Patrick Leahy officially announced his YES vote for Roberts

[clitzpah queen]

Makes you wonder what 3 days of parking yourself by the telephone making tons of calls to the Senate yields -- when some of the more intelligent ones in the Democratic ranks exhibit such SPINE LOSS!
He said "I have to take Judge Roberts on his word of what he'll say he'll be". WHY?

[ClassWarrior]

1. Link or source please?

NGU.

[pepperlove]

3. Yep -- just got this

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MSNBC Breaking News
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Sen. Leahy, top Democrat on judiciary panel, to vote for Roberts -

[clitzpah queen]

4. Heard him live on CSpan speaking from the Senate Hall

(I see this is the second post on this subject --nothing there when I posted it)

[derby378]

2. Do I hear the sound of someone's nose growing?

WTF are we paying Leahy for if he won't get off his ass and actually kick some every once in a while?

[Cha]

5. Well, I hear leahy's fellow

Vermonter, Dean, does Not think roberts is up for the job.

Too bad they couldn't have a little heart to fucking heart!

[Rose Siding]

6. Ridiculous! Why take Roberts' word and not that of others he rejected?

By that logic, hed confirm ANYONE as a justice!

[MN ChimpH8R]

7. Why should ANYONE

presume that Chimpy's nominees for ANY office are entitled to a presumption of competence after what we have seen? Damn you, Leahy, I used to respect you. :grr:

[Meldread]

8. If he votes for Roberts...

...I suggest a smear campaign against him when he is up for re-election. The same with any other Democrat that breaks ranks. Force them to submit or crush them. If fear motivates them then let them be AFRAID OF US.

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. You have five years to plan your 'smear campaign'

He was reelected last year, so he will be up again in 2010. I'm sure that he will be terrified.

[gort]

9. How the republicans won by losing

Back in the 90's when the republicans did not have control of both the house and the senate, they would hold press conferences everyday to complain about the "corrupt", "entrenched" democrats.

They lost battle after battle after battle, but they fought and their message got out. Eventually they slaughtered the democrats and this is why we now have this fascist state today.

We the Democrats are now the party of the Surrender Monkeys.

Let's keep on with the DLC strategy of picking our battles wisely. Soon, there will be no battle to fight, because in the end, we stood for nothing.

Leahy still gets his pension, his healthcare and his raises. It's a victory for him. For us? We get screwed yet again.

[clitzpah queen]

11. Absolutely! Years of Democratic spinelessness and left marginalization

What are we gonna do besides running around like so many chicken littles? I've called Chuck Shumer's office and Hillary's office letting them know that people will be picketing outside their offices to expose their spinelessness should they follow suit with this vote. How do we build our clout?

[gort]

14. We win by losing

Keep fighting, stay on message.

Every battle we lose, we go out fighting.

We say we lost because the Republicans are against fair wages.

We say we lost because the Republicans are against your child having a good school system.

We say we lost because the Republicans would rather give Paris Hilton a tax cut than see your parents get the medicine they need.

We say we lost because the Republicans are looting the treasury so that you and I will probably never get our Social Security benefits.

We stand up proudly every day and say we lost because we stood up for the least of us so that Americans would not be treated like third world refugees left to die by the Boy-in-the-Bubble George W. Bush Administration.

Stop surrendering.
Keep fighting.

[clitzpah queen]

17. Okay, I'm with you....but is our only option for fighting symbolic?

I sooo agreed with you point about the press conferences. For the past 5 years I kept ranting "why aren't they having daily press conferences exposing all the real crimes of Bush Co." Then some folks said "The repubs own the MSM and they wouldn't get the time". I know that's somewhat true...but they didn't consistantly try.

Okay -- keep fighting. Sure. But what about Effective ways of fighting. Okay Saturday in Washington. Then it's over. THEN WHAT?

Why no economic boycott. Why not zero in on say Stop Halliburton week- they tie in Iraq and Katrina and everything corporately evil and corrupt in this country.

[gort]

18. It all comes down to money

Put your money where your politics are.

Support progressive candidates.

I hate to pin all my hopes on the 2006 house elections, but it would be a start if we pull off the impossible and take back the house.

I myself need to step up and support local candidates.

If you can't send money, volunteer your time.

I am lucky that my Congressman is Jim McDermott.

Both of my Senators are democrats, although Cantwell has been a big disappointment. As they say, the worst democrat is better than the best republican.

[LibDemAlways]

10. Why doesn't Leahy yet understand that

you can never trust the word of a repuke - particularly one appointed by the chimp?

When Roberts' neanderthal rulings start coming down, Leahy will be spouting the usual Dem bullshit - "I didn't know. Nobody told me." By then it will be too late.

[Mr Rabble]

12. This is disgusting. nt

[RethugAssKicker]

13. He even looks like a F*** Rethuglican

What did you expect? THe DEMS have showed us over and over how F*** weak they are!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. What Does A Republican Look Like?

He has a 100% rating from the American for Democratic Action..




http://www.adaction.org/ADATodayVR2004.pdf



People switch from party to party all the time... Does their DNA which controls the way we look change when they change parties...

[leftofthedial]

19. I only trust a couple of Senate Dems

the rest are the enemy

[ObaMania]

20. The calls do absolutely no good.

Even though they are flooded with calls from folks like us, they can say that the calls in favor of Roberts far outweighed the against calls, and we'd be none the wiser.

Fucking owned creeps is what they are. Leahy is an asshole.