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Month: January 2006
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Vichy Democrats
There’s a C-Span poll on whether the filibuster will help or hurt the Dems. Vote now!
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The Vote of a Lifetime
The Blog | John Kerry: The Vote Of A Lifetime | The Huffington Post
So let’s get this straight. The time to fight is now – before we make the irreversible decision of confirming a new Supreme Court Justice. When you’re talking about the Supreme Court, you don’t live to fight another day. It’s a zero sum game. Once Judge Alito becomes Justice Alito, there’s no turning back the Senate confirmation vote. We don’t get to ‘take a mulligan’ when choosing a Supreme Court Justice. The direction our country takes for the next thirty years is being set now. Will it matter if we speak up after the Supreme Court has granted the executive the right to use torture, or to eavesdrop without warrants? Will it matter if we speak up only after a woman’s right to privacy has been taken away? Will history record what we say after the courthouse door is slammed in the faces of women, minorities, the elderly, the disabled, and the poor? No. History will record what we say and what we do now.
MONDAY ALITO FILIBUSTER GAMEPLAN: URGE ABSTINENCE!
Last updated: 5:02 Pacific.
“The Woodstock of Politics”
– a caller to The Young Turks radio filibuster for filibuster,
about the grassroots Alito activism.
First, THANK YOU for your hard work over the weekend! As far as I can tell, all key Senators’ D.C. voicemails, and over 90% of the voicemails in their various District offices, were filled up by the end of the weekend. I started hitting random extensions and leaving messages for poor hapless staffers. Every Senator will get the message on Monday morning. Awesome!
For today, I want to back away from the shotgun petitions. It’s frustrating that no one in the Dem leadership will tell us who the “Alito 8” are (the Democrats who aren’t hewing the party line), and we don’t know how well Kerry and Kennedy are doing at moving them around to our side. But we can make an educated guess, and focus on those key Senators. In addition to calling their offices, we’re also going to target their re-election campaign HQs. (A great idea thought up by our friend and fellow-traveler, Bob Fertik!) Finally, we’re going to hammer away at a simple, but politically powerful, message.
Our theme today is: Lead, Follow, Or Get Out of the Way. In political terms, that’s:
EITHER SUPPORT THE FILIBUSTER
OR ABSTAIN FROM THE CLOTURE VOTE,
BUT DON’T GET IN OUR WAY.
The plan is simple:
FIRST, as each office opens (8:30 or 9 am Eastern, later for District offices as you move West), call every office (DC and District) of YOUR OWN Democratic Senators and urge them to support the filibuster by either voting NO on cloture or by ABSTAINING from the cloture vote. Be short and sweet but hit every office listed below. (If they’re not listed here, they’re probably not a problem — but feel free to make sure!) If you can get their staff to commit to a position, please post a comment here.
SECOND, call the “URGE ABSTENTION” Senators identified immediately below and do the same — say that you hope they vote NO on cloture this afternoon but if they can’t, urge them to ABSTAIN from the cloture vote by doing something good that most Republicans would never do, like visiting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital instead. (God knows the Republican leadership would never want to draw any attention to the costs of their war!) Doing so will be just as good as a “no” vote but will give them political cover with their conservative voters back home. Again, call their DC AND District offices. And again, if their staff will commit to a position on cloture and/or abstention, please post a comment here.
THIRD, rinse and repeat. That is, go through the “Urge Abstention” list twice, at least for those offices that don’t take detailed caller info like names and addresses.
That’s it. Simply hammer your own Senators and the key Senators. Report back so I can keep things updated. Then watch C-Span at 4:30 Eastern to see what happens! (And please check back here on Tuesday for an after-action report and a strategy for dealing with the result. Win or lose, we are taking this momentum forward to win back our Party and our Nation.)
from Business Wire via gnn:
Not only are these “detention centers” (a friendly euphemism for prison camp or concentration camp) being set up for detaining (imprisoning) immigrants, but plans are also in the works to use these camps “in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster.”
The official story is that in such a scenario, they would be used to house law enforcement and relief support personnel. What else might these camps be used for?
[Posted By ShiftShapers]
But don’t worry, folks. You just keep worrying about Angelina and Brad. Idiots.
There is still time to filibuster Alito. Some momentum is building within the Democrats.
Your help is reqired.
Links:
Save the Court
U.S. Senate Telephone Directory
Also:
Karmabanque
Dr. Fran
Why Alito Must be Filibustered
Democrats Have the Power To Stop Alito
One Person at a Time
FIRST, click on the poll and auto-fax links here, here, and here to get your message out quickly and easily.
SECOND, call the Democratic National Committee at 202-863-8000 and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee at 202-224-2447. You can also fax the DSCC at 202-969-0354 and email it at [email protected]. Tell them you�re a Democratic activist who is disheartened by the lack of courage in Washington, that you feel like giving up, and that your donations, and the hours of footwork you invest to elect Democrats every other November, are hinging on whether the Alito filibuster succeeds. Tell them you�ll support Nader before you�ll support a Vichy Democrat, and you want to see your damn party show some backbone for a change.
THIRD, call each Senator�s voicemails � first DC, then their main local number, then each branch office number � and leave a voicemail on each one. IF YOU GET A MESSAGE SAYING ANY MAILBOX IS FULL, PLEASE POST A COMMENT HERE WITH DETAILS AND I�LL CROSS THAT NUMBER OFF THE LIST.
FOURTH, when the voicemails are full, start sending emails. Again, if you get a message saying the Senator�s mailbox is full, please post a comment here and I�ll cross that email off the list.
FIFTH, send a fax, especially if you live in that Senator�s state. If you don�t have a fax machine, there are fax websites here and here. You also might have faxing software in your Windows or Mac OS. Again, if you get a message saying the fax is out of paper, post a comment and I�ll cross that email off the list too.
SIXTH, check back here between 8 am and 9 am Monday morning for that day�s game plan. I�ll have updated info on each Senator�s status.
Our goal? By Monday morning, to fill every voicemail, email, and fax machine, in every key Senator�s Washington AND District offices, to overflowing. Then rinse and repeat.
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FINAL: ALITO FILIBUSTER WEEKEND GAMEPLAN
“The Woodstock of Politics”
– a caller to The Young Turks radio filibuster for filibuster,
about the grassroots Alito activism.
Sorry it took so long, but here’s the comprehensive game plan for WEEKEND activism. Please take time tonight and Sunday to fill up Senatorial inboxes.
There is a wonderful thing about calling your Senator on a weekend: HIS OFFICE IS CLOSED AND CANNOT ASK YOU YOUR ADDRESS. Leave a voicemail saying you’re a constituent (it’s true – you’re an American), and want a filibuster. They’ll believe you. Take advantage of it. Emails have the same benefit.
There will be a Monday Morning Game Plan waiting for you when you wake up Monday morning, and everyone should be awake and caffeine-fueled by 8:00 a.m. Eastern time to hammer these guys ALL DAY MONDAY before the 4:30 pm (Eastern) cloture vote.
WHAT MAKES THIS RESOURCE SPECIAL? Easy: it has the LOCAL DISTRICT OFFICE CONTACT INFO FOR EVERY KEY SENATOR. And their emails. And all their fax numbers. So fill up their Washington voicemail inboxes. Then fill up every district office inbox. Then fill up every fax machine. Then send emails to every one. Then sign the petitions and auto-faxes at the bottom of this post. YOU CAN GET YOUR MESSAGE TO ONE SENATOR TEN TIMES INSTEAD OF JUST ONCE. And they won’t know whether you’re one stupidly dogged person, or ten different people. Leverage, folks, leverage.
WHAT TO SAY: When you call, fax, and email, don’t waste time explaining why you don’t like Alito. Just make your points and get off the line so someone else can get through.
What do we say?
1. We are the hardworking Democratic base, and we are sick to our souls of supporting incumbent Democrats who don’t have the courage to stand up and do the right thing even when it’s hard.
2. We want a filibuster EVEN IF THERE AREN’T 41 GUARANTEED VOTES supporting it, and EVEN IF IT MEANS FACING THE NUCLEAR OPTION.
3. If they aren’t willing to vote against cloture, then ASK THEM TO SIMPLY ABSTAIN – preferably, go visit veterans at Walter Reed Hospital at 4:30 Monday when the cloture vote takes place. ABSTAINING IS AS GOOD AS A “NO” VOTE ON CLOTURE.
If they ask for your zip code or address, give it. Some people advise giving false, local info (basically, just riffing on the area code and zip code info for that Senator’s local office); I’ll leave that up to you and your personal decision as to whether it’s immoral or whether it’s a necessary act of civil disobedience. Personally, I’m being honest, emphatic and sincere.
URGENT: Our senators are looking for support especially by phone. If you are a member of MoveOn in particular, PLEASE appeal to them to mobilize their own participants on this.
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YR318 Urine Jar
Who ever heard of a PR campaign to prove that treason and breaking the law is OK?
Also, I empty a urine jar live from the hospital.
lots of listenturd feedback, including a Roger Smalls and The PResdient himself.
Also a very special song from Nicole, my lady in waiting.
George W. Douche is getting ready to open death camps in Guantanamo and Dave Calderbanks says Dutch people don’t care.
Also, I recast a segment of bicyclemark‘s amazing podcast that you need to hear.
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