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WE CAN STOP ALITO THIS WEEKEND
http://www.democrats.com/we-can-stop-alito
The last two days have been amazing.
Early Thursday afternoon, we broke the news that Senator John Kerry would lead a filibuster against Judge Sam Alito if he could get 41 Senators to sustain the filibuster. Three hours later, CNN confirmed our story.
Naturally, the White House freaked out and told Senator Bill Frist to schedule a cloture vote as quickly as possible - Monday at 4:30 p.m. - to prevent Democrats from uniting behind Kerry.
Then the White House called its media whores at the NY Times (David Kirkpatrick), AP (Jesse Holland), Pentagon Post (Charles Babington), CNN (Miles O'Brien), and MSNBC (Chris Matthews) and told them to trash John Kerry for daring to challenge the will of Emperor Bush, and to repeat over and over that Democrats did not have enough votes to stop Alito.
But even as Karl Rove was doing his dirty work, progressive activists like you were calling your Senators urging them to support John Kerry's filibuster.
And one by one, Democratic Senators began to turn around.
http://democrats.com/alito-48
At the start of the day, only Dick Durbin and Debbie Stabenow supported Kerry and Kennedy. Just before noon, Hillary Clinton's office called to say she supported us. Then Harry Reid came on board, along with Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold, Ron Wyden, Chris Dodd, and (I think) Chuck Schumer.
Most importantly, we even picked up Dianne Feinstein, who just yesterday said she opposed a filibuster.
That's 12 votes for a filibuster - and exactly 12 more votes than we had two days ago!
I believe we really can stop Alito by Monday at 4:30 p.m. - but here's what we must do.
1. Ignore the media whores. Karl Rove is feeding them lies as he always does, and they are swallowing those lies as they always do. The only media that matters is the media we are creating right here by calling each Senator and getting a YES or NO statement from them.
2. Wake up the sleeping bloggers. Where are the biggest blogs, including DailyKos.com, TalkingPointsMemo.com, CrooksandLiars.com, and AmericaBlog.com? (Complaining about how Democrats played last week won't cut it -we're in the Super Bowl and we can win this damn game if we get Democrats to play their best game on Monday - and hopefully the rest of this coming week.) Thanks to Agonist, BobGeiger, The Democratic Daily, DemocraticUnderground, Eschaton, Firedoglake, MakeThemAccountable, Mark Crispin Miller, PoliticalWire, Vichy Democrats and everyone else who's plugging this.
3. Keep calling the Senators who are undecided or opposed to a filibuster. You can call their DC office all weekend and leave polite but firm voicemails urging the Senators to support Kerry's filibuster. When offices open on Monday 9 a.m. ET, make another round of calls. Let's shut down the Capitol switchboard on Monday!
http://democrats.com/alito-48
4. Call the DNC (202-863-8000) and the DSCC (202-224-2447) and tell them your 2006 contributions will depend on the success of the Alito filibuster. Tell them they need to get every Democratic Senator on board.
5. Call talk shows like Air America, C-SPAN, etc. and talk about what we're doing on this blog and how we're killing ourselves to stop Alito - and how we can win if everyone who cares about the future of our Democracy joins us.
6. Keep hope alive - because American Democracy is worth it!!!
All it takes is a phone call. The fundies held a rally to push this guy, a phone call is all it takes.
One other added bonus of a filibuster: it'd deliver one hell of a kick in the teeth to this Administration's Bullshit Campaign during the State of the Union. Hell, if it was a real, "talking" filibuster, they might just have to reschedule the Preznit's Mendacious Goodtime Iraqi Happy Hour to some other day.
And when the Republicans bitch -- as they surely would -- we remind the country that the President is, after all, an invited guest of the Congress and not our fucking American Pope making pronouncements from a balcony at St. Peter. He works for us, and right now the Alito matter is far too important to put on hold while the President gets another free hour of scripted, all-channels-live photo-op national airtime to lie to us some more.
Win or lose, we fight for every inch.
So what are you still doing here? Go and do, and good luck to us all.
Post a Comment 55 Comments:
ooooh, i'm fitz.
Kathryn in MA
4:07 PM
Sorry! wrong blog. But i have been calling and praising my senators for standing up and leading.
Kathryn in MA
4:08 PM
Kathryn in MA,
Your welcome to get your "fitz" on here :-) And thanks for calling you Senators and letting them know you're behind them.
4:37 PM
Thanks Driftie. I have lit up my blog with this and inserted the number for the senate switchboard (202)224-3121. Just ask for your senator. chances are thier voicemail box will be full, but we can all call again on Monday, eh. Hey fuck em, this is NOT ABOUT winning or losing...its about our republic and our beautiful garden planet!
11:56 PM
I pinged both my senators, but I'm in California. I figured Feinstein was playing her usual cagey self and would support a filibuster. Boxer's the one I'm worried about.
12:38 AM
We all know what Bush is going to say Tuesday night, and how he'll say it. What's more we know that immediately afterward Karl "turd blossom" Rove will get the propaganda machinery running at full speed to paint a rosy picture for that brain-dead 42 percent of the electorate who eagerly swallow this Fascist filth whole.
There's one way to affect the news coverage of the upcoming Bush/Rove tap dance. And that is when Bush begins his SOTU lies, every Democrat in the chamber should simply get up and walk out. No shouting, no banner waving. Just a silent and dignified protest against Bush's attempt to destroy the founding fathers' conception of balance of power, judicial review, and congressional oversight.
Yes, I know. This will never happen. Bush will blather, and the conventional media's stenographers will just repeat his bullshit as if it isn't bullshit.
And then back to business as usual.
1:24 AM
I'm in Australia. I just sent the emails to your Senators through the BuzzFlash website (its allowed)urging them to filibuster Alito.
I changed the message though to let them know that the rest of the world is not stupid and we care very much about our American brothers and sisters and wish them every success in your efforts.
The web has made it possible for the rest of the world to follow your progress. We care! Go to it!
7:27 AM
Europe cares too. If America does not fight for its soul then we are next. I will find a way to e-mail your Senate.
8:12 AM
thank you, Australia!
Use your free speech while you have it. They're takin' it away here. Once the NSA completes their little "experiment", I'm sure it'll be exported to the coalition of the willing.
Oh, and put anot.........aw, fuck it.
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