Maybe we could get someone to dress up like a cadaver and hold that sign and picket Teddy at Capitol Hill.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_go_co/alito_5
Kennedy Leads Final Effort to Block Alito
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Liberal Democrats waged an eleventh-hour attempt Monday to block
Samuel Alito's Supreme Court confirmation, arguing that he would tilt the high court further to the right.
GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee (news, bio, voting record) of Rhode Island also announced that he would vote against Alito's confirmation. Chafee, a self-described "pro-choice, pro-environment, pro-Bill of Rights Republican," is the only member of the Republican Party so far to announce that he will vote against the conservative judge.
Chafee refused to support the Democrats' filibuster attempt, however. "How are we going to get anything done if we can't work together?" Chafee asked.
But liberal Democrats say that Alito — a former federal prosecutor and conservative lawyer for the Reagan administration — would put individual rights and liberties in danger.
"I think he is the wrong judge at the wrong time in the wrong place," said Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., a longtime liberal stalwart. "I do not believe he is going to be part of the whole movement of the continued march towards progress in this country."
Added Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, the chamber's lone independent: "The addition of Judge Alito would unacceptably shift the balance of the court on many critical issues facing our country."
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