OK, he's right.
It's the bottom of the ninth, so let's get up off our asses and do this thing. It's gotta be done. Let's do it now.
We all great reason for
fear, great fear as our feckless leader's puppetmaster, Beelza-Bubba Cheney, would say. OK...to Hell with 'em. But, if you haven't found a good reason to scream your lungs out yet, do so now. My good friend, Fintan16, gives it to us.
Ironically, he did it late last week, even before mikelewis started this thread. Came from some 48 hours or so of last minute scurrying to alert the Dem. Senators and staffers to a certain peril that,
onceuponatime, was theoretical, but had become
REAL in the last four weeks.
He spelled it out in a rant over at BradBlog, and its copied and URLed below. So, catch that issue there, if you actually
need a reason to "Take a Snow Day for Democracy" tomorrow.
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002303.htmFintan may never know what effect that last minute work had. But the vote did break, 10-8, on party lines.
Party lines? Is that is an omen? Should we all rise up together telephonically this day and bring down some BIG party lines ourselves?
I don't know about any of you, but I can easily call 20 Senators in a day. Maybe more. And DU has 80,000 members. So 80,000 times 20 is 1.6 million, and maybe you'd tell friends, and they would call, so there would be more, so... do you think they would notice?:evilgrin:
Remember what Jiminy Cricket says: "Always let your conscience by your guide", but ye are non-neoCon, so, "Use that phone!" as Jiminy would say.
> The Dems have made a catastrophic omission in their questioning Alito.
>
> Though they asked about Roe v. Wade, stare decisis and, even, questions about the theory of a "unitary Executive" branch, they missed the most important point, IMHO.
>
> If GWBush and Co. would rig an election; bully the US to war; loot the Treasury; commit perjury; allow GOP Reps and Senators to accept bribes like maitre'd's for our Congressional committees; and expose our soldiers to our own depleted uranium shells, (and its forever toxic residue) while protecting them with "Mattel Body Armor", is there anything they would *not* do??
>
> Forgive me, but any group that brazen is not acting out of stupidity. Instead, they act as if they will *never* be caught. And, they would not act that way if did not have reason to believe it.
>
> So, what is the reason? And what does Sam Alito have to do with it?
>
> For a very long time I assumed that the GOP were using their control of the electronic voting machine companies as their Ace in the Hole. With horror, last week, I realized I miscalculated!
>
> The Right Wing plot to forever take control of the mechanics of US government was started in the early 1970s, jointly, by the remnants of Nixon's goons and the faux-Christian Dominionists; La Haye, Ahmanson, Robertson, Falwell, etc.
>
> Were it not for their stealth agenda, they would now be known as Elmer Gantry, Ltd., a soul-saving, tax-dodging group of modern day Pharisees, fueled by a form of moral-money "Roid Rage", just waiting to judge you (and I).
>
> That means, however, that the planning stage took place before the Net, the WWW, email, etc. In particular, it puts the timing before the technology was conceived of to "flip" elections an election. So, how were these guys going to avoid the hangman?
>
> That question bring us back to Alito.
> The cabal of Young Republicans, church hacks, and other *really* bad types that put that plan together in the 70s knew they would each stretch a rope if they were caught. Therefore, they must have had some pre-computer mechanism they planned to use as escape key.
>
> What was it?
> A very simple idea... and so bloody stupid and offensive that no one in their right mind could ever assume it could work... that has usually been thought a sop to the (certifiable) Religious Right. But it was not.
>
> "It" is called the Constitutional Restoration Act. Last session of Congress it was HR3799 and SB 2082 (and easily Googled). What it does, in a nut shell does, is this.
>
> 1) In essence, it removes the US from obligations under treaties with foreign entities (unless we wish to oblige).
>
> QUOTE:`Sec. 1370. Matters that the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to review
>
> `Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district court shall not have jurisdiction of a matter if the Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction to review that matter by reason of section 1260 of this title.'.ENDQUOTE
>
> 2) It makes "non-reviewable" any actions by any government employee as long as the employee's defense is "God made me to do it".
>
> QUOTE:"`Sec. 1260. Matters not reviewable
>
> `Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review, by appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an element of Federal, State, or local government, or against an officer of Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official personal capacity), by reason of that element's or officer's acknowledgement of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.'. END QUOTE:
>
> Back to Alito.
>
> Obviously the above statute, if ever passed, would quickly come before the Supreme Court (say, if GWB and Dick Cheney personally flog, then Glock, my children because "God told us to do it!"). So, what if Alito, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and just *one* more decide, "We can't hear this case about this law. Sec. 1260 of that same law prohibits we that!" ?
>
> That would be the end of the Republic, democracy, and any hopes for a non-Orwellian future.
>
> This argument of legal Constitutionality was decided in Marbury v. Madison, in 1803. It is the linchpin of our Republic. The decision states the obvious, that the Supreme Court, and only the Supreme Court, has the right to determine whether any particular law is unConstitutional.
>
> Yet the GOP, consistent with a political war plan laid out by Gary Bauer, Pat Robertson, Grover Norquist, and the other members of the American Taliban during the 1970s, continues to re-introduce this legal Trojan Horse, year after year.
>
> Why? Because passage of this bill, combined with the acquiescense of five RE-Activist judges (four are named above) would cripple the Constitution. It would set the stage for martial law, render all other Federal and state laws moot, and allow Bush to continue thumbing his nose at free Americans while daring us to object.
>
> I think the Democratic Senators need to visit this issue and ask Alito about his views on the CRA; HB#3799 and SB#2062.
>
> No other single case, no other single vote, could mean as much to this nation as any vote Alito might cast in a United States vs. Bush, Cheney and Company case.
>
> The administration has already floated "justification" trial balloons based upon
> 1) "inherent rights",
> 2) "war power rights",
> 3) Article II powers,
> and (possibly most ludicrous),
> 4) the people's expectation that the "President will look out for their safety".
>
> The only *possible* defense of their actions, those actions about which we *already* know, would be akin to claiming a Divine Right to account for their treasonous and criminal disregard for the Constitutional rights of its citizens.
>
> Obviously, the Constitutional Restoration Act must be the "Ace in the Hole" that the Bush counted on. It forces the Supreme Court to give a pass to any "officer of Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official personal capacity)," who, in effect, says "God wanted me to do that".
>
> Without Alito's pledge to recuse in any such case, there should be a deferral of any vote on his confirmation.
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