Back to Square One! (Liberal Oasis)interesting points /Alito Loss...

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(I read Digby's good analysis of how we on the Left one a victory in getting so many (25) to try to Fillibuster. It made me feel better. But, I think the comments on "Liberal Oasis" concerning how we should have started sooner (not us, but our Dems) to defeat Alito is also a good read.
You need to start with the Lede of "Back to Square One" and read all the way throught the article which goes back to Obama & Biden's pitiful appearance on the Sunday shows.) It's a good read for the future and ties some loose ends together.)

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The Alito debacle is over, but the battle for the Supreme Court is not.

So far, we have failed to find a way to stop right-wing nominees in today’s landscape: Republican Senate majority, shoddy mainstream media, evasive and dishonest nominees.

Part of the solution is to have a long-term strategy to articulate the dangers of the conservative judicial activist movement.

How the crony corporatists want a judiciary that won’t hold irresponsible companies accountable when they harm individuals and communities.

How the fringe fundamentalists want a judiciary that will impose their values onto everyone else’s personal moral decisions.
We must begin making that critique

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Both Obama’s and Biden’s gritted teeth remarks are a clear sign of displeasure and grumbling, from within the Dem caucus, directed at Kerry for forcing Dems to vote for or against a filibuster.

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Obama is right that Democrats did not make the case.

The case against a Supreme Court nominee, and in turn, the larger case against a conservative judiciary, will always be a complicated one – because it’s a multi-issue campaign that is hard to distill into lay person’s language.

http://www.liberaloasis.com/archives/012906.htm#013106