Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ... Could the media be more slanted??

[Blue Belle]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060128/D8FDBVH82.html


Filibusters: Know Them When You See Them
By LAURIE KELLMAN

<SNIP> WASHINGTON (AP) - Filibuster. Senate Democrats have only rarely muttered the 'F' word since 2004, when it played a role in toppling their leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota. Republicans' reaction to filibusters then was to call Daschle the "O" word: obstructionist.

Lesson learned. Many Democrats, now led by Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, resolved to save filibusters for fights they can win.

Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination isn't one of them, by anyone's count.

But that didn't stop Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., from launching a long-distance filibuster effort from Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday. In so doing, he gave opponents of Alito another tool for making their point.

<SNIP> Before Daschle's defeat, Democrats waged several successful filibusters against some of President Bush's appeals court nominees. Now it's Kerry's turn.

"I know it's an uphill battle," Kerry said on the Senate floor. "I hear their arguments. You know, reserve your gunpowder for the future. Well, what is the future if it changes so dramatically at this moment in time?"

We must be getting to the GOP... They must be getting rattled if they're ramping up the "Democrats are such losers wanting the Filibuster" stories. I think I've seen 5 new ones come across just the AP wire alone in the past hour. Be prepared... these stories aren't going to let up all weekend. They're just going to increase and virtually crescendo on the Sunday morning armchair quarterback shows (Our luck they'll put some fence sitter like Biden on as the voice of the Democrats). All this propaganda is straight from the GOP play book and well all know it - we've seen it 1000 times before. We can't let these stories get to us. Keep fighting. Keep faxing, and calling, and emailing these Senators. Keep fighting and make these Pundits eat their words on Monday.

--Belle

[bklyncowgirl]

1. Their aim is to divide the Democrats

If the Republicans weren't worried they wouldn't do this.

[0007]

2. Will Reid have to play along now? We're gonna filibuster

this Alito guy, just watch!

[fooj]

3. How soon the rat bastards forget!

They behave as though the Democrats INVENTED the filibuster! Does filibustering Clinton's Surgeon General nominee ring a fricking bell? Geez..........

Peace.

[Blue Belle]

5. That memory seems to escape them...

as does the memory of ever knowing Jack Abrahmoff... :eyes:

[Justitia]

4. They've been pushing this HARD. They're trying to hypnotize us....

WON'T HAPPEN / CAN'T WIN / FUTILE / USELESS / SILLY / GIVE UP / GIVE UP/ GIVE UP/ STOP CALLING / GO HOME

[Blue Belle]

6. rinse, repeat...

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