A Filibuster will be fantastic political drama, people will pay attention and be educated. The media will be forced to cover it in depth. It would go on for days and build, like Cindy Sheehan camped out in Texas. As the days go by more and more of Alito's lies and evasiveness will be exposed. The Democrats will read from the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on the senate floor. America will know they are saving the Republic. America does not want a king.
It would give us time to explain how Alito will overturn Roe, and then 70% of the people will be on our side. We have the moderate pro-life Republicans.
If the democrats don't put up a fight the media assumes Alito is OK. For the media to report the negative on Alito, the Democrats have to speak loudly - then it becomes a debate, a debate we will win.
Write your diary on why You know we will win a filibuster. Let's get the message out that we will at least block Alito until after the FISA hearings.
Ignoring FISA + Unitary Executive = Filibuster to save the Republic !
We can declare a scandal, we have several to choose from. . A filibuster will give us time to educate the people over the gravity of the situation. It has only been a few days of the public being exposed to the Alito hearings, and so far its not covered much because it's a run of the mill story, a filibuster will be exciting theater. A filibuster will get people interested. "If the normally timid Dems who approved Roberts are blocking him he must be bad" the public will think. When they hear about what he'll do to our country they will be on our side.
We can educate the public about Alitos extremism. We will win a filibuster. Tell your friends. I am asking you to use your daily diary to write how YOU think the democrats will win a filibuster Call Air America, call your senators. Put the word out there, we can block Alito, at least until we have FISA hearings.
The Democrats went in with an open mind. They can come out big now on why he must be blocked. The senators have to know we think we can win, we want them to save America. The people who give them money, volunteer on their campaigns want them to be strong, and bold.
We will win and Bush's next apointment will have to be a moderate (If he gets another)
Jon Stewart will be proud of us, I'm tired of his jokes about how weak and ineffectual the democrats are.
Bush's problems in 2005 started with the democrats being strong on Social Security. Another show of unity in 2006 will start us off on the strong path to November.
Until Alito is blocked assume anyone who says a filibuster is a bad move is a GOP infiltrator, or just plain wrong.
We Can Win This! Tell the world!
UPDATE I had no idea my diary would be so well accepted! I have registered the domain name FilibusterScalito.com - It will be the location for our 30 second filibuster spot competition. It will be like the moveon.org 30 second spot, maybe they'll just play on the internet, who knows maybe TV too. Let's get the good video clips and put some pieces together, we're in for a Public Relations battle that we can win if we show up and fight.
It's pretty simple, Scalito is an extremist right wing ideologue, he tried to present himself at the hearings as a fair minded liberal. So he lied at the hearings.