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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-19-05 09:31 PM
Original message "If we don't fight this, I'm Leaving the Party!!!"
My response: Good. Leave. You're a pain in the ass.
This guy is filibuster proof, pure and simple, and alienating the vast majority of Americans with a drawn out filibuster will do much more damage to the Democratic Party (and to abortion rights) than alienating the party purists, who will come moping back here in 2006 anyway.
There should be reasonable hearings with aggressive questioning, especially on women's rights. The Democrats should promote a women's rights campaign to coordinate with these hearings, just to get people's radar up. If anything ugly comes out, a filibuster should be discussed then. As it stands, however, the guy looks acceptable, and starting off swinging is just plain stupid. You wanna leave? Leave. I, for one, will be happy to see some of the dogmatists depart.

How'd this poster get onto the thread? Maybe an evangelistic effort is in order; Alcibiades might be amenable to the sweet light of reason.

" There should be reasonable hearings with aggressive questioning, especially on women's rights. The Democrats should promote a women's rights campaign to coordinate with these hearings, just to get people's radar up. If anything ugly comes out, a filibuster should be discussed then."

Wow! One democrat who makes a little sense. He at least wants to talk about issues instead of scandale after scandale.

I would rather see the democrats not fight Roberts and return to fight Rove. So far, Rove has kicked the daylights out of the libs, and I don't expect him to rollover anytime soon.

Holtz
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Beware anyone named Alcibiades!

The original Alcibiades of Classical Greece was a dangerous, treasonous, lecherous, decadant dilettante with delusions of grandeur. A blasphemer of the Gods, he switched sides at least 3 times during the Pelopponesian War, ultimately embracing the Dreaded and Wicked Persians.

Anyone who chooses that name knows all of this and should be watched carefully...