If Kerry was serious about mounting a filibuster, why didn't he get Reid on board? Why did he wait until he was in Switzerland to announce it? If you think Alito's extreme enough to filibuster, why not get the ball rolling earlier in the week? ... If this is the best defense we've got against the GOP, then we're probably better off voting against every Democratic incumbent in the primaries and crossing our fingers. At this point, I'd prefer the uncertainty of a novice Democrat to the well-trained subservience of the complacent beltway minority.
We shouldn't have to call our Senators to tell them how bad Alito is. If they don't already know, then they need to seek another line of work.
It's been bothering me this whole time--we've been calling and emailing for ages, and only now at the 11th hour, Senators step up? Why did Reid and others already talk against it? Why step up now after so many Senators had already gone on record as opposing a filibuster? Why didn't anyone step up as soon as the hearings ended? If it's conviction, then it wouldn't matter how the media spun it or what the GOP said, no? And that
"filibuster for a day" thing is also bothering me immensely.
I've called my Senators repeatedly, and emailed and faxed them and all others on the lists since before the hearings--I know many hundreds of thousands of us have, but only now do any step up? Organizations like NOW and Civil Rights groups also called for a filibuster a while ago. I know we're not supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this smells like politics as usual. I really hope i'm proven wrong, but my life under a GOP majority Supreme Court will permanently relegate me to second-class status, and millions of others, not to mention giving the executive branch a pass on all their illegal and unConstitutional misdeeds.