Liberal bloggers pushing hard for filibuster

The campaign to garner enough support to sustain a filibuster against Alito is gaining strength. On Tuesday, all Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee voted against Alito. On Thursday, John Kerry announced he would filibuster. As of Saturday, 13 Senators have committed to support the filibuster. Now Senators are getting swamped with calls and mail, and, according to Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, Democrats are united:

“This is probably the most united I’ve ever seen the Democratic establishment, that is, Democrats without offices in the U.S. Senate. Even the DLC is calling for a filibuster. Center, left, right — all corners of the party agree,” Kos blogged on Saturday.

Just a few days ago, the idea of a Democrat filibuster against President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito seemed unrealistic or ‘quixotic’ at best, but liberal bloggers have been working all weekend to try and make the impossible happen, RAW STORY has learned.

On Thursday night, Senator John Kerry (D-MA), after delivering a Senate floor speech against the nomination, posted his third diary at the popular Daily Kos Website (Filibuster Alito) which urged the community to help “stop Judge Alito from becoming Justice Alito.” At that time, only the 2004 Presidential nominee and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) were behind such a move, as numerous reports showed that Alito would have enough votes to be confirmed.

On Friday afternoon, Senator Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) press secretary revealed to Raw Story by email that she was also on board. By late Saturday night, 13 Democrats, in total, agreed to join in.

Bob Fertik of Democrats.com was one of the key online activists who has worked tirelessly to get liberals to dig in their heels and push for action. Fertik sent email messages to many popular bloggers, thanking the ones who were already involved, and cajoling those that were uncommitted or had even blogged against getting…

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