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I'm seeing/hearing/reading that our side is being asked to implore Senator Byrd to vote against/support a filibuster against Sammy "The Slime" Alito.
With that in mind, I might suggest that my fellow (and sister) DU'ers take into account that Senator Byrd gives not a tinkers dam about "choice." It won't play for him. He is surrounded here in West Virginia by Democrats who HATE abortion, and tell him so every 7.92749 seconds.
He's not much concerned with criminal procedure. If some little 10 year old got felt up by a lady cop on a bogus warrant during a meth raid, it's not his concern.
In a word, beyond God, his beloved Erma, and the State of West Virginia, God bless him, Senator Byrd cares for one thing above all others: The Senate of the United States of America, a Republic Established Upon Democratic Principles.
If we would turn Senator Byrd away from Judge Alito, we must do so by making it abundantly clear to him that Sammy Alito is the worst thing to happen to the Senate since Caligula made a horse a member of the Roman Senate. And perhaps worse. It's entirely possible that Alito could be the final lyncpin in making a horse's ass the Lord and Master of the United States Senate in the form of George W. Bush.
If, in the course of your phone call to Senator Byrd's office, you could use a little Latin and ask the person on the other end to write down that Latin, it would go a long way.
May I suggest "Alito delenda est."
At the risk of whatever disagreement with which I may meet, I offer these suggestions because Senator Byrd, by virtue of his tenure and his oft-cited devotion to the body, should he choose to vote against cloture on the floor debate (the effective definition of "filibuster") he may take some along with him; for the Senate, no matter how apparently subservient, no matter how filled with those that Paul described as "lukewarm" (or was it Jesus), can occasionally still rear on its hind legs and remember its former greatness.
That desire to remain relevant will resonate with far more senators than a plea about a woman's body.
God, how I wish it was not so. But it is. Every senator will take some calculated political risks. But no senator wishes to jeopardize that body to which he/she feels more allegiance than unto their own mother.
Senator Byrd should be reminded that history has a way of dealing harshly with those who appease, those who concede, those who fail when Destiny says "You must."
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