Popus Interuptus - FILIBUSTER

[sandnsea]

(Note to Catholics - our biggest asset USED to be our sense of humor)

It is time for everybody to go the extra mile, TODAY, to save the filibuster. I have read conflicting reports on when Frist might strike, from Monday to Thursday. Just don't know, so we really have to act.

Several groups have launched campaigns to stop the “nuclear option”.

What is important is that liberals, progressives, Democrats and Greens, in ALL FIFTY STATES, take feet to the street action. This may be the single most critical action anyone takes in the next four years. There is always another election, judges are forever.

There are links to downloads for petitions, letters, and talking points; phone numbers, online petitions, and list of 24 targeted Republian Senators, although they're all important.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=661

PLEASE ACT!!

[Helga Scow Stern]

1. Nominated! We need to keep it up.

[Gelliebeans]

2. nominated also

very important !!!!!

[adwon]

3. Love the title

It's just so...I don't know. It sounds kinda dirty, even if I know it isn't.


Otherwise, good info. Thanks.

[progressoid]

4. Exactly. Call your senators on Monday - it's critical

[merh]

5. I love the title of your thread!

I have nominated it as well and will begin my efforts to let my congress critters know that the filibuster must be saved.

My senator is bickering with the weed, so maybe he is open to listening to folks that support action against the weed's agenda!

Thanks for the links!!

[kerrygoddess]

6. Nuclear Option Interuptus! N/T

[Pirate Smile]

7. FYI - here are the UNDECIDED and UNDECLARED Republican Senators

on this issue according to a Washington Times article (link below).

UNDECIDED
Collins of Maine
Warner of VA
Hagel of Nebraska
McCain of Arizona

UNKNOWN WHERE THEY STAND ON THE ISSUE:

Cochran of Mississippi
Sununu of NH
Voinovich of Ohio

FIRMLY OPPOSED TO THE MEASURE - thank you very much!
Chafee of RI
Snowe of Maine

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050323-121608-8533r.htm

[lonestarnot]

8. Calling Monday... calling!

[merh]

9. kick

:kick:

[kerrygoddess]

10. Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell:

Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell: Plan to Ban Filbusters, "Unprecedented, Unfair and Unwise"
3 April 2005

Yesterday in the Democratic weekly radio address, Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell called the Republican plan to ban filibusters of judicial nominees, "unprecedented, unfair and unwise."

"Neither I nor any other senator, Republican or Democrat, ever dreamed of taking the kind of drastic action now being proposed," said Mitchell, a former federal judge himself who was majority leader from 1988-95 as a senator from Maine.

"We had the power to do so, but we refrained from exercising that power because it was as wrong then as it is now. The end does not justify the means."

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=662

[sandnsea]

11. Anybody petitioning?

It would be great to hear what people's response is.

[moggie12]

12. Defeatum Fristus! (that evil snake)

Thanks for posting -- it's critical that we get mobilized and stop Frist.

[kerrygoddess]

13. LOL! "Defeatum Fristus!" N/T

[cry baby]

14. kick

[jor_mama]

15. Kick for anti-nucular-option

But "popus interuptus" unfortunately reminded me of one of the nicknames donned on the Road Runner or Wile E. from the old Looney Tunes.

I'm sorry ... it's just the first thing I thought of ...

[Vektor]

16. Kick!

Good work citizen!

[merh]

17. kick

:kick: