YESSSSS!!!
Posted on 05/22/2005 4:45:39 PM PDT by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
Dear MoveOn member,
This is it — they've pulled the trigger.
On Tuesday May 24th, the Senate will vote on a motion to end debate on judicial nominations, and when that motion fails Senator Bill Frist will launch the "nuclear option" — an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to break the rules of the Senate and seize absolute control over lifetime appointments to the highest courts in the land. The vote is going to be incredibly close, and there are as many as 6 votes still up in the air — more than enough to win. We must act now.
We've launched an emergency petition and, starting Monday, we'll deliver your signatures and comments to the Senate floor every three hours until the vote is complete. As the debate rages on, Senators fighting to preserve our independent courts will read your statements from the floor of congress. And every senator, every 3 hours, will receive thousands of pages from their constituents demanding that they stand up and do the right thing.
We have less than 72 hours to win this vote and save our courts. Please sign today.
http://www.moveonpac.org/nuclear?id=5554-3453262-.YMaMBGSTw8CR.UFuk0p3w&t=3
If you care about the minimum wage — and you don't want judges ruling it unconstitutional — now's the time to act.
If you care about environmental laws — and you don't want judges striking them down — now's the time to act.
If you care about your right to privacy — and you don't want the government telling your family how to live, worship, or even how to die — now's the time to act.
As the fight escalates in Congress, thousands of MoveOn members will gather outside of Senate offices and courthouses in every state in the country, staging round the clock "Citizens' Filibusters to Stop the Right Wing Power Grab." We'll also deliver your comments to all the gatherings in your state, so your words will combine with thousands of others to show the public, the media, and our representatives in Washington that we will not give up the fight for our democracy.
It's a rare moment when a vote of such importance is actually too close to call with only hours left and a real chance to win - please sign the petition and add your voice right now:
http://www.moveonpac.org/nuclear?id=5554-3453262-.YMaMBGSTw8CR.UFuk0p3w&t=4
Here's a brief summary of what's at stake.
Bill Frist, George Bush and the far wing of the Republican party are desperate to seize absolute control over all three branches of our government. For 200 years, the rules of the Senate have blocked one party from taking complete control, because the minority has always had the right to filibuster — to extend debate and delay a vote — when their basic rights were in danger. For centuries this has kept the courts fair by ensuring that judges receive at least some support from both sides of the aisle before they are confirmed for life.
Now Senator Frist wants to break the rules of the Senate and eliminate the filibuster, ending the requirement for broad support and handing absolute control over the courts to one party for the first time in our nation's history. To begin, he'll force a handful of extremists onto the powerful U.S. Courts of Appeals. But the real targets are the up to four nominations to the Supreme Court likely to come up during Bush's second term — enough seats to permanently shift the majority and strike down decades of progress on labor rights, environmental protection, privacy rights, and civil rights.
When Frist first announced his plan, it seemed like it was only a matter of time. After all, the Republicans have 55 votes in the Senate, and Frist only needs 50. But today, with 72 hours left, the vote is still too close to call. Thanks to the amazing work of MoveOn members, our partner groups, the Democratic leadership, and basic common sense three Republicans have publicly denounced Frist's plan — Sens. John McCain (AZ), Olympia Snowe (ME), and Lincoln Chafee (RO). We need just three more to win and as many as six are still on the fence, including Sens. Arlen Specter (PA), Chuck Hagel (NE), John Warner (VA), and Susan Collins (ME).
We have one last chance to raise our voice, to help our allies stand strong and convince reasonable Republicans to step back from the brink. The courts we have for decades — and the rights they protect or the rights they strike down — may well be determined by what we do now.
Please sign today.
http://www.moveonpac.org/nuclear?id=5554-3453262-.YMaMBGSTw8CR.UFuk0p3w&t=5
Thank you for all that you do,
–Ben, Marika, Matt, Justin and the MoveOn PAC Team Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
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I believe the past week is evidence that the majority of the Republican party has the courage to finally stand up to the Democrats on this issue. The majority have impressed me.
The problem we have are a handful of RINO's we need to break.
And if that means voting those RINO's out of office for betraying us, so be it.
If they believe moveon.org is their continguency, than they can appeal to moveon.org for votes come their next election.
Actually, that's already been decided. We call them ELECTIONS.
Liberals didn't want elections in Iraq and they don't want to validate the ones held in the U.S.
And that's where their arrogance comes in. Remember John Kerry during a fundraiser when Whoppe Goldberg trashed the President by using expletives and talkng about her private parts.? Not only did Lurch not try and separate himself from her disgusting remarks, he went on to say '' The heart and soul of America feels the way we do''! The nerve!I cannot stand these liberals!
Frist will call a vote if the Democrats obstruct no matter what the RINO's do, of that I have no doubt.
We need to continue flooding the offices of the RINO's, though, to get it through their thick skulls this will not be forgiven. Apparently they live in their own little world, as with McCain, where they think they have the support of conservatives and that it won't harm them at all.
Others, like Graham, seem to believe because they have an "R" by their name and the state is conservative..that their jobs are safe because we'd never elect a Democrat. Well, I would hope it wouldn't come to that. I'd first mount a challenge in a primary. But if necessary, I would vote Democrat to cleanse the Party of the Maverick spirit.
My senators (MI) are comrades Levin and Stabenow.....They are so socialist that they don't even need to be on the Moveon.org ping list.......Only death via natural or otherwise is going to get Levin out of the senate. He is so firmly entrenched and enamored with his own self-importance that he will become the next Strom Thurmond.....
If you care about environmental laws — and you don't want judges striking them down — now's the time to act.
Amazing, LOL!!!
Right there in there "emergency" letter, the simple scumbags of MoveOn admit that they want "minimum wage" and "environmental laws" legislated FROM THE BENCH by liberal activist judges.
"Clueless" doesn't begin to describe these vermin....
"With all due respect, you fall into the trap of thinking that our enemy is just misguided, rather than evil."
I think some are misguided, some are evil and some are both.
"I think some are misguided, some are evil and some are both."
...and you are right. The leadership is clearly evil, while the rank and file does have some of both (with my mother being in the misguided category).
YESSSSS!!!
"Frist will call a vote if the Democrats obstruct no matter what the RINO's do, of that I have no doubt." If Warner, McStain, Graham, and the spineless Republican moderates have their way, Frist wouldn't dare pull a trigger on a weapon that would falter. This is a very dangerous time for the Republicans what with so many suicidal moderate Pubbies warming seats in the Senate.
Sens. Arlen Specter (PA), Chuck Hagel (NE), John Warner (VA), Sens. John McCain (AZ), Olympia Snowe (ME), Lincoln Chafee and Susan Collins (ME). I've often wondered what it feels like to be born with a fence post jammed between your cheeks.
" #1 They nominated a war protester to run for president when the country was looking for a strong war time president."
He did nearly win (60,000 votes switched in Ohio) - and it would have been ingenious if he did win.
" #2 They selected a nut like Howard Dean to run there party. He's the gift that keeps on giving."
You have a point there.
It does require a certain amount of discretion if you are going to vote for a Democrat. My agenda is to advance conservatism, but allowing these mavericks to run the Party puts a kink in that agenda. I wish McCain's re-election was in '06, so we could make the proper example of him. Take out the head and the rest would be scattered. Unfortunately his was last year. This is why I've been hoping someone would challenge Hagel or DeWine as a default. Graham if he keeps it up, though not certain if his race is in '06 or '08.
My preference is to kick them out in the primaries. However, I will admit upfront I want Chafee to lose. He doesn't support tax cuts. He doesn't support the war. He doesn't support the 'Constitutional Option'. He stated he would not vote for this President. And he's been weak on Bolton, only going forward because he needs to do something on our behalf to warrant funding for his re-election. IMO, it's time to cut him loose. We're essentially funding the race of a Democrat. Let the DNC spend the funds for the seat and divert the funds to a race where we'll get something more out of the investment.
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