Admittedly the conference meeting under Arab League auspices is not Iraq's Parliament.  It does include the elected Prime Minister, and multiple government ministers, the leadership of all factions of Parliament and even the Sunni leadership not present in Parliament.  Today AP reports their agreement to set a target for US withdrawal.
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It won't be pretty and it won't be popular. the filibuster is history - who do we blame?

As predicted and encouraged - the President wants a knock down drag out over this supreme court seat now - and he will get it.  Note the many conservatives at least predicting it as a Presidential strategy of changing nationsl focus.  Many of those conservatives will blithely go along with a radical departure when the fight inevitably takes us to the point of a filibuster.

  As Gordon Brown noted in Slate recently - this is no Saclia.  Alito looks much worse.   There is no libertarian streak in Alito.  he seems almost purely an authoritarian old Prussian school conservative, a Bismarkian conservative.  The kind of conservative that created beuracracy as a way to more efficiently run a big govenment in support of an authoritarian ruler. The kind of conservative few democrats will relish and enough will detest to filibuster.  If Alito isn't filibustered - who would the filibuster be saved for - it would rarely again be even an effective bluff.