It's Hagel

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

58-40-1.  So unless someone walks in now, it failed.

MSNBC says 59-39-1. Orrin Hatch I believe voted Present. I thought you needed 40 to filibuster

You need 60 to break a filibuster.

[Gass3268]

Reid probably feels like a idiot for not pushing for filibuster reforms.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

58-40-1.  So unless someone walks in now, it failed.

MSNBC says 59-39-1. Orrin Hatch I believe voted Present. I thought you needed 40 to filibuster

no, you need 60 votes to proceed.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How are the prospects for sloughing off one more of these yahoos by Tuesday? For that matter, who was it who didn't vote?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

58-40-1.  So unless someone walks in now, it failed.

MSNBC says 59-39-1. Orrin Hatch I believe voted Present. I thought you needed 40 to filibuster

They miscounted.

And Reid misspoke - it is NEXT Tuesday.

[morgieb]

Dear god. I hope this is ammunition for proper filibuster reform.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

How are the prospects for sloughing off one more of these yahoos by Tuesday?

Alexander has said he'd vote for cloture at least next week.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

F**kers should be impeached.

[morgieb]

How are the prospects for sloughing off one more of these yahoos by Tuesday?

Alexander has said he'd vote for cloture at least next week.

So did Graham, and Reid voted no for procedural reasons.

[Lief 🗽]

Hatch voted present? Profiles in courage here gentlemen...

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

58-40-1.  So unless someone walks in now, it failed.

MSNBC says 59-39-1. Orrin Hatch I believe voted Present. I thought you needed 40 to filibuster

They miscounted.

And Reid misspoke - it is NEXT Tuesday.

They meaning the Senate Clerk.  He corrected himself to 58.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Right - Reid would've been why it was changed from 59-58.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How are the prospects for sloughing off one more of these yahoos by Tuesday?

Alexander has said he'd vote for cloture at least next week.

So did Graham, and Reid voted no for procedural reasons.

So we are effectively in a position where holding on through the holiday should be enough to get Hagel confirmed.

I of course assume this will actually proceed and today's idiocy (the number of votes with which, I should point out, John effing Ashcroft was confirmed US Attorney General--I know the context of a cloture vote isn't the same but still...) doesn't mean the nomination has been stillborn, right?--right?

[memphis]

Lol@GOP filibustering a nominee of their own party. They will stop at nothing to filibuster everything.

[Keystone Phil]

A great day for the Republic. I'm so happy the serious Senator from Pennsylvania announced his opposition to this joke.

Fun fact: I organized the counter rally in Philly when Hagel endorsed Sestak.

[Ichabod]

Yeah sure, all this childish show has been very serious.

[Keystone Phil]

Yeah, John Kerry (of all people!) gets little Republican opposition but the concerns over Hagel aren't serious and are just hackery. Yep. Solid point.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

So the Republicans are arguing that this wasn't a filibuster, yet even FOX News calls it that: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/14/republicans-filibuster-hagel-confirmation-as-benghazi-battle-intensifies/

[Benj]

Hatch voted Present; who didn't vote? If it was 59-39-1, someone didn't vote. (I know it was actually 58-40, but that's because Reid voted No so he can reintroduce.)

[Maxwell]

God damn it.

[memphis]

Yeah, John Kerry (of all people!) gets little Republican opposition but the concerns over Hagel aren't serious and are just hackery. Yep. Solid point.

John Kerry was hand picked by the GOP for his fail stench. It was absurd that Obama went along with their game and it's absurd that you are making the comparison.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Yeah, John Kerry (of all people!) gets little Republican opposition but the concerns over Hagel aren't serious and are just hackery. Yep. Solid point.

John Kerry was hand picked by the GOP for his fail stench. It was absurd that Obama went along with their game and it's absurd that you are making the comparison.

You're both being ridiculous. John Kerry is an excellent pick by any non-hackish measure, and there's no evidence he wouldn't have been Obama's choice even without Benghazi. Hagel is being opposed because he's been the subject of a years'-long character defamation by the uberhawks in his party.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

What I want to know is what in God's name Benghazi has to do with Hagel or anything related to him. It's so transparently just the new excuse for whatever the Republicans don't feel like doing, at least in the bailiwick of foreign/defense policy. I can't recall a similar excuse that became so unbelievably irritating and craven so quickly at any time in recent history, though of course such things are inevitably subjective.

[Maxwell]

Yeah, John Kerry (of all people!) gets little Republican opposition but the concerns over Hagel aren't serious and are just hackery. Yep. Solid point.

John Kerry was hand picked by the GOP for his fail stench. It was absurd that Obama went along with their game and it's absurd that you are making the comparison.

You're both being ridiculous. John Kerry is an excellent pick by any non-hackish measure, and there's no evidence he wouldn't have been Obama's choice even without Benghazi. Hagel is being opposed because he's been the subject of a years'-long character defamation by the uberhawks in his party.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Idi-f%*#ing-otic... well done GOP, this is what you are now.