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The Vote of a Lifetime by John Kerry
Many people seem curious or even skeptical why United States Senators believe it's so important to take a stand against the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court -- why we're willing to take on a fight that conventional wisdom suggests we will lose.
The reality is simple. We care about the future of our country.
We care about the millions of Americans who expect Congress to stand up and fight for their rights and their freedoms, and we also know that the Supreme Court, again and again, is the battlefield on which those rights and freedoms are decided.
Read the rest here.
He's right.
Many people seem curious or even skeptical why United States Senators believe it's so important to take a stand against the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court -- why we're willing to take on a fight that conventional wisdom suggests we will lose.
The reality is simple. We care about the future of our country.
We care about the millions of Americans who expect Congress to stand up and fight for their rights and their freedoms, and we also know that the Supreme Court, again and again, is the battlefield on which those rights and freedoms are decided.
Read the rest here.
He's right.
posted by benny06 at
Monday, January 30, 2006
3 Comments:
He's right, but his party leadership has been remarkably ineffective in this whole matter. It's bringing me to the verge of looking at alternatives to the Democrats.
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Chancelucky, at 3:40 PM
JCDEM on the DU wrote a good post concerning the reasons why the Dems couldn't support a fillibuster:
1. Bush is at a 38% approval rating and dropping
2. The Republican party is awash in scandal and Americans' respect for them is at an all time low.
3. Several polls showed that a majority of Americans didn't like Alito
4. Alito is pro life, and 66% of Americans are pro choice
5. A filibuster would have embarrassed this enormously popular President just before his state of the Union speech. Now he can gloat.
6. The Dems don't want to repeat a fiasco like the 2000 Supreme Court decision handing the election to Bush. Now, instead of a 5-4 vote, any similar vote would easily be 6-3.
7. The Dems were afraid to upset their base -- women, labor unions, and all those too poor to stand up to the corporations.
8. The Dems thought that if they didn't play fair, the Republicans too might start resorting to dirty politics, which they have never done before.
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benny06, at 2:12 AM
lol, that's really funny. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
fwiw, if Obama and the Governor of Virginia are the party's idea of the next generation of charismatic leaders, I'm not real confident.
By
Chancelucky, at 11:34 PM
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