The GOP will probably get away with spinning it as a bad thing, since most people won't actually compare relative costs. I imagine most of them won't go much further than a passing, "Wow, that IS a lot of money."
"Wait, you mean that they can go through our dirty laundry too? SOMETHING MUST CHANGE!"
All our votes and our support and our tax dollars mean absolutely nothing if the people we've elected will not stand up and protect us.
So many people are saying "oh, what good will it do? What good will it do to filibuster if we've already lost?"
What GOOD does it do to roll over and stick our feet in the air? What GOOD does it do to hide for eight years while our Constitution is burning? You can argue with me that no politician ever cares about his or her constituents, fine.
But we know that the Bush Administration does NOT care about America. They have done nothing for the past six years but prove that. The right of a human being to a fair trial means less to Bush than the metaphorical ability to find more heads to spike outside the front gate. The Executive branch is already far overpowered. Whatever Bush wants to do, with a few very slight exceptions, he does. It is always bad. Keep in mind, this is coming from somebody who dealt with 2004 by trying to find any reason to sleep well at night afterward, and I could find nothing. I did not want to believe that what I'd been dreading before the election could actually come to pass, and yet, it is. It has.
The Constitution was put in place with three governmental branches because we knew the danger of an unopposed, super-powered executive. Now we have one, and he's just asked to cut the last ties that could possibly constrain him. Although, really, when he asked Congress for the right to decide on his own - regardless of the constitution - when he ought to go to war, who couldn't see this coming?
Run, run away, and live to fight another day.
Except that if we keep running, eventually there won't be another day. There is no such thing as a graceful loser in politics.
And you know what? While you're calling the Dems to beg a filibuster, call the Republicans too. You might not have voted for them, but they STILL represent you, whether you like it or not. So give them a piece of your mind about Alito too.
"But that wouldn't do any good!" Maybe not, but do you really want to live for the next 20 years knowing that you didn't even try?
And if you want to talk about poker, we've got one chip left and we're praying for an ace.
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