SHUT IT DOWN! SHUT IT ALL DOWN NOW!!

[Darkhawk32]

No more fucking around with the Repukes. They are capitulating in the fascist transformation of this country. It's time to do what the Repukes did in 95.

The Repukes are in dereliction of their duty and it's time to take the ball out of their hands.... literally.


Shut it down. Shut it all DOWN!!

[Roland99]

1. FILIBUSTER FILIBUSTER! FILIBUSTER!

[dubyaD40web]

28. And if the repukes go nuk-u-lur..

SHUT IT DOWN!

[Roland99]

36. DAMN STRAIGHT!!

Alito is that line in the sand.


Alito is the straw that broke the camel's back.

[B Calm]

37. I totally agree. It's time to draw the line in the sand!!

[Roland99]

38. GMTA!

:D

[adigal]

68. I agree - and said so

right here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2365202&mesg_id=2365202

Filibuster, goddammit!!

[Child_Of_Isis]

2. capitulating in the fascist transformation?????

It is right dead in our faces and has been for some time now. We are in the grip! Personally, I don't think that they even care that we know...not anymore.

[Tace]

3. Agreed

To even be considering installing a Supreme Court judge nominated by a fraudulent president, not to mention fraudulent GOP majority in both houses of congress, is way beyond absurd -- it's surrealistic, and just damned wrong.

America -- Land Of The Free

[Kazak]

40. It's gotta be a dream...

*pinch*

[Clara T]

4. Shutting it all down is the only way to stop these fascists

The way some posters there think that there is a logical or rational solution to stopping nominees or ending the war or convicting Bushco of war crimes, like there is a functioning system in place to do this. That if we just filed the right lawsuit in the right place it would solve all of our problems.

But we know better - and we know that being careful isn't going to get us anywhere.
Most people are much more comfortable sitting at home writing letters to their reps or the newspaper, signing online petitions and voting in MSNBC polls, and believing that it will affect change. They don't want to get out of their comfort zone and do something at least jarring, if not effective. Also many seem to get put off by people who do.

So those of us who DO advocate these riskier things, or who at least support and encourage the people who do them, can get very frustrated. Because we believe (naively? I don't know) that the more people involved with these efforts the better. That if we had had 40,000 people arrested at the WH last September instead of 400, maybe it could have made a real difference?

As for tactics, the only thing I think would work is mass protests/strikes. I don't mean 300,000 in DC on a Saturday afternoon (although I personally have a BLAST at those events!). I mean whole cities refusing to work, whole industries shutting down.

Shut it down. Shut it all DOWN!!

[tnlefty]

6. Good luck with that! Solidarity is damned near next to impossible, IMHO.

I've just about given up and I really do try to stir things up.

[Roland99]

23. Maybe it's time to finally enact Project X!

[liam_laddie]

59. Exactly right!

All participants are switching to channel XXXXXXXXXXX at midnight
Jan XX and will receive encrypted detailed plans for the Project's
initiation. Forward!
Disclaimer for NSA's sad lack of irony and humour: This is a
sham, probably...

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Yes!

Call, Email, fax etc. We have to encourage them to do so. If they let this fascists freak in than whoever votes for him I'm through with him!

[rudy23]

7. While we wait for history to judge them...

They are working to control the history books.

[Roland99]

10. Welcome to DU, rudy23!

:hi:

[rudy23]

34. Thanks for the warm welcomes

You guys and gals know how to make someone feel at home. You rock!

[Roland99]

35. We'll really be rockin' if the Dems utilize the spines in their bodies and

F I L I B U S T E R ! ! ! !

[Darkhawk32]

11. Welcome Rudy!

:toast:

[stop the bleeding]

13. well said and welcome to DU!

:toast:

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Hi rudy!

[MadHound]

8. Hear Hear!

We can get a much better nominee out of Bush if we reject this little fascist Alito. And quite frankly, if the Dems don't fight now, they won't be able to fight in the future as all of the power will be shifted to the Executive Branch.

[ClayZ]

24. As the twig is bent....

[Roland99]

9. Nominate for homepage!!

[EwokMyWeewok]

12. STOP THE WHOLE GOVT IF YOU HAVE TO

please for the love of everything decent stop this nazi!

[Roland99]

14. Kick, kick, kickity kick.

[Clara T]

15. kick for the truth

[ClayZ]

17. Shut it DOWN!

Stop the MADNESS!

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. K & R!

SHUT IT DOWN!!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

19. Kicking, Nominating And Pumping My Fist In The Air!

I said it for Torture Boy Gonzales, Imelda Rice and Robo Robertson!

I hope someone is finally listening this time!

[Walt Starr]

20. Ayup

But instead, the Democratic Party is pulling out the pink tutus.

[Coexist]

31. Well, there you are...

see my post below. I guess I should read the entire thread before posting, huh.

[AngryAmish]

21. snatch it down!

[G_j]

22. the oath they took requires it IMO

it is their sworn duty

[cascadiance]

25. Damnit yes! K & R!

[katinmn]

26. Kick!

[in_cog_ni_to]

27. KICK!

:kick:

[Marleyb]

29. yeah baby!

:bounce:
:toast:
We have a criminal for a president nominating a supreme court justice who will then be confirmed by a criminal congress?(see 60+ congressmen implicated in Abramoff scandal)

:wtf:


http://benfrank.net/blog/f/sotu-mlk.pdf

[Coexist]

30. Hey, isn't this Walt Starr's job?!

Just kidding.

I think his "Shut it Down" thread, the day before Harry Reid shut down the Senate got the most recommendations I have ever seen in my life!

p.s. one was from me!

[Roland99]

32. I remember that one.

This is just as important, if not moreso.

[tedzbear]

33. Filibuster!

kick

[Roland99]

39. Remember the Repukes shutting the gov't down in '95/'96????

over that budget impasse?


Can't remember if it was '95 or '96...I think it was '96.

[liam_laddie]

61. fall 1995...

We were on a 10-week driving tour of as many National Parks as possible.
We were stopped at a gate into Kings Canyon NP in CA (to see the sequoias)
and were told by the Park Ranger, very politely I might add, that the park was
closed due to the shutdown in DC. He then kindly directed us to a gate about
15 miles away, through which we could request entry to a church camp inside
the park. Worked like a charm! Except for the haze from controlled burns, it
was worth the effort. Fucking rethugs!

[converted_democrat]

41. SHUT IT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!n/t

[Rainscents]

42. Do or Die!!! This is it everyone!!!

SHUT. IT. DOWN!!!

[Usrename]

43. Shut it all down!!

This is not a drill!!

[Pastiche423]

44. SHUT IT DOWN!

[AzDar]

45. If not now...when? SHUT 'ER DOWN!!! n/t

[Roland99]

46. Kick it to Shut it!

[tex-wyo-dem]

47. The time is NOW!

Or forever live with the consequences of doing nothing.

S H U T I T D O W N ! ! !

[Jose Diablo]

48. Now now, lets keep it down

Remember when the nuklar option was on the table and our 'moderates' negotiated a compromise? Many here applauded that action. Truth is, the senate dems should have shut it down way back then. Before those appellate judges got in, before the bankruptcy bill, before the budget bill, before the extension on the Patriot Act. And right here, many voices were raised to say the compromise was good as we still had the filibuster for the time we needed it.

Well, the time is way past.

I'm gonna make a prediction. I bet that just enough Dem Senators give the green light to Alito, that he gets in. Thats how it's been, thats what will happen this time also. Any takers on a friendly wager?

[SammyWinstonJack]

49. .

:kick:

[Dinger]

50. Yesss!!! What Just HAVE TO! nt

[warrens]

51. Yeah, that worked so well for the Repukes in 95

Is there something in the water around here?

[in_cog_ni_to]

84. What the Dems plan to do is DIFFERENT. See post #83

ALSO, 70% of the people in this country DO NOT want Roe v. Wade overturned. The power of the people is on the Democrat's side...not the repukes. They have Plame, Abramoff, Abu Ghraib, the spy scandal.....the people are in NO MOOD for their shit.:)

[TheGunslinger]

52. Bring it to a grinding HALT!!

[Straight Shooter]

53. SHUT IT DOWN!

If we're going down, we're going to go down kicking and screaming bloody murder.

FILIBUSTER! SHUT IT DOWN!

[longship]

54. Burn up their FAX machines.

FAX 'em!!

[PatrioticLeftie]

55. Hear, hear!

Shut it down!

[lala_rawraw]

56. One would think that given

Phase II is dead... even though we know that, rule 21 went poof

[Tom Joad]

57. Don't wait for Dems in Congress to do this, we need to lead the way.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20060107-2040-peacemom.html
Cindy Sheehan:
"Anybody could do what we did in Crawford, Texas. We just went down and sat down," Sheehan told the crowd of several hundred people, with Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn in the front row.

She urged them to loose their apathy and do something. "We have to get so freakin' fed up with what's going on that we all go and sit down," Sheehan said.

Sheehan, a Berekley resident whose 24-year-old soldier son died in Iraq, attracted hundreds of anti-war protesters to her makeshift camp near Bush's ranch in August.

"These people, they're not going to change unless they see us out in the streets," she said at the forum that organizers said was among dozens of town hall-style events held across the nation.

Just Do It.
http://worldcantwait.net/

[RagAss]

58. Turn Out the Fucking Lights and go Home !!!!!!

[leeroysphitz]

60. SHUT it down or by gOD it'll BURN down. n/t

[Clarkie1]

62. We can't shut it down: they have 55 votes, we have 45.

And if we try to shut down they can change the filibuster rules because they have a majority.

They have already demonstrated a willingness to do so.

We have to win in 06'.

[smiley_glad_hands]

69. Dems can shut down the senate procedurally,

It takes 60 votes to break a filibuster, the thugs said they would go nucular if we filibuster. Dem senators have threatened to shut down the senate procedurally if that happens.

Its time to call their bluff.

[Clarkie1]

75. How is it possible that Dems could shut down the senate procedurally?

If the Republicans want to run the senate by themselves, they can.

[in_cog_ni_to]

83. They have shortcuts they use. Instead of actually READING the bills

they have a procedure to skip that. What the Dems can do is invoke the procedure to actually read every word of every bill. Each bill can have THOUSANDS of pages. The Dems could be reading bills until November 2008.;) It doesn't actually SHUT DOWN the Senate, but NOTHING the repukes want to get done will get done.

[Clarkie1]

89. And while the Dems are reading the Republicans will be voting on the bills

All the Republicans have to do is simply revoke the procedure to read every word of the bill.

[warrens]

127. Not a bad idea

Since the Repukes never let anyone, even on their side, read bills before a vote anyway...

[Roland99]

133. There ya go!

[raggedcompany]

63. Agreed. Stop everything and let the culture war begin in earnest. n/t

[MadisonProgressive]

64. NO MORE FOLLOWING THE SCRIPT!

IT'S TIME TO THROW IT ALL OUT THE WINDOW! IT'S TIME TO AD LIB!!!

[FogerRox]

65. The House-The House- ..... .. . . . .

The House is shut down-- Chanted to the tune of "the roof-the roof-the roof is on fire"

Ok I know its the Senate- but the phrasing wasnt right.

Personally-- If ALito is confirmned-- I dont think we get another chance. NOt in '06. I think we are talking suspension of the Constitution, purges, prison camps for acitivists disruptors, more dissappearances. I have beeen really forward to '06, my 2nd carrer is in Campaign field operations-----------------

I think we have to be ready to go down to DC in numbers to support the dems if they

Shut the Mother down . . .

[TheGunslinger]

66. Oh, look! Sen. Specter must be joining the call to filibuster, too!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=124542&mesg_id=124542


:rofl:


PWNED!!

[smiley_glad_hands]

67. I've been getting alot of contribution requests lately,

They better show me that they stand for something. Or they get nada.

[DemBones DemBones]

71. We've been telling them why we're NOT contributing now, every call

or e-mail or letter we get.

TELL THEM NO AND TELL THEM WHY.

[laruemtt]

110. i did that to dean's request

for $ the other day. i told him i love him but until the dems grow some major cajones, i'm holding onto my hard-earned money!

[Rainscents]

70. Darkhawk32... Could you please send this tread to Harry Reid?1?!

He need to know how "We The People" feels about Alito!!!

[populistdriven]

72. shut-it-down !!!!

[Darkhawk32]

123. Did you just make that for this thread??? n/t

[fooj]

73. Walk out on the treasonous traitors!

Peace.

[stillrockin]

74. Amen to that . . .

Time to use that dry powder!!!

[nicknameless]

76. Hard kick for Shutting the MoFo DOWN!

K&R

[tyedyeto]

77. We filibuster! They go nuclear! I say shut it down!!!

Total agreement!

[CrackpotAmerica]

78. I think that our Dems should oppose every measure until..

either 2008, or until Impeachment..

Each "victory" for these monsters brings us one step closer to fascism.

Shut down, let essential govt rely on last year's budget/policy and don't re-open until this man has been lost to history.

:nominated:

[FogerRox]

79. SHUT THE MO FO DOWN

If the DEMS do SHUT IT DOWN-- lets back them up--

here-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2365675&mesg_id=2365675

[sweetm2475]

80. shut the f**cker down!!!! K&R!

:kick: :nuke:

[samhsarah]

81. NO MORE BUSHIT!!!!

And here's a K&R:kick:

[Guaranteed]

82. Roberts was bad...This is the apocalypse. IT'S FUCKING TIME.

That's it.

There is no more moving backward, Dem leaders. You've run out of running room.

Let me say it to you like I was speaking to a four-year-old:

It's...time...to...fight...now...

[mom cat]

85. If they go nuclear, we will out nuke them!

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

[buddysmellgood]

86. 98 recommends! Who gets to be 100? If we can't draw a line when the pukes

are at an all time low with scandal...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

87. That would be me!!

:bounce: SHUT IT DOWN! :bounce:

[buddysmellgood]

88. Whoooo Hoooooo!

[Petrushka]

90. Kick! [**upsy-daisy**]

[Darkhawk32]

91. OMG Wow! Thanks for your support and for your energy! n/t

[bonzotex]

92. Filibustering Alito is the shake up we need....

When are the Elected Dems going to draw the line? When, as a group will they finally stand up and say enough? What horrible tragedy will be the catalyst?

A trillion dollars of unnecessary foreign debt?
An unnecessary, endless war based on lies and greed with thousands dead?
Thousands dead and missing from a predictable, preventable disaster? 100s of thousands left homeless and adrift?
America growing more impoverished and dependent on foreign oil?
30 years of environmental progress reversed in 5 years?
Americans being spied on without warrant by the Federal Govt?
Americans held without trial or counsel?
Torture used as a routine and accepted means of interrogating prisoners in American custody?

Oh wait, they sat by and talked strategy and compromise while all that already happened. In some cases they supported it.

You have to stand for something or you will fall for anything. The republicans have decided to stand for bigotry, war for profit, institutionalized corruption and christian fascism. They are building their dream world with barely a speed bump on the way.

What are the existing elected Dems going to stand for collectively?

No Democrat should vote for Alito for any reason. A filibuster of his nomination should not have been pooh-poohed by prominent Dems as soon as the hearings closed. These people suck and it's really only a few that keep the Party from having some power. We all can work to elect better Democrats in 2006 and 2008 but how much more of America will we lose in the meantime?

[Independent_Liberal]

93. Damn right!

LISTEN HERE DEMOCRATS!

DON'T LET THOSE REPUKE BASTARDS SCARE YOU! NOW IS THE TIME! GO FOR IT!

SHUT IT DOWN!

I MEAN IT!

SHUT IT THE FUCK DOWN!

[LincolnMcGrath]

94. SHUT IT DOWN!

[FogerRox]

95. SHUT IT DOWN

[4morewars]

96. SHUT IT DOWN

[Nostradammit]

97. How much more do good people need to see? Shut it down!

Please, please, please save our union. Quit bringing knives to the gunfight, senators.

[drfresh]

107. I'll bet not much of America saw the hearings. -nt

[donheld]

98. It's loooooooooong over due

What's it gonna take?

[Not_Giving_Up]

99. SHUT IT DOWN!

Make Hatch wish he'd never said "Bring it on."

[FogerRox]

100. SHUT IT DOWN

[TheGunslinger]

102. Oh, great pic!

[fooj]

139. Jimmy brings tears to my eyes...

:cry: I want my country back!

SHUT IT DOWN!!!

[AuntiBush]

101. Shut it Down

SHUT IT DOWN!

[AntiFascist]

103. FASTER, PLEASE!

sorry, just had to.

[Vidar]

104. I fervently agree.

[Rainscents]

105. I sent this tread to Senator Harry Reid!!!

:bounce:

[RoyGBiv]

106. Bring it down! Bring it down!

[Binka]

108. It's NOW Or Never

It is high time for the OPPOSITION PARTY to start acting like it. SHUT THE BITCH DOWN!

[WilliamPitt]

109. The shutdown in '95 was over the budget

The shutdown happened because there was no money to run the government.

With no budget fight on the table, how do you propose shutting anything down?

[katinmn]

112. Think outside the box! n/t

[tyedyeto]

115. Any one Senator has the right to demand a bill before the floor...

be read in it's entirety before a vote is taken. If each and every bill is to be read, very little will get done since many would take hours or even days to be read in it's entirety. That is what is meant by shutting it down. It wouldn't be a total closure but little would get done.

[WeHoldTheseTruths]

117. Shutdown the media bs anyway

The media will be forced to cover it in depth. It would go on for days and build, like Cindy Sheehan camped out in Texas. As the days go by more and more of Alito's lies and evasiveness will be exposed. The Democrats will read from the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on the senate floor. America will know they are saving the Republic. America does not want a king.

It would give us time to explain how Alito will overturn Roe, and then 70% of the people will be on our side. We have the moderate pro-life Republicans.

If the democrats don't put up a fight the media presents Alito as OK. For the media to report the negative on Alito, the Democrats have to speak loudly -

then it becomes a debate, a debate we will win.

We can declare a scandal, we have several to choose from. A filibuster will give us time to educate the people over the gravity of the situation. A filibuster will get people interested. "If the normally timid Dems who approved Roberts are blocking him he must be bad" the public will think.

We can educate the public about Alitos extremism. We will win a filibuster.

.


Snipetts from
We Will Win A Filibuster - Tell the World
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/12/194652/357

[lonestarnot]

119. filibusters are disruptive enough to shut things down william pitt.

[Roland99]

122. Start filibustering EVERYTHING!

At least until the repukes start learning about the word, compromise.

Until they realize one-party rule (no matter the party) is bad for America.

[EVDebs]

124. I hear Iraq is costing $2 trillion...thats 1/6th of $12 T annual GDP

in the US. Paul Craig Roberts, a Republican no less, is pushing for impeachment...or at the least for a 'Damascus Moment' by the current crop of r's in office to stop and think about what they are doing to the country. Putting party in front of national interests is a project designed to fail.

[Walt Starr]

131. Shut the Senate down, Will. It's very simple to do. All you have to do is

follow every single Senate Rule to the letter. Object every last time unanimous consent for anything is requested. Adhere to the letter of the Senate rules.

If you shut down the Senate, you have effectively shut down WarPig's agenda.

[laruemtt]

111. and when they fail to shut it down,

it's up to us, the people. if our limp-balled congress critters sell us out again, we get ready to R-U-M-M-M-B-L-E. revolution is the only language spoken or understood at this point.

[deutsey]

113. Oh, gee, I don't know...won't that make the GOP angry?

Wrings hands.

:sarcasm:

[Roland99]

125. GOP = Mongo?

"No, no, no, no, no. Don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him angry."

[deutsey]

136. No...Mongo just pawn in game of life.

:evilgrin:

[Roland99]

138. LOL!

[crowcalling]

114. Shut it down!!

Are ya going to wait until ya are being put on railway cars to Gitmo and the people you said you represented are all fleeing to other countries for their own safety?

Now is a good time!

[lonestarnot]

116. This is the only solution. Dems must take the risk.

[lonestarnot]

118. Shut her down!

[foreverdem]

120. SHUT IT DOWN!!!

You work for us! We say SHUT THE WHOLE MOTHER DOWN!!!

[lonestarnot]

121. Call you senators folks if you've already called, call them again!

[Roland99]

126. Exactly! Let's "git 'r done!"

[lonestarnot]

128. You "git 'r done" kid roland99, I prefer to IMPEACH and we are

not going to do that with Alito appointed to SCOTUS.

[Roland99]

129. That's what I meant. "Git 'r done!" Filibuster!

SHUT IT DOWN!

[lonestarnot]

130. Oh... just redneck for filibuster?

[Roland99]

132. Just a phrase that popped into my mind

;)

[FogerRox]

134. come on people recommend this thread

[myrna minx]

135. SHUT IT DOWN!

K&R :kick:

[iconoclastNYC]

137. Impeach Bush & Impeach his Judges

Illegal Presidents beget illegal appointments. Impeach them all.

[lonestarnot]

140. kick!

[TheGunslinger]

141. Raise Your Voice! SHUT IT DOWN!!!