One of the most heard reasons given by senators for not supporting a filibuster on Monday is that the Republicans will then retaliate with the "nuclear option."
That's ridiculous. Not that the Republicans would respond that way; it's likely they would. But so what? If the Democratic senators refuse to act in fear of this option, then in effect the nuclear option has already been enacted.
The other reason I've heard the most out of Democratic senators for not supporting a filibuster is that they're afraid it will hurt them in the 2006 elections. Boy have they gotten it wrong this time. I, and many others I have talked to or heard from, will react in exactly the opposite fashion. In the fall elections, I will support those who support a filibuster on the Alito nomination. I will have to think long and hard before voting for anyone who opposes a filibuster.
I want elected officials who actually represent me. Senators who stand up for me. I don't care if it's basically a moot point because the other side has the votes for the confirmation. That doesn't matter, that's not the point.
The point is that I want to be heard. I want my senators to stand up for me. At this point, that can only happen via a filibuster.
Also, I resent that the Senate has allowed the president (aka King George... get used to it, Alito will likely actually crown the man) to set the confirmation day. GW wanted this whole business over before 2006 even started. He didn't get that. And he wasn't happy about it. Now he wants to be able to announce the confirmation in his State of the Union address. (He has nothing else positive to say. He wants to at least be able to say that he's gotten two men onto the Supreme Court.) And it looks as though the Senate Republicans have completely buckled to him and are delivering this nomination to him just in time.
How sweet.
Oh wait, I said buckled when what I meant was bent over.
Get ready folks, life as you know is about to change. Forget personal freedoms. Forget a right to privacy. That's all about to go down the drain.
It's really quite amazing. The Republicans are supposed to be against big government. Yet this current Republican-led government we're suffering through is the biggest government our country has seen in recent memory. This anti-big government party that currently rules over all of us is about to put a justice on the Supreme Court who has the potential to completely change the world as we know it.
It's amazing that these "small government people" care so much about who you sleep with, and how, how you worship, who you marry. It's simply astounding to me that a bunch of white men in Washington care so much about our sex lives, our personal lives, our private lives.
Band together my friends, and be strong, eventually the Democrats will be back in power.
Even if it is by default because so many of the Republicans are in jail...
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