How about let's kick some Alito butt and stop wringing our hands like weenies?

as i said the other day, if there was ever a time for the democrats, particularly of the senatorial persuasion, to pull together, tie themselves to the railroad tracks and collectively say, enough is enough, it's now... i am sick unto death of the mealy-mouthed, half-assed opposition to the bush gang of criminals who have made it perfectly clear to anyone who's paying attention that they intend to solidify and perpetuate their hold on unobstructed power and all the money and control that goes with it...

The Democratic leaders tried to sound tough and principled when they were really acting soft and manipulative. For instance, they urged Democrats to cast a “strategic vote” on Alito’s nomination as well as calling on senators to “vote their conscience” – but neither phrase meant what it purported to mean.

The so-called “strategic vote” on Alito amounted to Democrats conceding defeat on his nomination but then having most Democrats vote against him. That supposedly would permit Democrats to say “I told you so” when the negative consequences of Alito’s confirmation become apparent to the American people.

But that sort of ineffectual opposition is less “strategic” than it is “symbolic.” It amounts to surrendering to George W. Bush and the Republicans, even when important constitutional issues are at stake, and then briefly showing the flag to appease an angry Democratic base. It’s “strategic” like Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox was.

The other phrase – “vote their conscience” – actually was a signal to Democratic senators facing reelection campaigns in pro-Bush “Red States” to cross over to the Republican side on the Alito nomination in order to gain some political protection.

So instead of challenging Alito on principle – because he’s a legal theorist for the Imperial Presidency and believes that a “unitary executive” should rule the nation almost by fiat – the “Red State” Democrats would “vote their conscience” by making a crass calculation and succumbing to political pressure.

get out there and FIGHT, you bastards... nothing less than our country is at stake...

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