Thanks to BradBlog, we can see Eminem’s hard-hitting streaming Flash video. (I had to install the latest version of Flash, but it was easy.)
Update [2006-1-27 19:56:45 by susanhu]: Sam Seder on Air America Radio heard that Salazar and Ben Nelson are taking polls on the NUMBER of calls and faxes they are getting:
Ben Nelson- D/NE : (202) 224-6551 (site)
Ken Salazar- D/CO : (202) 224-5852 (site)
Here’s ONE PAGE that lists all the senators, D.C. phone numbers , Web sites + e-mail links.
Update [2006-1-27 20:23:20 by susanhu]: ManEegee reports that Nelson’s voicemail box is full so he suggests you FAX Nelson via www.tpc.int. He also urges you to ask Akaka (D-HI) to reconsider his previous remarks and join his fellow Democrats for the filibuster – (202) 224-6361
If you have a fax machine: Janet Strange has put up a diary with ALL the fax numbers.
Tampopo has a great idea:
Contact the money folks through the weekend:
the DNC
the DSCC
the DLCMy message: Senate Democrats MUST FILIBUSTER the Alito vote – it is time to TAKE A STAND – I will NOT GIVE my money, time, or energy to any senate Democrat who does not FILIBUSTER!
Update [2006-1-27 21:46:51 by susanhu]: Just in from Democrats.com: WE CAN STOP ALITO THIS WEEKEND (full text below the fold).
Update [2006-1-27 22:4:6 by susanhu]: mlk19569 has another great idea: “One other tactic is to ask wavering Senators to abstain from voting for cloture, rather than voting no. Frist needs 60 votes to end debate; if we get a mix of 41 nos and abstentions, we are in good shape.”
I love this … I’ve always felt badly I was too young to fight in the Revolutionary War! 🙂
WE CAN STOP ALITO THIS WEEKEND
The last two days have been amazing.
Early Thursday afternoon, we broke the news that Senator John Kerry would lead a filibuster against Judge Sam Alito if he could get 41 Senators to sustain the filibuster. Three hours later, CNN confirmed our story.
Naturally, the White House freaked out and told Senator Bill Frist to schedule a cloture vote as quickly as possible – Monday at 4:30 p.m. – to prevent Democrats from uniting behind Kerry.
Then the White House called its media whores at the NY Times (David Kirkpatrick), AP (Jesse Holland), Pentagon Post (Charles Babington), CNN (Miles O’Brien), and MSNBC (Chris Matthews) and told them to trash John Kerry for daring to challenge the will of Emperor Bush, and to repeat over and over that Democrats did not have enough votes to stop Alito.
But even as Karl Rove was doing his dirty work, progressive activists like you were calling your Senators urging them to support John Kerry’s filibuster.
And one by one, Democratic Senators began to turn around.
http://democrats.com/alito-48
At the start of the day, only Dick Durbin and Debbie Stabenow supported Kerry and Kennedy. Just before noon, Hillary Clinton’s office called to say she supported us. Then Harry Reid came on board, along with Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold, Ron Wyden, Chris Dodd, and (I think) Chuck Schumer.
Most importantly, we even picked up Dianne Feinstein, who just yesterday said she opposed a filibuster.
That’s 12 votes for a filibuster – and exactly 12 more votes than we had two days ago!
I believe we really can stop Alito by Monday at 4:30 p.m. – but here’s what we must do.
1. Ignore the media whores. Karl Rove is feeding them lies as he always does, and they are swallowing those lies as they always do. The only media that matters is the media we are creating right here by calling each Senator and getting a YES or NO statement from them.
2. Wake up the sleeping bloggers. Where are the biggest blogs, including DailyKos.com, TalkingPointsMemo.com, CrooksandLiars.com, and AmericaBlog.com? (Complaining about how Democrats played last week won’t cut it -we’re in the Super Bowl and we can win this damn game if we get Democrats to play their best game on Monday – and hopefully the rest of this coming week.) Thanks to Agonist, BobGeiger, The Democratic Daily, DemocraticUnderground, Eschaton, Firedoglake, MakeThemAccountable, Mark Crispin Miller, PoliticalWire, Vichy Democrats and everyone else who’s plugging this.
3. Keep calling the Senators who are undecided or opposed to a filibuster. You can call their DC office all weekend and leave polite but firm voicemails urging the Senators to support Kerry’s filibuster. When offices open on Monday 9 a.m. ET, make another round of calls. Let’s shut down the Capitol switchboard on Monday!
http://democrats.com/alito-48
4. Call the DNC (202-863-8000) and the DSCC (202-224-2447) and tell them your 2006 contributions will depend on the success of the Alito filibuster. Tell them they need to get every Democratic Senator on board.
5. Call talk shows like Air America, C-SPAN, etc. and talk about what we’re doing on this blog and how we’re killing ourselves to stop Alito – and how we can win if everyone who cares about the future of our Democracy joins us.
6. Keep hope alive – because American Democracy is worth it!!!
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To arrange an interview, click here: http://democrats.com/contact
just become an Eminem fan…and I never thought I’d say that.
You know, if more rappers (of all colors/genders) started talking about politics and less about some of the other stuff, they could bring about a new revolution in this country…
I’d say I’m a highly infrequent listener but, whenever I’ve heard him, I’ve dug his political messages, liked his imagery VERY MUCH, and think he’s very handsome (!) … and I’m someone who can’t bear hip-hop and all that.
There is another version, that one is the second of Mosh. The orginal version was meant as a GOTV during the Presidential election. That one was equally powerful too. One the orginal version, everybody went to the ballot boxes.
You can find here.
He also had another one before that one. I don’t think that made it as big because it was very controversial.
Click here.
Nelson?!?! That is FANTASTIC news!
Nelson’s voicemail inbox is full, send faxes!
You can send one electronically using this link
Urge him to reconsider his previous remarks, and to join his fellow Democrats for the filibuster: Akaka (D-HI) (202) 224-6361
A ‘NO’ vote is basically a ‘Yes’ Vote! CHARGE!!!!
If you have a fax machine, here are the Dem’s fax numbers.
(I made some corrections.)
My friend Jan, (BooTrib member songmaker) just left me a message that she called every damn Dem Senator!! Go Jan!
I ask you to support the filibuster against Judge Alito and to vote against Judge Alito.
Judge Alito is a wolf in the fold, wearing sheeps’ clothing. He will not respect or uphold the rights of others to privacy, civil rights and voting rights. He has shown time and again that he is on the side of business when it comes to redressing the injuries of citizen plaintiffs and employees.
I don’t live in Nebraska, I live in Wisconsin presently. Yet I am called to write you because it is important as Democrats to make a principled stand on this issue. Judge Alito is not, repeat, not worthy to sit in Justice O’Connor’s seat. Justice O’Connor learned to moderate her views and to tread cautiously during her time on the bench. Judge Alito is not about to change his hyperconservative views, his thinking, or his heart.
Please reconsider and vote with other Democrats for a filibuster of Alito and a vote against Alito.
Thank you.
[blksista]
One thing, I think that his making the public announcement has put the pressure on a lot of Senators who would not have otherwise gone along. It sure got all of US hopping!
First : Call the Democrats (Mary Landrieu, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, and Tom Harkin) who oppose Alito but also said they oppose a filibuster. We must persuade them that a vote against Alito is meaningless if they don’t support a filibuster. Senator Salazar (D-CO) 202-224-5852 Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) 202-224-5824 (If you can’t get through, look up the Senator’s District Office number in your phone book or here: http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/?lvl=C) Senator Barack Obama Phone: 202-224-2854 District Offices: Chicago: 312-886-3506 Marion: 618-997-2402 Springfield: 217-492-5089; Senator Tom Harkin Phone: 202-224-3254 District Offices: Des Moines: 515-284-4574 Cedar Rapids: 319-365-4504 Davenport: 563-322-1338 Dubuque: 563-582-2130 Sioux City: 712-252-1550
Second : Call your own Democratic Senator: 888-355-3588 or 888-818-6641. If you can’t get through, look up the Senator’s District Office number in your phone book or here: http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/?lvl=C
Third : Unbelievably, three Democrats (Ben Nelson, Tim Johnson and Robert Byrd) support Alito! Tell them to either support filibuster or at least “don’t get in the way.” Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) 202-224-6551 Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) 202-224-3954 Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) 202-224-5842
888-355-3588 or 888-818-6641. If you can’t get through, look up the Senator’s District Office number in your phone book or here: http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/?lvl=C
Fourth: Call the “Red State” Democrats: (Message same as above — “No” is meaningless) Tom Carper (DE)
Kent Conrad (ND)
Byron Dorgan (ND)
Blanche Lincoln (AR) Mark Pryor (AR)
Fifth : Call these “Blue State” and pro-choice Republicans: (Message: A “Unitary Executive” is dangerous to balance of powers–please do not get in the way of a filibuster.) Lincoln Chafee (RI)
Susan Collins (ME)
Lisa Murkowsky (AK)
Bob Smith (OR)
Olympia Snowe (ME)
Ted Stevens (AK)
For extra credit, call all of the 2008 Presidential candidates who are sitting Senators–Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Russ Feingold, and John Kerry–and tell them to either LEAD THE FILIBUSTER or KISS YOUR SUPPORT GOODBYE. 888-355-3588 or 888-818-6641. If you can’t get through, look up the Senator’s District Office number in your phone book or here: http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/?lvl=C
You can also send that message to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (202-224-2447) and the Democratic National Committee (202-863-8000).
Polls and public opinion are another way to apply pressure — get word out about why Alito needs to be filibustered:
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. (Click here)
People for the American Way has collected nearly 65,000 signatures to send to the Senate, please add yours: Save the Court Petition
John Kerry has endorsed this anti-Alito petition, signers’ names will be read into the Congressional Record:http://www.johnkerry.com/…
{I just posted this over at Janets Diary, another Must View!!}
As Eric, over at Bush Flash puts it so Simply:
THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA
Encore Feature- You Should Watch This, Every Day.
Just went to Salazar’s site to get fax # and saw:
HOT TOPIC:
Sen. Salazar to Vote Against Alito Nomination
link
will he support the filibuster? That’s the issue we have to hit them with ALL weekend. I mentioned yesterday that we needed a shift in the wind to help us out, I feel like we’re starting to get that with each Senator who decides to stand with Kerry. (Feinstein!!!)
You have a contagious disease that is making everyone feel better. Damndest thing.
are now posted on his website
GO KERRY! GO!
I didn’t know he had become a “NO,” adapting fax to request filibuster.
Also suggest contacting the money folks through the weekend:
the DNC
the DSCC
the DLC
My message: Senate Democrats MUST FILIBUSTER the Alito vote – it is time to TAKE A STAND – I will NOT GIVE my money, time, or energy to any senate Democrat who does not FILIBUSTER!
(My state’s senators are Republicans so I could not mention my vote. Maybe they will listen to my wallet – money talks – right?)
a great message, tampopo. It’s thanks to you and the rest of the 12 Days for Justice crew that I’m so fired up about this right now. We have to keep our heads up and refuse to go down without a fight! Lets keep those punches flying!
Now THAT is an excellent idea. It’s on my list for tomorrow. I love threatening not to give money. Because I actually do give money.
Unlike calling my Republican senators who only have to look at my zip code to know that I don’t vote for them or give them money.
One other tactic is to ask wavering Senators to abstain from voting for cloture, rather than voting no. Frist needs 60 votes to end debate and if we can get a mix of 41 nos and abstentions, then we are in good shape.
Excellent point! Gives the ones who have announced that they won’t filibuster a way to save face and still have the filibuster stop Alito!
It gives them cover when they go home to their constituents. They technically didn’t vote for filibuster but they did nothing to stop it either. It’s a wink and a nudge move.
you can download the quicktime version from gnn here:
http://www.gnn.tv/videos/video.php?id=28
We also might want to include “moderate” republicans in Blue states, like Chafee and Snowe and Collins. They might not actively participate in the filibuster, but we might be able to ask them to abstain from voting at all.
I hit them all–Chafee and Snowe, including the moderate Dems sitting on the fence. Whew!
Take that, dark side of the Force!
Now we all know that the party of choice wants money. I just notified the democratic party of not sending in any more money for them if they do not show us out here that they can not stand up and fight. I also tole them I would vote for them again if they did not give me reason to do so. HOpe maybe that will get someones attention. I told them I liked Mr. Dean; however, he is not the democratic voter out here who works hard for their money to have it squandered by the likes of the DLC, etc. I do not like to talk like this to anyone in the democratic party, but I did tonight!
Lyrics:
Eminem
Mosh
VERSE 1:
Scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel re-energize and rewind
I give sight to the blind, my insight through the mind
I exercise my right to express what I feel inside
Its just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight you take it as I’mma whip someone’s ass
If you don’t understand don’t even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or atleast shows no difficulty multi-taskin
And juggling both, perhaps mastered his craft, slash
Entrepenaur, who has helped launch a few more rap acts
Who has had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his careeer, typical manur, moving past that
Mister kiss his ass crack, hes a class act
Rubberband man, yeah, he just snaps back
(Chorus)
Come along, follow me, as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need, to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength, come with me, and I won’t, steer you wrong
Give your faith and your trust, as I guide us through the fog, to the light at the end of the tunnel
We gon fight, we gon charge, we gon stomp, we gon march through the swamp, we gon mosh through the marsh, take us right
through the doors
Come on
VERSE 2:
All the people up top, on the side and the middle, from the ghetto, lets all form and stomp just a little
Just let it gradually build, from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people, some white and some black
Don’t matter what color, all that matters is we’re gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause, no matter the weather
If it rains, let it rain, yeah the wetter the better
They ain’t gon’ stop us, they cant, were stronger now more then ever
They tell us no we say yeah, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell, we gon let em? No
Stomp, push, shove, mush… Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home
Come On
(Chorus)
Come along, follow me, as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need, to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength, come with me, and I won’t, steer you wrong
Give your faith and your trust, as I guide us through the fog, to the light at the end of the tunnel
We gon fight, we gon charge, we gon stomp, we gon march through the swamp, we gon mosh through the marsh, take us right
through the doors
Come on
VERSE 3:
Imagine it poorin, its rainin down on us, mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone’s tryin to tell us something, maybe this is god, just sayin we responsible
For this monster, this coward, that we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin, how can we allow something like this, without pumpin our fists
Now, this is our, final hour
Let me, be the voice, in your strength and your choice, let me simplify the rhyme, just to implify the noise
Tryin to amplify to times it, and multiply it by six-teen million people are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech, let the president answer our high anarchy
Strap him with a AK-47, let him go fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil, no more psychological warfare to trick us to thinking that we ain’t loyal
If we don’t serve our own country, we’re patronizing our hero
Look in his eyes, its all lies, the stars and stripes, have been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And replaced with his own face, mosh now or die, if I get sniped tonight, you’ll know why, cuz I told you to fight
(Chorus)
Come along, follow me, as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need, to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength, come with me, and I won’t, steer you wrong
Give your faith and your trust, as I guide us through the fog, to the light at the end of the tunnel
We gon fight, we gon charge, we gon stomp, we gon march through the swamp, we gon mosh through the marsh, take us right
through the doors
Come on
Back to lyrics
I just sent a dozen e-mails to Senators. If the Dems don’t filibuster, I am cutting up the card they just sent me and telling them to get an f-ing spine.
Now, now Teacher Toni…everyone knows it’s spelled “effin'”
(note my Boston accent)
I’m so curious what your signature means…. will you tell me?
GOD! I’m listening to Mike Malloy. He’s attacking Ann Coulter (see Steven D’s story below).
Lately, I’m pretty sure we are stuck in 1984….
Gotcha.
Those were trying times. The Reagan years. I spent every lunch hour collecting signatures on Sierra Club petitions to get rid of James Watt.
As in George Orwell…sorry, I tend to think that everyone understands what I’ saying…I keep forgetting
it ain’t easy being me…
ps: thanks for the warm re-welcome, it’s been awhile since I’ve benn bloggin’ around….Thought I’ld whet my chops with a few comments, and snarks..just keep an eye on me, make sure I don’t get carried away….
I knew you meant Orwell, and it should have occurred to me … but I was also trying to think back to those actual years and what was going on. To be precise, I was collecting the Watts signatures in 1981 … and by 1984 I was a single mom with a home business but taking my daughter in a pack on all the marches … Greenpeace, animal rights, etc.
There was something about becoming a parent, for me, that really affected my commitment to fighting … how could I be laid back and leave a bleak future for my child and her offspring?
You are one of the good ones susanhu, and trust me, an old 60’s radical, This too shall pass….
What I do now, is “Local Politics”. The big picture is too overwhelming (must be lsd flashbacks or somethin’)
I moved to the woods down South, from Boston, became a precinct chair, I run the 2nd district dems blog here in NC, and seem to be involved in few commissioner’s races, and State Party Meetings. At times it seems wicked easy, and other times, just too much…but like the wings of butterflies, I know it has an effect somewhere in the world.
This is only a skirmish in a bigger battle…. Listen to the WHOLE song. Time to buy a black hoody….. Get involved…. Time is growing short. Blessings to Eminem. Support to Gore at this time would also be helpful, as we do have a constituional crisis. Removing the WMD, our President as well as his head thugs from power. EtJ
Visit this site as well: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/7174
NOTE the signs…..
I was feeling all hopeless and as if nothing I did would make any difference. Then I read your comment about the American Revolution. It made me laugh and then it made me get off my butt and fire off some more emails. Thanks.
Paul Revere would have dug the ‘net … would have saved him a lot of mileage on his horse.
Something else that someone on Sam Seder’s show said tonight … i wish I could remember how he said it …. when Bush took his oath of office, he didn’t take an oath to fight enemies however he chose … he took an oath to UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION.
Kind of says it all in its own way.
And the Revolutionaries weren’t only going to lose their country (only!) they were going to be hung.
From John Nichols at The Nation:
Read the whole thing, it is quite good.
How come this is common sense to us, and soooo alien to the rest them? Thank goodness for those boys in Boston, Sons of Liberty, indeed!
me that the reason these papers are calling for a filibuster is because they’ve actually done some gasp research on Alito’s judicial past. That’s how I came to the conclusion that he was a danger to our democracy.
I have to wonder if the Senators who weren’t in the hearings did their homework….I am not optimistic. I think the Republicans have relinquished control of their chamber to the White House, and will follow him off the cliff. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we are being dragged along.
Do not Despair in the face of overwhelming odds…
Remember, that we DO NOT control anything. They have it all right now. Their hubris will be their downfall.
A rag-tag bunch of minuteman against the most powerful Army in the known world, took to their pamphlets (blogs), dressed up like Native Americans, threw some tea overboard in the middle of the night,fought from behind stone walls…guerrilla terrorists, as they are know nowaday, shook the world.
Never give up, never surrender, as susanhu said, it’s for the children..
Fight the bastards in your pajamas,in the workplace, never let them think for a minute, they are safe.
As Caro posted earlier, BuzzFlash was reporting a rumor that Senator Obama was undecided on whether to support a filibuster of Samuel Alito.
Well, WQAD out of the Quad Cities is now reporting that rumor as fact. More than that they are reporting that Iowa Senator Tom Harkin will not support a filibuster (though he will vote against Alito).
Call both Senators and let your voice be heard.
Senator Barack Obama
Phone: 202-224-2854
District Offices:
Chicago: 312-886-3506
Marion: 618-997-2402
Springfield: 217-492-5089
Senator Tom Harkin
Phone: 202-224-3254
District Offices:
Des Moines: 515-284-4574
Cedar Rapids: 319-365-4504
Davenport: 563-322-1338
Dubuque: 563-582-2130
Sioux City: 712-252-1550
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