TUNE IN NOW! (not on CNN) Update [2006-1-27 14:22:48 by susanhu]: The Senate has adjourned until Monday. I’ll keep checking Kerry’s site for today’s comments.
ALERT! C-Span2 is replaying Molly Ivins’ interview from earlier this morning — did you see her column against Hillary? Even my podunk newspaper ran that column!
What’s he saying? (For those of us without TV)
Back when they first launched MSNBC it was all over Microsoft. I could leave my office, walk down the hall about ten steps, turn left, turn right and I’d be in the cafeteria, and there were always a couple of monitors tuned to MSNBC. Big 27″ ceiling-mounted suckers, not 14″ computer monitors. I don’t think they do that anymore.
I remember that, Omir! And i couldn’t even get MSNBC on my cable system in Seattle! I thought that was a hoot.
I’ll check his site and see if his remarks are published …
roll call now….
First : Call the three Democrats (Mary Landrieu, Ken Salazar, and Dianne Feinstein) 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 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) 202-224-3841
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/…
re-send the Anti-Alito Brigade Round Up to everybody.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/12/26/1901/9763
plaster it on telephone poles.
LOL
some Letters to hack, mix and use for LTE’s, reps, etc:
http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2006/1/26/153155/444
joe. q. public desperately needs to get why this is so important and a filibuster warranted.
And I used to love to check out the MSNBC studios during my lunch hour … fascinating!
Kerry’s page doesn’t have these new remarks up but it has his statement on filibuster and yesterday’s remarks on the floor.
I never made it over to the studios. I assume they’re still on campus somewhere (at least some of them).
he’s doing very well.
What’s happening now? (I was looking up Kerry’s comments.)
He’s done and there’s silence. I think they are looking for a quorum call or something like that.
Senate is adjourned until Monday.
gonna be a busy weekend, I suspect
Molly’s got a hat on. Don’t tell me she’s battling cancer again 🙁
her column was SO AWESOME! If you missed it, I can try to find it … and she’s reiterating her reasoning behind writing that column.
don’t have cspan. Molly ? Ivins?
sorry, didn’t see the above.
“Why Hillary Won’t Save Us“
A must-read, imho.
We had a parting of the ways last November … and as one of my acts of desperate defiance, I resigned from his newsletter.
I just signed up again.
i thought the senate was supposed to be in today? why did they adjourn until monday? did that push the cloture vote forward?