I just called Senator Reid's office and asked for a filibuster.

[Botany]

If not now, when?
If not Alito, who?
If not the Supreme Court, where?

On C - Span the repug senator from Virginia all but dared the dems to
filibuster ...... "Make my day, I will pull the constitutional trigger gladly."

Time to stand up to these thugs ...... a no vote w/ out a filibuster is a yes vote.

[Mass]

1. I agree totally.

[EFerrari]

2. Post his contact info please? n/t

[Botany]

3. here you go

Reid, Harry- (D - NV) Class III
528 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: reid.senate.gov/email_form.cfm

[EFerrari]

4. Thank you! n/t

[EFerrari]

7. Called and urged Harry to fillibuster and promised to support him. n/t

[Blue Belle]

25. Thanks for posting the info...

I just sent an email.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Allen threatened the Democrats too?

SOB. They BETTER filibuster!:grr:

[Botany]

6. Sure did!

"Make my day .... filibuster." rough quote

Time to look the devil in the eye and call him a Son of a Bitch!

[Justitia]

10. I consider that a direct threat to more than half the US population.

We should make that meathead eat his words.

[LibDemAlways]

14. Allen makes pond scum appealing.

The Dems have to filibuster and force the repukes to go nuclear. The American people haven't been paying attention and don't know what's at stake. If the Dems don't do this, it's going to come back and bite them in the ass when voters start asking "Why the hell didn't you do more to block this Nazi who's taking away our rights? Why didn't you show some spine?"

If not now, when?

By the way, this is off topic, but for those of you who haven't read it here previously, I went to high school with George Allen and have firsthand knowledge of what a scumbag he is. He spraypainted racist graffiti on the walls of our high school, was caught, and had to publically apologize. He was probably the only teenager in Southern California (where he grew up) to proudly display Confederate battle flags on his car. If you know anyone in Virginia, please spread the word that he's the lowest of the low.

[flpoljunkie]

20. R's may want to think twice on nuke option, as they may not have the votes

Republicans may want to think long and hard before they change the rules of the Senate on filibusters for judicial nominations--especially when we may well kick their asses in November and take back one or both houses of Congress. Do they really want to go down this road?

Call their bluff! Make Dick Cheney come in, if necessary, and break the tie to change the filibuster rules on judicial nominations.

Article from when this last came up in April, 2005:

Filibuster Vote Will Be Hard to Predict
Undecided Republicans Are Big Unknown

By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 28, 2005; A04

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20 ...

Republicans are angry that Democrats have used the filibuster -- which can be stopped only by 60 votes in the 100-member Senate -- to block 10 of President Bush's appellate court nominees. Senate GOP leaders want to ban such filibusters, but some of their 55 members dislike the idea. All 44 Democrats and the chamber's lone independent flatly oppose it.

Democrats say a two-thirds majority is required to change Senate rules, but Republicans plan to use a constitutional argument to contend that a simple majority will suffice to ban judicial filibusters. For three months, lawmakers, aides and lobbyists have speculated on whether Frist can muster the 50 votes needed to enable Cheney to put him over the top.

Frist can lose only five Republicans, and three appear almost surely gone. Sens. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.), John McCain (Ariz.) and Olympia J. Snowe (Maine) have condemned the proposed rule change so sternly that party leaders assume they will side with Democrats. Many Republicans also expect to lose Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), although she remains publicly uncommitted. Collins "believes that the filibuster has been overused but would like to see the situation resolved through negotiation rather than a rule change," her office said yesterday.

If Collins, Chafee, McCain and Snowe oppose the change, then Frist could suffer only one more GOP defection. Speculation hangs most heavily on Sens. John W. Warner (Va.), Chuck Hagel (Neb.) and Arlen Specter (Pa.), all of whom say they are undecided.

______________________

There is an obvious reason why Frist accepted the Gang of 14 Compromise. He did not have the votes! Is there any real reason to believe he has them now?

[Armstead]

8. Me too -- left a mesage

[seafan]

9. Lindsey Graham said yesterday re Dems: "We'll clean their clock."

Sounds to me like the last throes of a bully before the little upstart kid he's picking on lands a right hook.

Then the wailing and sniveling little creep runs screaming and crying home to Mama.

I guess he thinks *Dems are being mean* to his Supreme Court hack nominee.

Tough.

[Justitia]

11. I'm sick of being THREATENED by SENATORS! They need to STEP BACK!

Where the hell do they get off threatening us??? "Make my day", "pull the trigger", "clean our clocks" - WTF????

I am so ready to make them Back The Fuck Up.

[Botany]

13. Draw a line in the dirt and beg em to cross it.

throw away 200 years of rules to get a perjurer on the SCOTUS?

Make the repugs defend that?

[Blue Belle]

22. The only effective threat these Brownshirt Senators have is....

"pull my finger".

The rest is just idle words hanging in the air. If they choose to eliminate the filibuster, it will be to their detriment in the end.

[hillaryandbill]

16. Hillary...

That is why we need to get behind Hillary...Hillary for president...she will bitch those mean spirited Repub's back into the holes they came from...Hillary can do it!!!

[jackstraw45]

18. ROFL

:rofl:

I have a feeling we'll be seeing this post everywhere from you on every topic.

[Blue Belle]

23. Welcome to the DU... hill&bill

Are you for real??

[LiberalAndProud]

28. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

I like Hillary in the senate. I really do.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Just sent emails to Reid, Lincoln, and Pryor.

[mmonk]

15. What was the response to the request?

[debbierlus]

17. ME TOO.

Nice staff person!

[Wordie]

19. K&R

:applause:

Hope it works!

[Zinfandel]

21. Kick!!!

[TygrBright]

24. I called. Waited on hold to talk to a staffer...

...and told her "PLEASE ask Senator Reid to filibuster Judge Alito. We don't NEED a 'unitary executive', we already fought one revolution to get rid of one!"

She was pleasant and thanked me.

frustratedly,
Bright

[liberalla]

26. Totally agree

A "No" vote without a filibuster is a meaningless and empty gesture!

I will be calling him again and others too! Can't give up now!

Let them "pull the constitutional trigger!"

[Trish1168]

27. I called Harry and begged for a filibuster.

I'm hoping my calls (to him and others) make some sort of difference.

[liberalla]

30. You and me both!

[grasswire]

29. done (eom)