Alito Filibuster -- Our Normandy in the Fight to Drive Out the Fascists!!

pat_k

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Tue Jan-17-06 11:43 PM
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Alito Filibuster -- Our Normandy in the Fight to Drive Out the Fascists!!

Alito is emblematic of unlimited executive power.
The fight against Alito is our Normandy in the campaign
to drive out the Bush regime and the ever-expanding
dictatorial powers they claim!

The Choice

Show Strength, Conviction, and Courage
OR
Show Weakness, Equivocation, and Cowardice

More here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x146536

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Visit congress.org to send telegrams or email. Or create your own SOAPBOX alert.

Check Out the letters others are sending from Congress.org -- Looks like 100% against Alito to me.

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pat_k

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Tue Jan-17-06 11:58 PM
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1. Today's Filibuster Posts -- (sorry if I missed some)

Edited on Wed Jan-18-06 12:01 AM by pat_k

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bettyellen

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Wed Jan-18-06 12:21 AM
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2. K+R, I have a thread of older Alito Filibuster posts here.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x25890

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pat_k

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Wed Jan-18-06 12:54 AM
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3. Cool. Thanks! -- Filibuster! Filibuster!! We CAN make it happen!

Edited on Wed Jan-18-06 12:55 AM by pat_k

On Hardball today, they were talking about something else, but Nora O'Donnell (not the brightest bulb, but a good "buzz meter") said "Democrats want to see their leaders to show backbone" (not an exact quote).

Her off-hand comment may be very telling -- an indicator that the buzz in DC is "Gee, the Democrats out there sure are pushing members of the Senate to show some backbone and oppose Alito."

One way or another, her comment is a great sign. Folks like us who are pressuring the Democratic leadership to stand up and show some backbone have come a long way. In the past 18 months or so, we've gone from from being identified by the pund-idiots as "the Looney left," to "the Base", to "the Democrats". . .

Quite an achievement!

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pat_k

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Wed Jan-18-06 04:01 AM
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4. Telgram to Sen. Reid

Posted on Congress.org

To: Sen. Harry Reid

January 18, 2006

Alito is emblematic of unlimited executive power.
The fight to keep him off the Court is our Normandy
in the campaign to drive out the Bush syndicate and the
ever-expanding dictatorial powers they claim.

Alito told us everything we need to know about him when he offered his standard response -- that he couldn't offer an opinion; that he'd figure it out if it came before him -- to the hypothetical case Sen. Biden posed. (If We the People, through our representatives in the Senate and House, passed a resolution prohibiting the President from ordering any sort of attack on Iran, could the President ignore our will and order Bombs to be dropped on Iran?)

It is lunacy to think the constitution gives (or even might give) the President the power to unilaterally and brazenly violate the collective will of the people codified in a Congressional resolution. You don't need to be a constitutional scholar, or even have a high school diploma, to know that such absolute power is NEVER freely given to a leader; it is only taken by deception or force.

Alito must be rejected to on principle -- American principle vs Fascist principle.

Each member of the Democratic caucus has a choice:

Show Strength, Conviction, and Courage
OR
Show Weakness, Equivocation, and Cowardice

Help them make the right decision!

Westfield , NJ

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pat_k

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Wed Jan-18-06 01:46 PM
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5. Letters to Leaders (congress.org)

Edited on Wed Jan-18-06 01:47 PM by pat_k

Some Letters to Leaders at Congress.org. Some Good Snippets

To: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison link

. . . If a nominee to the Supreme Court deserves a simple "up" or "down" vote, then surely the people deserve a simple "yes" or "no" to the questions posed by their elected officials. . .

To: Sen. Ben Nelson link

. . .How in the name of all that is holy and American can you endorse Alito? This man is not fit to serve as a Justice of the Peace much less on the highest court in the nation. . .

To: Sen. Hillary Clinton link

The Words of Statesmen:
. . .
"An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution - an all-powerful executive too reminiscent of the King from whom they had broken free."
-- John Adams

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
-- James Madison
. . .

To: Sen. Harry Reid link

We have to block the appointment of Judge Alito. If it requires a filibuster, so be it. If you can't use the filibuster out of fear of a nuclear option, what good is it. They win without doing a thing. Make them impose that option if they dare. Alito is so dishonest and dangerous; we can't allow him to be appointed. . .

To: Sen. Patrick Leahy

isn't it NOW or NEVER?

Randolph , NJ

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