Alito Cloture Vote (72-25) Final; Judge Alito will be confirmed at 11 am (Eastern) tomorrow

1-30-06

[Torie]

Shocking.

[jwalsh07]

LOL, put this into your algorithm. A lot of callers today saying they are dems who are gonna disafilliate so they can vote for Laffey in the primary under the assumption that he would be the weaker candidate. They are probably right.

[Eastbound]

" . . . all i ask of my representatives in washington is that they fight like a mother cat defending her kittens for our beliefs. "

"Our beliefs." Heh. Exclusive bunch of suckers, aren't they? If their beliefs were in the best interest of restoring our Constitutional Republic instead of shredding our founding documents and leading the unwashed down the primrose path of socialism I would help defend their kitties as well.

It's time for a one-party system for at least a decade. It will take that long to even begin to undo the harm the crazies have done to our system.

[Dashing Dasher]

One of my Liberal Loonie Friends sent me this email today...

Dear Friends and Activists

Over the weekend you generated a tsunami of phone calls supporting a filibuster
of Alito. Today at 4:30 PM EST is the cloture vote on the Alito filibuster, and
with your dedication we will generate two tsunamis.

We will win because we will hit them where they are weakest, their fear of not
getting reelected. In your calls today we will arm you below with specifics
about candidate registration deadlines for primary challenges so THEY know WE
know where their election hopes live.

The bottom line is ANY senator who betrays the will of the people must be
removed from the general election before they have a chance to lose yet another
seat because of their cowardice, and be replaced with a stronger candidate who
WILL fight for the people and win. Regardless of how this turns out, we will
immediately and aggressively move in that direction.

Very simply, in your calls today ask for a commitment that they will either vote
against cloture OR abstain (either is acceptable). If not tell them you will
encourage a challenger to run in their own state and support them any way you
can. Use the details below (like cutoff date for primary candidate filing) to
let them know how very serious you are.

Tell them what state you are actually calling from if they ask. Please
concentrate on your own senators and the ones listed below as the key ones to
sway. All the toll free numbers to the Washington offices we have are
888-355-3588, 888-818-6641, 800-426-8073, 877-851-6427, 866-340-9279 and
866-340-9281. The master list of all direct dial phone and fax numbers for all
senators state by state including all district offices is here:

http://www.nocrony.com/master_senate_phones.txt

UP FOR ELECTION IN 2006

Daniel Akaka [HI], already has two primary challengers, one of whom, Ed Case, is
a former elected state representative and is polling well.

Joe Lieberman [CT], already has a primary challenge looming from Ned Lamont who
has set up an exploratory site, and until 5/16 to make the decision to jump in.
They last thing Joe needs is lots of more encouragement for Lamont.

Bill Nelson [FL], currently has NO primary challenger, with until 5/12 to find
one.

Ben Nelson [NE], currently has NO primary challenger, but if there is a
concerned citizen in Nebraska who wants to run they have until 3/1 to register
as a candidate.

Jeff Bingaman [NM], currently has NO primary challenger but still two weeks
remain until the deadline for filing of 2/14.

Carper [DE], currently has NO primary challenger and all the way until 7/28 to
enter the primary against him.

Kohl [WI], currently has NO primary challenger. We have heard he plans on
skipping the vote, which is the same thing as an abstain. The filing deadline
in Wisconsin is 7/11.

Cantwell [WA], is being already challenged by a strong progressive candidate,
Mark Wilson.

Byrd [WV], has no serious primary challenger we can confirm and the 1/28
deadline has just expired. Perhaps you can appeal to his professed love of the
Constitution which Alito would gut.

Robert Menendez [NJ], was just appointed but has to run himself this year. If
he drops the ball there are challengers waiting in the wings and until 4/10 to
decide.

Lincoln Chafee [RI] is a Republican who professes to be pro-choice and not
feeling very secure right now about her 2006 prospects. Perhaps he is a
possibility for abstention on cloture.

Olympia Snowe [ME] is a another Republican who professes to be pro-choice who
must face the electorate in 2006. She should also be encouraged to abstain on
cloture.

OTHER POSSIBLE SWING SENATORS

Blanche Lambert Lincoln [AR], up for reelection in 2010
Mark Pryor [AR], up for reelection in 2008
Tom Harkin [IA], up for reelection in 2008
Evan Bayh [IN], up for reelection in 2010
Mary Landrieu [LA], up for reelection in 2008
Susan Collins [ME], up for reelection in 2008
Carl Levin [MI], up for reelection in 2008
Max Baucus [MT], up for reelection in 2008
Frank Lautenberg [NJ], up for reelection in 2008
Tim Johnson [SD], up for reelection in 2008
Patty Murray [WA], up for reelection in 2010

Just tell them that failure to support this filibuster will be a deal breaker as
Alito starts to cast the votes that his reactionary supporters absolutely know
he will.

If you can't get through any other way, or even if you can, also submit these
two action pages too:

http://www.millionphonemarch.com/nuke_option.php

http://www.millionphonemarch.com/reid.php

Let us be able to look back and say we did everything we could have done to win
this victory in spite of the corrupt media pundits who are working overtime to
tell us what we cannot do. We are proving them wrong day by day. At the very
worst we will establish once and for all who we can never trust with the public
office ever again.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be
ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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[GermanBusiness]

I just spent 2 hours reading the KOS threads on Alito. The sense of "us vs them" is profound. I tried to keep an open mind to see if I would be convinced by them if I didn't know anything about politics. But they rarely said anything.

Except to turn me off.

One guy really upset me when I saw the following in his tale of how he became a Kossack dealt with the defining moment of his life:

"When I saw the reaction to 9-11, I knew I was dealing with a creepy kind of evil."

Nothing about 9-11 itself, just "the reaction to it" changed his life.

And yet, I could not logon to DailyKOS and tell him that this theme is exactly what is deep-sixing his political party. My post wouldn't last undeleted for 1 minute over there.

[Torie]

Ya, probably. It is odd that folks here seem to prefer a Dem in RI to Chaffee. That is a mistake. Chaffee has helped out on a lot of votes.

[Darkwolf377]

Hang on, I'm on the way once I finish dinner.

[Darkwolf377]

If you've read the book, you know that ol' Tom's great evil was -- gasp -- FORGIVENESS! Yeah, that's right, Uncle Tom gets the bad rap because he had the unfettered timerity to forgive his opressor and refuse to let anyone speak evil against him.

I recognize the book's greatness as a historical item, but don't care for it much. And frankly, you're misreading it--sure, he forgave--but SHOULD he have?

Don't know about you, but I'm not about to refuse to let anyone speak evil against Al Qaeda.

The point is that people like Tom pay attention to the little niceties and their oppressors take advantage of that.

I prefer the fighters.

[jwalsh07]

Chaffe crossed the line. He voted for Ginsburg in deference to Clinton. He votes against Alito to spite Bush who he didn't vote for in the last Presidential election. He says he can't vote for Alito because he, Chaffee, favors the Bill of Rights. His father John Chaffee votes to confirm Alito to the lower court. You think Lincoln knows more about the BOR's than his father? I don't.

And one more thing, John Chaffee voted for Clarence Thomas. No, this is one of those times I would cut my nose off to spite my face. I can't stand that unctuous putz.

[RandallFlagg]

LOL!! No problem. Let me give you the latest:

I posted this over there:
Alito on the Way to Confirmation (72-25) vote final
http://www.hlcomic.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=452
This afternoon at 4:14 PM

It's been over three hours and not one reply. HOWEVER, there's been 250 views of it.

I'm guessing that they're really REALLY trying to ignore me, hoping I'll go away. So, just a few minutes ago, I posted a bunch of great pics I found here at FR about the vote. At the bottom of the edit, I posted the, "DEAN UNDER FIRE FROM PARTY DEMS; NEARLY ALL CASH SPENT" link from Drudge:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567934/posts

THAT'LL drive 'em nuts.

[Sally'sConcerns]

If nobody's worried, why post their junk?

I'm not in the least bit worried about the DUmmies. I visit DU because it's fun to read some of the conspiracy theories, it's fun to play around in their lounge area because I find some of their goof off threads interesting, they have interesting recipes in another section and finally I never knew there were seemingly 'normal' people who had some of the belief systems they do.

I don't troll over there because I don't want them being trollish over here. One last thing is some of those people are older hippies and I can read their posts and be darned grateful I only toyed with the hippy movement for a very short time. I can be extremely grateful to my parents for providing me with a good conservative foundation.

I regret you have such an issue with posters who have fun with DU.

[Torie]

Well, RI is RI. Vote for the most troglodytic you can find with a reasonable shot at getting elected, would seem the road to take, absent just being the punishment mode. Chaffee might just be trying to get elected, giving a cloture vote for the primary, and a no vote on the up or down for the general election. By the way, if one is pro choice and wants to keep Roe, and the progeny of Roe, and isn't bothered with Robe deus ex machinas, voting no on Alito is a reasonable and principled position. A fair conclusion is that the care and feeding of the Roe matrix is not job one for Alito. That is why we both like him in part. :)

[Dashing Dasher]

Yep...

Don't use any of that logic stuff over there!

Yikes.

[Slings and Arrows]

I'll contain my disappointment. ;^)

[Hi Heels]

Gotta bite. What the heck is a karmic hug?

[RandallFlagg]

LOL! Nice reply over there. Let's see if any of them take the bait...

[IonInsights]

It's the vote to have a vote to have a vote to have a vote.

Just kidding.

[meema]

Thanks GB.
I read quite a bit of KOS a while ago, but this looks even better!

[meema]

It has been a wonderful, joyous afternoon!

[ThreeYearLurker]

Time to buy stock in Chivas!