OK KOSSACKS, and ANY dems you know, LISTEN UP. Before I begin this call, ask yourselevs: HAS ++any++ lame duck congress in ANYONES memory, EVER taken on issues during the remainder of their terms?
DAILY there are items posted here that previously would have SIMPLY BEEN UNACCEPTABLE, AFTER the new congress took their seats, AND NOT EVEN THINKABLE UNDER A LAME DUCK congress waiting out it's term.
Here goes....
A REAL call to action. Contact your Dem Senators, DEM congressmen, and Dem leaders. HELL, many of the NEOCONS have quietly expressed outrage at the new policies being rammed through. If they want to join, welcome them too.
IT IS PAST TIME FOR THE REAL "NUCLEAR" option.
For tomorrow morning, NOTHING MOVES IN THE SENATE, NOT EVEN A VOTE TO RECESS. No appropriations bills, no continuing resolutions, no rules changes, procedural votes, IF IT IS A VOTE, it simply DOES NOT HAPPEN. IF one bill gets through, WE FAILED. MAKE THE TRAIN WREAK HAPPEN, but while WE still have control.
In the house, the same thing. We don't have the filibuster, or the defacto tie, but there are all SORTS of ways to tie the house in knots, and NOTHING reaches the president if the senate does not pass it.
Things will slip through, mostly internal rules changes that we simply have no ability to stop, but we SIMPLY DO NOT VOTE. NO BILL is important enough, and if we allow one through, they will cram what they want into it anyway.
This is the ALAMO folks, these DEMS will go down fighting, but they MIGHT make the rest of the country stand up and join the fight.
We don't fight, we have ALREADY LOST for YEARS to come, MAYBE forever. We fight, but not hard enough to win, we just look like sore losers and SEAL our fate.
If you EVER want to see the Democrats as anything but a straw man for the Rethugs to strike down over and over again. GROW A SET OF BALLS AND GET BACK IN THE GAME.
Specter, Chaffee, Snow, and even some of the idealistic ones out in the far right will NEVER have common cause with us the way they do for the next six weeks or so.
I am NOT saying give the keys to them, or even ask directions, simply point out that ANY restraints on the part of THEIR eneimies are being dismantled, and the ONLY WAY TO PREVENT that is to fight back, NOW, before it is too late.
Shut it down. Shut it ALL down. IT IS AS MUCH SYMBOLISM AND PERCEPTION, but every day lessons our ability to hit back, even in this capacity. We will NEVER regain anything with out a fight, and rebuilding from a damaged core will only be harder. NOW is the time.
New talking points, the Senate is SO out of control that NOTHING GOOD can come out of it. NOTHING MOVES.
Say it with me...
NOTHING MOVES
NOTHING MOVES
NOTHING MOVES!!!!!!!!!