UPDATE: Only 25 Senators voted to continue the debate over Sam Alito by voting NO on “Cloture”. Thus, the filibuster ends, and Samuel Alito will likely be confirmed tomorrow morning in time for King George to shove him up America’s ass in time for the State of the Union speech tomorrow night. Bless all of you patriots who care about our country and were willing to fight for it no matter the outcome. In particular, thanks to The Young Turks for setting an example of what a “noble cause” actually looks like. Still busy in large part today, but I’ll try to post a list soon of those Senators who deserve the support of nobody in America ever again. History will not forget them. Shame.
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Unfortunately, I’ve got some pre-scheduled appointments throughout the day, which is going to make it difficult for me to cover the play-by-play of the attempted filibuster of Alito. So please feel free to use comments in this thread to Be the Media today, while I do my best to come in and out.
If ever there was a time for Dems to step up and fight for this country, to draw a line in the sand against George W. Bush’s extremist takeover of the government and his hatred of American Values it is now!
Keep listening to The Young Turks who continue to filibuster on air. You can watch their live video feed here. Live audio feeds are here and here.
At this hour (1:58p ET), C-SPAN lists the tally of announced intentions for Alito Confirmation as YES: 57 NO: 35. The vote for “Cloture” (ending of the debate, and thus ending the filibuster) is scheduled for 4:30p ET. It takes 60 YES votes by Republicans and turncoat Democrats to end the filibuster.
Keep calling Senators constantly to share your opinions if you care about the future of this country and feel that George W. Bush does not deserve unrestrained Executive powers! Phone numbers are available here.
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Does anyone have an updated list of Democrat senators who have decided to join the filibuster team???
Phones are going crazy, so says a Byrd staffer. Many busy signals, this is great!!
Got through to: Akaka, Baucus, Kohl, Murray, Cantwell, Carper, and Byrd so far.
Keep trying everyone….
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Stand up Americans. Senators still for Alito.
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Text of kerry’s speech is here – http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1800
Someone call some damn republicans. We only need five or six of them.
The democrats are out in 90% or greater force.
So far only ONE republican has voted against Alito.
BLAME THE REPUBLICANS … THEY DID THIS!!!!
Byrd,s Line "ALL CIRCUIT ARE BUSY " How many Mistriss’s Can he Handle ? ? ? . . . .
It’s not over Till The Fat repug Sings !
Wow! Are you guys listening to Kennedy on Cspan (senate floor)? This is the most impassioned speech I have ever heard from him.
RAM, YES YES YES TEDDY VIA THE YOUNG TURKS ! ! !
#7- Ram…He speaks the truth, it’s refreshing to hear the truth. Outstanding speech on C-Span, I agree. God is watching!
#7- Ram…He speaks the truth, it’s refreshing to hear the truth. Outstanding speech on C-Span, I agree. God is watching!
#7- Ram…He speaks the truth, it’s refreshing to hear the truth. Outstanding speech on C-Span, I agree. God is watching!
#7 Ram…He speaks the truth, it’s refreshing to hear the truth. Outstanding, and powerful speech on C-Span. God is watching!
Elijah: I heard you the first time — lol! You either really really want to make the point or you didn’t realize you were posting and kept hitting the post button.
I agree, very refreshing to hear truth!
Sigh. It isn’t so disappointing that we weren’t able to stop the republican machine.
It is devastating that so many dems are now part of that steamroller that has been pushing us down for five years.
How many times will we have to puff ourselves up again to fight the new battles?
Time to Take Names. . . . .
Exactly. Remember the names. Stay mad and get even. All politics are local. Be active where you are. There will be a next time. I hope.
I am outraged!
But then, I’ve been outraged at the gov’t since 1967.
Take it to the streets on March 18th!!
http://www.troopsoutnow.org/
*taking a deep breath*
Okay, so who’s got a list of the names?
Remember, faxes make more of an impression than email or phone call (visual effect), but if possible, email, phone, AND fax to let them know we are pissed and we will not forget. Y’all might want to keep the list of addresses on file for just before the Congress Critters are due to be re-elected – just to send a friendly reminder to tell them why we’re campaigning against them.
And please don’t forget to thank those Senators who deserve it, especially the one Republican (it was only one, right?) who put integrity above party.
It’s not easy standing on your own against this bunch.
Now – time for the next battle – the Patriot Act, due to expire this Friday.
Y’all ready?
I am seeing a movement afoot to turn us back a few years, women, that is. Woman are going to become 3rd class citizens, and the few strides we have made will be overturned by the SC. Woman were considered Goddesses at one time. Why are men so afraid of them…exception, all the posters on this board that I think, think of us as equals. Alito does like woman, fairly certain of that. buscho doesn’t like woman, unless they ‘mother’ him and tell him how wonderful he is (ie: rice, momma, laura). Just my 2 cents. M4
Sigh, guess I’ll call Tom Carper and ask him why acting like battered wife is a smart election strategy. If anybody in Delaware wants some help in booting this guy you can reach me via my e-mail above. I can’t make any guarantees that it won’t be intercepted or read by brown shirt republican operatives, obviously, but what the hell.
Ok, here’s the email.
The republicans voted 54-1 for Alito, and the democrats voted 42-3 against Alito. More or less.
Some are going to go Stockholm Syndrome and get all huffy about those three democrats but be all coo coo about all those 54 republicans.
For the republicans, fifty four do a bad thing, and one does a good thing.
For the democrats, forty two do a good thing, and three do a bad thing.
Now some of the neoCon Stockholmers here will want to go after the three democrats who voted for Alito, and let the 54 republicans go free.
They will envision some big political movement as legends in their own mind, to get rid of these three bad dems.
The 54 republicans are cool tho … they get a holier than thou pass … right?
You bloggers who do that can kiss my ass.
Correction to my post, should read bush, not bushco. Tho I do believe they all hate woman. Doesn’t bushes base believe women should be subserviant to man. Is that why the bush woman don’t have real jobs. Next they will take away our voting rights. When Boxer wanted to speak, they all smirked and chuckled….I am real upset right now, taking this real personal. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. M4
M4, I Think alito doesnt like women I.E. member of cap , Ed Shultz comented on him "ditching" his wife.
He Refued to say R vs W was settled law. I was expecting to hear a Deafening Roar from women ? ? ?
What a bunch of spineless goons the Dems are. Well, fuck them and let’s clear them out with the Repugs this year. Remember that fighting for election reform is the most important thing we can do. They got where they are by stealing elections.
What a bunch of spineless goons the Dems are. Well, fuck them and let’s clear them out with the Repugs this year. Remember that fighting for election reform is the most important thing we can do. They got where they are by stealing elections.
I just read only 25 Dems backed the filibuster. ONLY 25!!!! WTH is going on? I think they are ALL bought and paid for by corruption money and NONE of them give a damn about this country.
I’m mad as hell. There is no Democratic party any longer, it’s obvious. There are hardly any politicians supporting the common citizens, you can count them on one damn hand. How do they sleep at night knowing they sold us all out? Has to be good drugs.
Depression amuck here……will the nightmare ever end??? No, because we’ll never get a fair election to get them (all bad rep and dems) out in time to save us. We’re screwed and now unjust slaves in our own country to a handful of rich bastards! The country that our families and we have worked so damn hard to build for generations, has now been taken from us and given to Halliburton and/or sold to the highest bidders across the globe. What is left here and not sent overseas, has been ALLOWED to be taken over by illegal immigrants, who don’t deserve to reap the benefits from OUR hard work and zillions we’ve payed in taxes. It’s gone now. It’s all so wrong and unbelievable.
Only 25?? We have a lot of replacements coming due, I hope this is the nail in their political coffin. Only 25 tried to back the saving of our courts – and in turn the saving of what rights we have left – and in turn the saving of this country as we have known it. Yikes, I guess I’m angry, I’m sorry for spewing. Just all so sad and hopeless. I can’t believe all this has happened/is happening in front of our eyes and we can’t do anything about it but get frustrated about how wrong it all is – talk about it – and watch.
Check out what I found out about Senator Cantwell – one of the traitors. She’s my senator, and I always thought she was a good one. Until today when she voted for cloture. Then I researched her votes for 2005. Three votes astound me: Roll call vote 338, an amendment calling for a reduction in child poverty. (No, I am not making this up.) She voted against it, along with the republicans! Roll call vote 333 of year 2005 – basically an amendment to reinstate taxes on millionaires. She, along with the Republicans, voted against it. Lastly, Roll call vote 20 of 2005. An amendment to the credit act, trying to prevent crediters from charging more than 30% interest. Again, she voted against it. Insane! I urge you to check out the roll call votes for your senators at http://www.senate.gov
Has Anyone Seen My Tinfoil Hat ? ? ? . . . can’t seem to Find it again . . . . . I Guess I’ll make a new one.
What a sad sad day for all of humanity. All there is left to do is pray to the guy upstairs that he strike down these "kooks" (as Paul likes to call them) before Bush gets to be the new fuhrer. I think there is going to be alot more talk of consciencious objector in the near future. Even with that, that probably won’t fly for too too long. Woe is me…
I have a letter asking for a donation from cantwell sitting on my table…well you know she will hear from me. Cantwell is the one that anwered my letter to her regarding the Medicare Bill with a form letter about Iraq. She is a nothing, a nobody. A waste of a body. No soul. SR said that someone named Mark Wilson is running for her seat, well, time for a change…eh maria…traitor. M4
Dredd, modern republicans and neocons represent the enemy on the field of battle. They are the sole reason we are here in the online world. They are unapologetically bad people, and it is our goal to defeat them in whatever way possible. That fight will never stop, as long as we have Brad Friedman and Jane Hamsher and others. Democrats are our "soldiers" on the field of battle. They represent just one of many possible ways to defeat the republicans; however they are among the most important because they are our first line of defense. If some of our democratic "soldiers" give aid and comfort to the enemy, either by switching sides or by refusing to fight them — even in a losing cause — should we simply give them a pass? Three democrats switched sides and voted for Alito. Many more refused to fight, thus killing the filibuster. Our cause is weakened severely with democrats like that on the battlefield.
The democrats, outnumbered as they are, had a forbidding weapon with which to defeat the republicans, or, at the very least, delay them indefinitely. They simply chose not to use it. We cannot battle the real enemy with any real strength if we don’t rid our own army of the traitors and rejects (including victims of blackmail) and replace them with highly principled soldiers. That’s what the primaries are all about.
HATS OFF !!! To Everyone That Made an Effort 4 the Filibuster.
It was A Blast to see & hear BRAD then get turned on to the YOUNG TURKS. I will Run instead of walk to get Sirius Radio.
This is disgusting and disheartening. The more these things continue to happen, the more I agree with The Vidal quote:
“It makes no difference who you vote for – the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people”.
It may take a long time, but eventually, there will probably be a grass-roots uprising to take the country back from the Corporatists (but, ooohh, do they ever have it now! As Mayer Rothschild said in the 18th century: "Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes her laws"). Power corrupts, and that is EXACTLY what it’s doing, and you and I are on the receiving end of the grestest cluster-fuck of all time.
The Ukraine took to the streets when their election was solen from them. Americans are hypnotized by color TV, or something.
OFF TOPIC message for Merifour re:#19 –
You will notice that the stronger a man really is, and the more confident he is in his masculity, the less threatened he feels by strong women. In fact, I’ve found that most often a strong man PREFERS a strong woman as a partner, and grows quickly bored and impatient with a woman who shows nothing but frailty and weakness.
In the Cherokee tribes, there was a balance of power between men and women. Women had great political influence, and it was the clan mothers who administered justice.
At the first meetings, the Cherokee showed up with men and women from the tribe to broker a treaty, whereas the white councils only had men. It was their first clue that the world of the whites was unbalanced, and that their motives might be selfish.
A society that tries to govern itself without balance cannot survive.
It’s just as true now as it was then.
If Sam Alito could become pregnant, do you think he might support Roe v Wade?????
women’s birth control in 2006:
1. no sex ( this won’t be much fun but you can read that Dostoyevsky that’s been gathering dust. )
2. self sex (use your imagination)
3. sex with other women (in the closet of course, but if you go to church on Sunday and sing off key, no one will ever find out )
4. tubal ligation or hysterectomy (although this will probably be outlawed in the attempt to create female breeding stock)
5. anti-rape gangs made up of very angry women who escort each other everywhere and fight off male attackers with mace and pocket knives.
6. death ( this is a sure fire method that works every time)
I am so sick of it all. I am no longer voting. It won’t matter anyway with diebold and the electoral votes. We now all know that the elections are fixed. There are only a only a few good dems out there who are standing up against this administration and the corruption and crime going on. I say God Bless them. This is supposed to be a country for the people, by the people and of the people, not just for congress and the rich + the elite. People in this country can’t afford health care and we are paying for theirs. I just love how they give themselves raises too along with enough money when they retire that we wouldn’t see in a life time. That is our tax dollars at work for you folks. I’m done with it all. Enough is enough. As far as I’m concerned they are all in it together and it is total B.S. Also, where is it written that only a rich man can become president. That is what it has turned out to be because if you don’t have the money, you don’t stand a chance and that is not right!!!
Missy, Dear,
That is precisely the attitude the neoCons (and neoDems) hope you and all of us will adopt. They would like for you to get discouraged and withdraw from the process. Even if Diebold screws it all up, I beleive we each have a bit more legitimacy when we try to follow the rules and try to make the process work. We have to try to continue to participate, to nag our electeds, try to vote–absentee is perhaps best. They can try to bully us into some sort of submission, but we have something thye do not. We have all of us, glued together by Brad and his blog!
It was a noble effort these last few days on the part of the Patriots (those who uphold the words of the Patria, the Founding Fathers). Founding Patris Thomas Jefferson observed that there would be a revolution every 30 or 40 years. Our last one was around the end of the 1960s, beginning of the 70s. Then, as now, the people stood up to he who would be the unitary executive, the primary ruler of the country. That was Nixon. He got slapped down — hard.
The first time was back in the latter part of the 1700s, of course. Then the Unity Executive was George III. Then, as now, George had a group of mainly aristocrats loyal to him – the Loyalists. This is a better classification system for We the People to adopt — there are Republicans, Conservatives, that are not loyal to the unitary executive George, just as there are Democrats who seem to be loyalists.
Anyway, consider today’s showing by the Patriots to be analogous to the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773. That was over the tax cuts that George III provided to the first corporation of the present time period, the Bristish East India Company, which threatened to put small business merchants out of business. It soon became a much larger issue — and the rest is well known history, and the birth of the American democratic republic.
That is our quest then — win this new revolution and re-establish the democratic Republic. Together, we can do it, Patriots. We did it before — actually quite a few times. We can do it again.
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