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Saturday, January 28, 2006

A Letter to All - From Mario

This is really our last chance, folks...

Please read and help if you wish:


WE CAN STOP ALITO THIS WEEKEND

http://www.democrats.com/we-can-stop-alito

The last two days have been amazing.

Early Thursday afternoon, we broke the news that Senator John Kerry would lead a filibuster against Judge Sam Alito if he could get 41 Senators to sustain the filibuster. Three hours later, CNN confirmed our story.

Naturally, the White House freaked out and told Senator Bill Frist to schedule a cloture vote as quickly as possible - Monday at 4:30 p.m. - to prevent Democrats from uniting behind Kerry.

Then the White House called its media whores at the NY Times (David Kirkpatrick), AP (Jesse Holland), Pentagon Post (Charles Babington), CNN (Miles O'Brien), and MSNBC (Chris Matthews) and told them to trash John Kerry for daring to challenge the will of Emperor Bush, and to repeat over and over that Democrats did not have enough votes to stop Alito.

But even as Karl Rove was doing his dirty work, progressive activists like you were calling your Senators urging them to support John Kerry's filibuster.

And one by one, Democratic Senators began to turn around.


http://democrats.com/alito-48

At the start of the day, only Dick Durbin and Debbie Stabenow supported Kerry and Kennedy. Just before noon, Hillary Clinton's office called to say she supported us. Then Harry Reid came on board, along with Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold, Ron Wyden, Chris Dodd, and (I think) Chuck Schumer.

Most importantly, we even picked up Dianne Feinstein, who just yesterday said she opposed a filibuster.

That's 12 votes for a filibuster - and exactly 12 more votes than we had two days ago!

I believe we really can stop Alito by Monday at 4:30 p.m. - but here's what we must do.

1. Ignore the media whores. Karl Rove is feeding them lies as he always does, and they are swallowing those lies as they always do.
The only media that matters is the media we are creating right here by calling each Senator and getting a YES or NO statement from them.

2. Keep calling the Senators who are undecided or opposed to a filibuster. You can call their DC office all weekend and leave polite but firm voicemails urging the Senators to support Kerry's filibuster. When offices open on Monday 9 a.m. ET, make another round of calls. Let's shut down the Capitol switchboard on Monday!

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm


3. Call the DNC (202-863-8000) and the DSCC (202-224-2447) and tell them your 2006 contributions will depend on the success of the Alito filibuster. Tell them they need to get every Democratic Senator on board.

Keep hope alive - because American Democracy is worth it!!!

Alito is wrong ....he was wrong 85% of the time....he is a right wing extremist who wants to give unregulated power to the president ( remember bushbots Hillary looks like our next president...do you really want her to have such powers?....I sure dont )

Our nation is facing a Constitutional crisis. We have a president who thinks he is above the law....and has willing accomplices in his party and in the corporate media....we cant afford to have an extreme right wing judge in the swing seat of the SC.

This is a man who always sides with big government and corporations...in other words......
a Fascist.

This is a man who thinks it is ok to strip search 10 year old girls w/o a warrant.

But most of all he is incompetent...he was in the minority dec. 85% of the time...even in the 3rd District..one of the most conservative circuits in the judicial system.

He is Brownie with a robe.

I didn’t do this when Bush nominated Roberts...and I didn’t have to when he nominated the obviously unqualified Myers....but I draw the line at Alito...he is a slap in the face of American Democracy.

I cant urge this enough.....phone calls work! We cant take these pigs golfing in Scotland but we can threaten them and make them act like Democrats....for once!

"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and, now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives."

Portland Oregonian



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