FILIBUSTER!!!!

The confirmation of Alito will mark the start of an era in which the settled law regarding the medical privacy of women is chipped away at, the executive branch gains power and upsets the checks and balances necessary for this government to work, and a continuation of the growth of strength of big business. We know this because O'Conner was the deciding vote on a large majority of cases before the court and We know Alito's record.
We have also seen Alito lie and skirt the truth...and he clearly wont state that Roe V. Wade is settled law.
I urge you to call and write to your senators and the senators linked below and tell them to support Kerry and Kennedy in their filibuster of Alito.
Let the chips fall where they may...at some point we have to stand up and start fighting for our country and our constitution. This administration is aggressively moving against the checks and balances of our system, the privacy and rights that the constitution affords us, and the settled law of the land regarding the rights of women. Make no mistake that a pro big-business supreme court will ensure the continuation of super untaxed compensation packages for CEO's while workers lose their jobs, Outsourcing of jobs that are replaced by jobs at McDonalds if they are replaced at all, the continued deregulation of not only environmental controls, but also of fair practices in business.
Go to www.nocrony.com to find your senator's Fax, phone, and email addresses. Calls are probably best at this point and they have kids taking the information....emails to back this up are also good.
Your voice counts in this battle!

It is also important to contact these Senators no matter where you are from:
: http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?page_id=69
…and encourage them to support the filibuster.
All of these senators work for us...and they all took an oath to protect the Constitution. Its time that these politicians began to understand that they represent the American people and that this Alito nomination not only doesn’t represent the mainstream of America, but it doesn’t even represent the conservatives of America. This nomination represents a small fringe element...and our highest court should not be influenced by such a small element when it serves all of the people! We have a fairly conservative court as it is. Lets not allow it to go over the edge!

When the gang last made a deal on the filibuster they said that they would only use it in the case of an emergency. Well, if this isn't an emergency then what is? The nuclear option be damned, someone has to stand up and say NO MORE!

If we don’t start taking action now we will have no one to blame for the decline of this country but ourselves.

Thanks for your action,

Melina




“On some positions…cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediencey asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it Popular?’ But, Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 1968
California Democratic Council