Saturday, January 28, 2006
Filibuster!
Did not Harriet Meiers deserve an Up-Or-Down Vote? Obviously not: To the fanatics financing the modern-day GOP, she didn't.0 comments
This test for the Senate, of affirming or denying a Supreme Courtship to Samuel Alito, ranks in our country's history with Bunker Hill, Harper's Ferry and D-Day—as singular moments, where the very underpinnings of our nation turned. Irrevocably.
Documents show Samuel Alito has lied to Congress each time he has come up for confirmation at every level in his governmental career—giving the Senate positive, upbeat sound-bite answers, then doing the callous opposite immediately upon confirmation. It is no simple oversight if a Senator votes to affirm. There will be no feigning shock. The track record is long and well documented. Every Senator is clear about Sam Alito being Roy Cohn for 2006.
Each Senator who votes to affirm Sam Alito goes to his or her grave knowing they put holding onto their job and their personal wealth and privilege above the great and glorious country they've sworn to serve and protect ("...so help me, God"—as a reminder for the religious among us).
Above the desperate needs of the American people at a time of peril to the core of our republic.
Above the trust the American people placed in them in sending them to Washington in the first place.
Just as Americans learned through bitter experience to believe no statement emanating from the George W. Bush White House, so are we at a point of deciding whether any U.S. Senator is trustworthy, or simply trustless. Especially with so much money and power on the table, ready to be used against us, the average hard-working, clean-living American.
This is a battle for the very souls of 100 U.S. Senators. And their Creator—who taught us clearly that "all men are created equal"—will sit in judgement of those who besmirch a sacred trust.
Update:
One person who comes out of this with a buffed glow is, surprisingly, John Kerry. He has to know that if this filibuster fails, he will be smeared ceaselessly by the gonad-impaired Senator JoeMentums (D-CT) and the Senator Joe Visa's (D-DE) of his own party, and will be used for target practice by all those Church of the Holy Greed and Avarice whacks out there.
While perhaps foolhardy, it certainly is a courageous stand. Very impressive; didn't think he had it in him. (This coming from someone who, although we voted for Kerry as the Anybody-But-Bush candidate, had recently soured on him fully.) Also courageous on this was Ted Kennedy, who was the first to stand up for Kerry on this, and stands squarely beside him. We salute the other U.S. Senators who've found the spine they'd misplaced on that last golf trip to Scotland. and have signed onto the filibuster. The biggest disappointment so far? Robert Byrd, who obviously had that storied copy of the Constitution he brags about carrying with him always, stolen from his pocket. Perhaps he's attained the age where it's difficult to remember its passages without having it in his hand to refer to.
It can be safely assumed that Samuel Alito will become a major cog of the machinery facilitating the destruction of the United States of America—as both a centuries-old political concept and as a people, living day-to-day lives, longing to be free and secure.
On 9/11, Osama bin Laden's minions killed 3,000 individual neighbors of ours, here in NYC and in D.C. and Pennsylvania.
Since then, this fanaticized GOP has worked tirelessly to callously use these murders to kill the very soul of our country—infinitely more destructive and damning than the actions of 19 murderers.
At this juncture of our country's storied history, a vote for Sam Alito is simply an act of treason.
Since the early 2000 primaries, researchers have been hard-pressed to find examples of a member of the Bush administration caught in the act of telling the truth. On any issue. Whatsoever. Playing semantics is the closest we ever get. But never a simple true statement.
This is no time for the pleasant delusion that this newly corrupted GOP has the interests of the American people at heart. These people eat their young.
The day Alito is sworn in begins the full, active process of shifting our American Nation into a "Homeland" of the powerful and the powerless. Since the 1700s, our courts have been the refuge of every David without a sling, in his struggles against Goliath.
A proven Goliath fan, Alito's judicial record is replete with rulings that protect the rights of the Big Guy over the Little Guy; the Government over the Citizen; the Multinational Conglomerate over the Consumer, the Employee and the Neighborhood; the Man over the Woman; the Rich over the Barely-Getting-By; the White Guy over the Not-White-Guy; and the President over Everybody (including Congress, the Courts, the Law and, especially, you).
Forget taking your fight "all the way to the Supreme Court!" Save your breath. And your money. You'll no longer have any chance; from now on, you'll always lose. Unless you're a Halliburton or a Monsanto. Or some other hefty campaign contributor.
On the day Alito is sworn in, plans begin to: "Impeach Sam Alito," which, hopefully over time, will galvanize people on the left, much as the "Impeach Earl Warren" campaign did for the right.
But have not doubt: this is a singular moment in American History.
What do we each do? We each need to write our own chapter in JFK's Profiles In Courage.
Start by calling and writing your Senators!
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