FILIBUSTER ALITO! Countering the spin from so-called liberals.

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The spin (from so-called liberals):

Kerry and Kennedy are pandering to the left
Voting no on Alito is fine.
A filibuster fuels and helps to unify the conservative base

NO, NO and NO!

The reality:

This is about principles and conviction
Voting no is not good enough
A filibuster fuels the Democratic base


Here are the reasons the filibuster is important (these individuals/groups make the case):

The Problem with Presidential Signing Statements: Their Use and Misuse by the Bush Administration
By JOHN W. DEAN
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060113.html

Hispanic Leaders Speak out Against Alito
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=27638&cat=Headlines&more=/news/more-news.asp

Hispanic Caucus Opposes Alito Nomination
The Rights of All Americans are in Jeopardy
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ca38_napolitano/morenews/pr012306.html

John Nichols: GOP moderates right to oppose Alito
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=69066&ntpid=0

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) Clergy to Visit Senators in Washington to Urge 'No' Vote on Alito Nomination
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060124/pl_usnw/religious_coalition_for_reproductive_choice__rcrc__clergy_to_visit_senators_in_washington_to_urge__no__vote_on_alito_nomination


From Kerry's remarks on the Senate floor:

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“Perhaps Professor Liu of the Berkeley Law School put it best when he wrote this. He said:

Judge Alito's record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse; where federal agents may point guns at ordinary citizens during a raid, even after no sign of resistance; where the FBI may install a camera where you sleep on the promise that they won't turn it on unless an informant is in the room; where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man, absent a multiple regression analysis showing discrimination; and where police may search what a warrant permits, and then some. This is not the America we know. Nor is it the America we aspire to be.

“So these are the reasons we need to take a hard look at what we are doing, even if it means swimming upstream. There are consequences to this nomination that I do not believe all the American people got out of the hearings because the hearings did not answer questions. And when you pose some of these choices to Americans, they come down on the side that I have described: being protected, not making those kinds of choices about a young kid, making sure that our privacy is protected.

“So for those reasons, and others I will discuss starting on Monday, I oppose Judge Alito's nomination. And I hope that colleagues, others, will join in that effort in the end.


http://www.kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=250868

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1. A thanks to Sen Kerry.

We all should thank Sen. Kerry for sharing this vital information to us all of where Alito stands. I know when Sen Kerry shared what Professor Liu wrote on Alito it put me in touch of how far Alito is actually from main stream America.

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2. I hope this effort serves to educate more people about this. n/t

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5. Evidently the RW spin is hard to kick. n/t