What We Learned
Jan 30th, 2006 at 6:43 pm by Susie
Okay, so it’s obvious there is cloture today. It sucks. But it happens in the big leagues that sometimes you lose an inning. That doesn’t mean you stop playing, it just means you take a deep breath and go back to the dugout for some fresh plays.
All this Faxing and phone calling and e-mailing…has scared the bejeebers out of the Washington establishment over the last couple of weeks. You know why? It came from a true grassroots movement. From anger, from true concern, from patriotism — from a wellspring of individual citizens who cared enough about their nation to get off their butts and do something.
That is a lot of power waiting to be harnassed, folks.
And the powers that be that have controlled Washington, D.C., aren’t the ones in the driver’s seat of this vehicle. The citizens of this nation are. Something out of their control entirely — a group of angry citizens who know how to use communications tools, and who aren’t going to just sit by and be silent any longer.
If they think the Alito battle is the only one we’re willing to fight, they can think again. This was merely the first skirmish.
Ralph Reed can take his mis-used, duped letter writing brigade — because I’ll take a well-informed, personally invested, intelligent and motivated group of people like every single one of our readers any day of the week.
You think we’re just going to slink away, tail between our legs and wallow in a little setback? Hell no. Here’s the news of the day: the American public is wide awake. And we’re pissed.
“All this Faxing and phone calling and e-mailing…has scared the bejeebers out of the Washington establishment over the last couple of weeks.”
I wish I’d see some evidence of this. If it had truly scared them we’d have gotten more votes. I am so furious with my Senators (Democrats both) I could spit.
My senators, both Dems, voted one on each side.
Patty Murray, you’re a hero.
Maria Cantwell, you’re a coward!
Well my Sen. Wyden did listen. But it didn’t seem to frighten too many Senators. Those are the ones to be scared of. You still have to be voted into office, right? Or is Diebold part of the next election team?
If there’s one Democratic myth that needs to be challenged, it’s that DINO incumbents can be forced to “grow a spine”.
I’m all for channeling populist outrage, but until liberals start pooling resources to take down the likes of Lieberman, Biden, et al, we’re all just whistling past the graveyard.