Sen. Murray Says She Will Oppose Alito

[rsmith6621]

Patty Speaks......

"WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Wednesday she will oppose Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, saying he did not show he will be an independent judge who will uphold the rights and liberties of all Americans."

http://komotv.com/stories/41503.htm

[rodeodance]

1. smart lady

[Evergreen Emerald]

2. Patty speaks for me

Thanks Patty.

[raysr]

3. 10 e-mail threats of not voting for her

and many phone calls later. What about the big "F"?

[AlamoDemoc]

4. Frankly, I am so disappointed with the entire process....

and lack of backbone of the Democrats. I told myself and my close friends that if Elito is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice...Democrats can forget my vote to eternity...that is, that I will never, ever, never, ever, never vote for Democrat again..period.

[brentspeak]

5. So...

All but one Democratic senator will vote against Alito, but somehow they don't have "backbone". Makes sense - not.

Talk about fairweather friends...:eyes:

[madmadmad]

8. well, no filibuster = no backbone, unfortunately.

unless 41 of those 44 no votes support a filibuster, than alito's confirmation is assured. thusly, a simple no vote without a filibuster is an empty gesture, so is most definitely sign of no backbone.

[brentspeak]

9. Where's the public support for a filibuster?

Where's the massive public show of opposition to Alito? How can anyone blame the Democrats for not filibustering under such apathetic circumstances?

[wordpix2]

6. Talk is Dems will OPPOSE but NOT FILLIBUSTER. I wish they would

[brentspeak]

7. They would if

the public would show more interest. But there's hardly any public support for a fillibuster, beyond a few groups.

[AlamoDemoc]

10. This fella (Alito) is the first nominee who has gotten the same

opposition across the board that Judge Bork did at his confirmation...so why aren't the Democrats not filibustering? You have to wonder!

[Lochloosa]

11. Because they don't have the GOD DAMN VOTES TO FILLIBUSTER

work to elect democrats to the senate then scream about it!

[wordpix2]

15. HEY, PUBLIC, call your SENATORS to FILIBUSTER! I plan to call mine---again

[DELUSIONAL]

12. Filibuster or she is a useless DINO

[AlamoDemoc]

13. If Democrats want to let judge Alito go to the supreme court

and use it as 2006 as they plan to do with as the same as (NSA eaves dropping; Ubu Ghraib; Guantanamo; lack of WMD; WMD Memo; Torture; Human rights violations; Al Jaziira memo; Iran war drum beat) to mention a few, they dead wrong...they have no reason allowing this nominee to the court...they have enough ammunition to kill this nomination, considering all that is going on...


on edit: Have you called your Senator yet?

[baby_bear]

14. I will write to her immediately regarding the F word

She's one of my senators and just voting "no" won't cut it.

b_b

[wordpix2]

16. Thing about FILIBUSTER is: it would give Dems a forum to make case v. Bush

Kind of like, Impeachment Lite