Reply #49: Monday updates from Alito48:

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The Alito 48
Submitted by Bob Fertik on January 27, 2006 - 12:13am.Sam Alito

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Monday Updates:
12:50 pm: John Kerry is giving a magnificent speech on C-SPAN 2
12:35 pm: Jim Jeffords (I-VT) supports the filibuster! (#19)
12:30 pm: Contrary to earlier reports, Chafee is undecided on the filibuster - keep calling!
12:26 pm: Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) is in the "Gutless Caucus" opposed to Alito but also quietly opposed to the filibuster - we must turn him around!
12:12 pm: C-SPAN 2 is scrolling 56-35 for Alito on a final vote - but no tally on the filibuster. John Kerry will speak on the floor at 12:30.
11:45 am: Bill Nelson (D-FL) still opposes the filibuster - we must turn him around!
11:42 am: Tom Harkin will abstain, which is great! (#18)
10:55 am: AP's Jesse Holland is singing an entirely different tune: Kennedy leads final effort to block Alito. That means it's too close to call!!!! Kennedy offers the perfect filibuster sound-bite: "He is the wrong judge at the wrong time in the wrong place." Jeffords opposes Alito - but will he filibuster? Keep calling the undecideds!!!
10:35 am: joanneleon and tanya are gathering all of the feedback at DailyKos - we still have LOTS of undecided Senators to call!
9:18 am: Leahy supports the filibuster (#17)
8:45 am: Olympia Snowe is up this year too: 207-799-0221. She has always been supported by pro-choice groups like the Women's Campaign Fund (202-393-8164) and Republicans for Choice (703- 212-0890) - urge them to convince Snowe to oppose Alito.
7:45 am: Jim Baron says Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) will cast a crucial vote against the filibuster to placate the GOP, and then cast a meaningless vote against Alito to play his voters for suckers. We'll know for sure at Chafee's 10 am press conference - watch for Karl Rove standing behind the curtain. Chafee is in a tough election - his campaign phone is 401-921-1920.
Baron says Jack Reed (D-RI) will vote for the filibuster (#16)
7 am: Mark Pryor (D-AR) opposes a filibuster because "there is not a smoking gun in his past." Well, we just found a SMOKING CANNON. Karl Rove's ho at the NY Times, David Kirkpatrick, reports Alito's nomination was entirely engineered by the treasonous Federalist Society - the same people who brought us "legal" torture and "legal" wiretapping - and is the culmination of a plan to push federal courts to the far right that began as a conspiracy at Yale in 1982. Three points: (1) Do Alito's Democratic supporters in the Senate - and the swing votes - know that Alito's nomination was engineered by the Federalist Society? (2) Did David Kirkpatrick tell Bill Keller about this before today, and if so, why did Keller withhold this crucial information from NY Times readers? Is he treating his readers as suckers yet again? (3) Let's take the fizz out the Federalist Society's champagne by launching a successful filibuster!
7 am: Vichy Democrats has a plan for this morning - let's pick up the phones!
The man who must stop the filibuster is Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a.k.a. Terri Schiavo's personal physician. Frist was on Meet the Press yesterday, where Tim Russert ripped him to shreds (courtesy of the Ostroy Report). Why should Democrats support this jerk on anything?
Lots of great resources at the Alliance for Justice's Supreme Court Watch
Today's best blogs: Bog Geiger, BuzzFlash, Armando, Thom Hartmann, Bev Conover, BooMan, Linda Starr, Gen. JC Christian, Alternet, Duke1676, Todd Gitlin, Paul Savoy...
Bush is going to Nashville tomorrow - bring your "Filibuster Alito" signs to the protest!

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