UPDATE: The Political Teen has video up of a CNN correspondent explaining the situation. Luckily it looks more and more like Kerry is just making of a fool of himself. If he is seriously thinking about running for President again in 2008, he should have sent some nobody out to call for a filibuster so he wouldn't look like such an idiot when it backfires. Or maybe Kerry doesn't want a filibuster at all. Maybe he just wants to be able to come out later and say he was for the filibuster before he was against it.

Hat tip Drudge for being first on this, as usual...

Read all about Kerry's call to filibuster the Alito nomination here, via CNN.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN's Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.

Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.

He announced his decision Wednesday to a group of Democratic senators, urging they join him, Henry said. Kerry also has the support of his fellow Massachusetts senator, Democrat Edward Kennedy.

Some senior Democrats said they are worried that the move could backfire.

Republicans need 60 votes to overturn a filibuster.

Senior White House officials said the move makes the Democrats look bad, and Republicans already have enough votes to overcome any filibuster attempt.

I suspect The Political Teen will have more to come, but just has a CNN screen shot up at the moment.

Interestingly, this development comes as more Dems back Alito. I'm obviously no fan of Byrd and don't know much about Johnson.. but it's just kind of funny that I read that story along side Kerry's call for a filibuster.

What a mess... anyway, I think this only stands to backfire on the Dems.

UPDATE: Check out the lefty blogs on this... they're all singing Kerry's praises for "growing a pair" and taking a stand, etc.... pathetic.

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