Filibuster: Will the Senate stand up for the majority of Americans?

[mom cat]

Samuel Alito has not renounced his extremist positions that he has espoused over the years. He tried to keep them from leaking out during the Senate hearings, but his favoring of an imperial presidency and his bias against ordinary people in favor of big business came through loud and clear. Although he "didn't remember" being a member of a group that tried to restrict women and minorities from Princeton, he made sure he put that membership on his job application to the Reagan administration. He was a member from 1970 to 1984 and he "cannot remember"! His lapses in memory are quite selective.He also had difficulty remembering to keep his promise to recuse himself when it came to his own financial interests.But his well coached charade cannot mask his sorry record.
I hope that the Senate will have to insight to stop him at the Judiciary Committee, or fight with a filibuster. Alito's opinions will negatively affect the majority of Americans: women, children' ethnic minorities, people with disabilities,aliens seeking asylum. Alito's rulings, statements, job applications and organizational memberships all show his ruthless disregard for the suffering of folks like you and me.
Will the Senate be courageous enough to stand up for the majority of Americans? Or will they side with the elite like Bush and his corrupt cronies?

[Vincardog]

1. The Senate BETTER be courageous enough to stand up for the majority of

Americans

[mom cat]

6. Keep calling and writing and filling out petitions as if your life

depended on it.

[radio4progressives]

13. You know what pisses me off? We shouldn't even HAVE To write

or fill out petitions as if our lives depended on it.

And in fact, people have. So why should WE be ever vigilent with every single move these fuckers make against our civil liberties?

When it's our Congress Members and in this case Senators who should be watching our backs? isn't that what they were elected to do?

of course it is. So if the Dems back down on this one....

well, suffice it to say, it's pretty much over for this party and our country. Because even IF Dems take back the Senate or Congress at the end of this year - there will be no point in impeachment, and prosecutions because even if the Dems pressed for that, SCOTUS (with Alito)will rule in favor of the Bush Crime Family and forever enshrine the Fascists state, Bush and his thugs will be effectively exonerated.

there will be no justice in this land anymore.

[mom cat]

18. We have to do it because the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

There is no way you can elect people to such powerful offices and then just leave them to their own devices. Power corrupts and we have to constantly watch what they are doing. I wish it was not so, but I don't know any other way, not in the real world.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. Basically we have no hope if Alito is nominated

we might aswell pack up our bags and head for some Democracy elsewhere. Canada might not be too bad or New Zealand?

[mom cat]

7. I am over the age limits for most countries, but I am not too old

to keep fighting here. We have to keep fighting or they will take over Canada and New Zealand too some day.

[savemefromdumbya]

8. aaargh

[mom cat]

12. Yeah. They are afraid that people "my age" would be a drain on their

economy. Please stay and fight.

[radio4progressives]

15. I found that out too.. unless you have "family" relations..

we'll need people here but a bunch of folks have left to go live in Europe already.

[mom cat]

17. Well then, I'll just have to fight harder.

[radio4progressives]

14. Venezuela maybe?

:shrug:

[savemefromdumbya]

16. sounds safe?

[Poppyseedman]

3. stand up for the majority of Americans???

For the 15% that care?

Not a good bet

[mom cat]

9. And also for the ones who are working two jobs and are too tired ti stay

informed, for the people like the disabled man who was threatened with rape by broomstick at his job...Alito did not see the problem. Like the person disabled by a Caterpillar vehicle. Alito sided with the company, of course. Like the ten year old girl who was strip searched. Alito found against her too. Alito voted to send someone back to his country even though he had applied for asylum after His wife was brutally raped and his house burned down. Alito said that the man could not Prove that it happened. How can a person get evidence from a brutal dictatorship that wants to kill you. Alito was a stickler for evidence that could not realistically be obtained and voted to send the man back. What Alito seems to lack is any compassion for the suffering of most of humanity,. Those of us who Do care and who Do have the time for activism, have the responsibility to stand up to the dangers of fascism.

[Waya]

4. Won't hold my breath..........

[Cocoa]

10. don't hold your breath

contact your senators.

[mom cat]

11. I won't either, but if we give up without a fight then all is lost.

[MazeRat7]

5. Not unless we pay them a lot of $$$..... (n/t)