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Top Republicans Jon Kyl and John Cornyn called a filibuster of Elena Kagan highly unlikely on Wednesday, but some GOP senators are still holding out hope: “I wouldn't rule out a filibuster,” Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said on Wednesday. Republicans aren’t the only ones who are frustrated: Democrat Arlen Specter let loose on Kagan for her evasiveness during Wednesday’s hearings. “You have followed the pattern which has been in vogue since Bork,” he told her. “It would be my hope that we could find some place between voting no and having some sort of substantive answers, but I don’t know that it would be useful to continue these questions any further.”