so do you think not being prepared in advance to oppose Alito

[G_j]

is something like not being prepared for Katrina?

Didn't we know all along this was coming: a RWingnut that would tip the Supreme Court and do incalculable damage to America?

[Teaser]

1. NARAL dropped the ball big time

lamos.

[Vincardog]

2. We were prepared and we did oppose. The "leadership" failure is

not the same either. BushCO failed to act in NO on purpose. They did not like the uppity black folks voting Democratic. While the people did everything they could to move the fossilized leaders in both cases they can not be equated.

Katrina was a calculated power play by the RWingNutz
aLIEto was consolidating Corporate power in the NWO

[G_j]

3. so you are saying

the Dems were prepared for the Alito fight? I didn't get that impression myself.

[jillan]

4. No they weren't. The hearings were a joke.

The repugs did nothing.

And the dems had no continuity.
They could have been so much more effective.

I can remember watching and there were many times that the
only 2 dems that were sitting thru the hearings were
Leahy, and KENNEDY! I remember watching Kennedy, and feeling so much pride.

That said, the embarrassment to Kennedy about the docs from CAP should never
have happened.

The dems need leadership, they need to learn to speak in one voice, and only then will they become effective.

[Vincardog]

5. How many hundred thousand FAXes Phone calls and letters do you

think makes a fight? I say WE Democrats and I mean US not the Leadership sellouts to Corporate power in the DLC. I agree that the game was stacked against us and the "Leaders" might have done a much better job. But I stand by my statement that WE THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS DID FIGHT.

[G_j]

6. in that I agree

yes we did! :toast:

[IndianaGreen]

7. DLC was so busy keeping their powder dry that they forgot

what to use it for.