unusable filibuster.

[Binka]

13. Hitler, Caligula, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Pinochet, Nixon.....NEXT

Same shit different assholes. Gotta protect their political wallet. Fuckwittages!

[0rganism]

12. almost all of them, would be my guess

But WTF is with this media POS? Is it an editorial or a news article? It comes off as a news piece, but then I read crap like

"Even apart from Roberts's impeccable credentials and self-assured testimony, 'aye' votes would make sense, given the political coloration of Nebraska and Arkansas."

Hmm. Must be "analysis".

[Lori Price CLG]

14. LieberBush, for sure.. n/t