SHUT IT DOWN!

[Walt Starr]

FORCE THE DAMNED FASCIST PRICKS TO CHEAT, BREAK THE RULES OF THE SENATE, AND GO NUCLEAR!!

THEN SHUT IT DOWN!!!

NO UNANIMOUS CONSENT, OBJECT EVERY TIME IT'S REQUESTED!

NO DISPENSING OF THE READING OF BILLS!!! EVERY LAST LINE OF EVERY LAST BILL MUST BE READ IN FULL. THAT'S ALL 13,000 PAGES IF THAT'S HOW LONG THE BILL IS!!!

NO ENTERING OF COMMENTS INTO THE RECORD! OBJECT EVERY LAST TIME IT HAPPENS!!! FORCE EVERY LAST WORD TO BE SPOKEN ON THE SENATE FLOOR!!!

NO CLOTURE ON ANYTHING EVER AGAIN!!! FILIBUSTER EVERY LAST PIECE OF LEGISLATION OFFERED!!!

PULL THE TRIGGER! REACH DOWN AND SHOW THE FASCIST BASTARDS YOU HAVE A PAIR!!!

SHUT IT DOWN!

[Tesla]

1. Stand up and shut it down!!!

[livetohike]

2. Nominated

In case they need advice on how to get it done :-).

[wordpix]

3. here, hear: Shut It and Speak Out---here' your chance, Senators!

I wonder why vocalrrhea mouth Biden is voting against cloture. Here's a chance for him to talk all night

[converted_democrat]

4. K&R......n/t

[TahitiNut]

5. Agree. Don't forget ... DEMAND A QUORUM AT ALL TIMES.

Drag these bastards away from their cash-peddling lobbyists and glue them to their seats!

[IndyOp]

28. A Quorum At All Times? Senators listening to each other?!?! OMG! (nt)

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[mom cat]

30. Make them work? Novel Idea.. LOL

[lyonn]

43. My gawd, they'd want a raise!

It would do wonders for C-Span. Some real tv viewing.

[KarenS]

6. Time for the Opposition Party to act like one!!!

SHUT IT DOWN!!!!

[Benhurst]

7. Sadly, I think we are reaching the point where such action

will be necessary.

Recommended.

[Beetwasher]

8. THIS FAR AND NO FURTHER!!!

I agree, enough is enough.

[AngryAmish]

9. Snatch it Down!

[Marnieworld]

10. SHUT IT DOWN!

That is what democracy looks like. Fight!

[Efilroft Sul]

11. Standing with you, Walt. Shut it down! n/t

[Dhalgren]

12. I agree completed!

SHUT IT DOWN!

[bmcatt]

13. K&R and "hear, hear!"

If not this, what? If not now, when?

[Greylyn58]

14. ABSOLUTELY---SHUT IT DOWN!!!

THIS GOES NO FURTHER!!!! Prove to us that you still have a backbone!!! FIGHT! FIGHT TILL THE DEATH!!

[choicevoice]

15. Can this be put into a format that we can blast to Dem Senators?

Repubs have a strangle hold on the federal government and with the confirmation of Alito will have the same on the Supreme Court. Can this be polished and formatted into a message that we can blast to all Dem Senators. Let them know that their worry about being ineffective doesn't matter if they have no power. They either need to grow a pair or get the &%^$# out of the way and we will work to replace them with true Democrats who will stand for the people of the United States.

[Midlodemocrat]

16. Shut it down!!!

The time is now. We have sat on our hands for too long while these fascists destroy every single thing we believe in.

SHUT IT DOWN!!!

Let them go nuclear if they want to.

[Notafraid2]

17. Yes!

SHUT IT DOWN! It ends here, no more shall we sit here watching the destruction of our country- I dare you corporate whores to go nuclear!

[ClayZ]

18. SHUT IT DOWN!

It is time to have a "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS, SALE" on the REPUBLICANS

[Gregorian]

19. I don't think they're going to do that. Just called Levin's office.

The guy answering the phone made it clear that it was either cloture or fillibuster.

I mentioned stolen elections, 911 commission, torture, spying, outting Plame, and illegal war. What does it take to restrain this administration?

Nothing...

I'm off to phone more offices. Someone must realize this administration must be stopped now.


Edit- Well, Kerry's office says they are doing everything they possibly can...

Next...


Edit- Kennedy's office says what I was affraid they'd say. Look, DU, we know what's going on. But in order to act on it, it must be proven. That would require hearings. We're in the minority in both houses. That kind of puts an end to any "legitimate" restraint we can place on this monkey administration. I'm saddened. It's like being raped.

[EVDebs]

39. Shut down The Huston Plan, aka REX84, aka 'suspension of Constitution'

Alito and Roberts, while in the Reagan's administration, worked on executive orders that allowed for these REX84, Ollie North/GHWBush plans to 'suspend the Constitution' and arrest and detain dissenters

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/fema.html

Alito MUST be stopped or at least made to comment on his Reagan rubberstamping of these executive orders. The irony of a new Supreme Court justice who allowed for the 'suspension of the Constitution' is MINDBLOWING.

They should have been disbarred, not rewarded with the lifetime gig.

[murray hill farm]

20. Yep!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHUT IT DOWN!!!

[WI_DEM]

21. I Agree

We'll pull our own Nuclear option.

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. Karl Rove would love that

Does anyone remember what happened when the GOP shut down the government in 1995?

[unkachuck]

23. Thank you, Sir....n/t

[FogerRox]

24. yes

SHUT IT DOWN

SHUT THE SENATE DOWN

[madokie]

25. You got it bro'

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

26. Tsk, Tsk, Walt. You're asking politicians to DO something.

Sorry, they're too busy posing and chasing contributions.

[AzDar]

27. I'm with you Walt...if nothing else, this should GALVANIZE the Dems

to stop being doormats for the worst Administration in U.S. history. FIGHT BACK, DAMN YOU!!!!

[radio4progressives]

29. K&R

:toast:

[understandinglife]

31. Got my vote.

Peace.

[mike_c]

32. hear hear-- time to start fighting for the republic, dammit!

SHUT IT DOWN!

[0007]

37. The time has arrived

[mmonk]

33. True patriots will want to.

[cascadiance]

34. Make the only exception a bill to help victims of Katrina!

That would:

a) help prioritize that effort for those Americans in a timely fashion over everything else that would get shut down.
b) help Mary Landrieu get pulled back into the fillibuster.
c) give us better P.R. on the effects of a fillibuster, where not only is it hopefully shutting down all of the Republicans' efforts to pass their own mess of junk, it would help us meet the needs of needy Americans that much sooner, which should get us more support for a fillibuster who might not otherwise support it!

[nookiemonster]

35. Shut the damn thing down!!

:kick:

[AntiFascist]

36. Damn straight!

This is what they deserve for defrauding elections!!

[bnr65432]

38. I completely agree

shut them down!
I just hope they actually to do it

[Leopolds Ghost]

40. Heh heh... every time I see this I think of "Dark City"

DARK SENATE

Starring John kerry as John Murdoch

...wakes up in a bathtub in Davos, Switzerland.

"Where am I? What's happened to me? What's happened
to the Democratic Party?"

Kiefer Sutherland as Karl Rove

"You must believe me... heh... You are part of a... heh...
vast media experiment engineered by elected officials known as...
heh... Strangers... heh... they will stop at nothing... I work
for them... there is nothing they won't do... you must surrender
to them... you must trust me... I am a traitor to the... human race."

Joe Lieberman as Mr. Book

Assorted Dems as The Strangers

MR. BOOK: He has developed the ability to 'filibuster'.

MR. QUICK: How is that possible?!

MR. HAND: We have seen it for ourselves.

MR. HAND: He convinced Mr. Biden.

ALL: Mr. Biden... no more!

MR. QUICK: Poor... poor Mr. Biden.

MR. BOOK: Enough! We have no more use for the Senate Rules we have constructed to test the patience of our American subjects. From now
on all our tests will be conducted on Mr. Kerry. SHUT IT DOWN!
SHUT IT DOWN FOREVER!!!

Kerry: Take me to the 2006 Elections!

Rove: You still don't understand do you... there are no 2006 elections... your entire political careeer has been engineered by the Strangers... they own the entire news media and the voting machines... you will not find what you are looking for!

Kerry: I'm filibustering anyway.

Rove: No... stop! You'll destroy what little... hhm... power you have left. Please stop, I beg you!

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

60. An excellent parody. Well done! n/t

[lyonn]

41. OK n/t

[wiggs]

42. Let's do it! What good piece of legislt'n has come from congress anyway?

[wicket]

44. AMEN!!!!

Give 'em hell Walt!!!

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

[stepnw1f]

45. SHUT IT DOWN!!!!!!!!

Stop feeding the monster!

[Nederland]

46. Question

How did playing the obstructionist work for Newt?

[lyonn]

61. Because Newt was wrong and the Dems are right on this issue

[EndElectoral]

47. Best post of the year!!!

[EndElectoral]

48. May be time for a ceremonial dumping of tea in the Potomac

[Lifelong Protester]

49. time for a stand all right

THE REPUBS are like GODZILLA~ and people are just watching it(the MONSTER) tear holes in our liberties and constitution and doing nonthing but flipping the channel to the latest episode of whatever mind-numbing crap is on TV.

Man the barricades, NOW!!

[jus_the_facts]

50. ...to dream the impossible dream...

To dream the impossible dream.
To fight the unbeatable foe.
To bear with unbearable sorrow.
To run where the brave dare not go.

To right the unrightable wrong.
To love pure and chaste from afar.
To try when your arms are too weary.
To reach the unreachable star.

This is my quest.
To follow that star.
No matter how hopeless.
No matter how far.
To fight for the right,
Without question or pause.
To be willing to march into hell
For a heavenly cause.
And I know, if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful
And calm when I'm laid to my rest.

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable stars.

[spuddonna]

51. AMEN!!! n/t

[wiley]

52. Great Idea!

[the other one]

53. rotflmao! you want WHO to do WHAT?

I can't stop laughing!!!

Oh, and I agree with everything you say, too, but I can't believe in my wildest fantasies that the democratic leadership will ever again be anything but an oxymoron.

But thanks for laugh! Oh shit do my sides hurt!

Oh but how I wish it would come true!

Stop it your killing me!

[lyonn]

62. We have about 2 days to relish in this great fantasy!

Don't bother me, I'm doing voo doo.

[in_cog_ni_to]

54. THIS THREAD SHOULD BE SENT TO HARRY REID!

Sorry for yelling, but I just needed to be heard.:7 Reid needs this thread! I'll email it to him. I wonder if they've even thought about this??? I wonder if they have the balls to do it?

SHUT IT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHUT-IT-DOWN!

[in_cog_ni_to]

55. I just sent this thread to Reid, Kerry and Kennedy.

I hope they HEAR US and listen.:)

[KitSileya]

56. I agree!

These dems need to *do* something.

How does the saying go? No pasaran! This far, but no farther!

[WyLoochka]

57. Agree SHUT IT DOWN! n/t

[TheVirginian]

58. What would this accomplish?

Out of curiousity.

[WyLoochka]

63. It would suffocate the

effects of the Frist/Cheney detonation of the nooo cooo lar opshun.

[stlsaxman]

59. Harry shut it down before- he must do it NOW!

Quo-RUM!!

Quo-RUM!!!

Quo-RUM!!!!!