Dear Senators-You Dropped the Ball, We Picked It Up (Kos)

[kpete]

Dear Senators
by georgia10
Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 09:26:53 AM PDT
Tomorrow, you will vote on whether to end debate on the nomination of Samuel Alito. In an atmosphere where too many mask their intentions in platitudes and coy terms, allow me to blunt. You dropped the ball. Before the hearings, you failed to establish a clear strategy approaching this nomination. At the hearings, you tried, but failed to convey to the American people how disastrous Alito's record really is. After the hearings, it became each member for himself. And finally, you let the media confirm this man without question.

You dropped the ball, and it would have been easy for us to heed the Republican call and give up. But when you dropped the ball, Senators, we picked it up. The second you approached us for help, we pounced into action. We leaped to action not because we were sure of victory. We are the reality-based community, after all. We know the numbers are against us. We know the chances of a successful filibuster are near zero. But we also know that if you don't stand up for your beliefs when so much is at stake, rhetoric of opposition rings painfully hollow.

More below...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/29/112653/751

[acmavm]

1. They've 'dropped the ball' so many times that it's become standard

operational procedure for them. We need to boot out most of these bums and start over.

[Amaryllis]

2. If you want to vote them out, we MUST stop all our votes being counted

on computers programmed by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, private corporations with GOP political and financial ties, using trade secret software that not even our election officials can access.
See www.whoscounting.net

[wisteria]

3. Very good and well put- absolutely, they dropped the ball.

And may I suggest that Reid tops this list. He let this go and I would like him to explain why.

[omega minimo]

4. We're helping them find their balls

From the look of this dedicated forum, though, will anything really change after this? We love the excitement and the cheering, the action and the slogans, rah rah like it is a sporting event................. information, not so much. We look like followers, not leaders, an aroused rabble, not an informed citizenry.

I believe we will win this one and maybe even shift the pendulum back from its extreme course, but unless people really wake up and learn to be diligent AHEAD OF TIME and not at the brink of disaster, nothing will really change.

It didn't have to go this far.... Or did it? :think:

:yoiks: