POEM to Leahy, Kennedy, Biden, Kohl, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, Durbin

[wakemewhenitsover]

Dear Senate Judiciary Dems,

I think the problem is that Democrats are basically fair, decent, and honest, and project these qualities onto other people. Would the Republicans be bending over backwards to seem collegial if they were grilling the left-wing equivalent of Alito, who would be as radical as a Weatherman, at least? Short-haired soft-spoken nerdy types with weepy wives seem far less dangerous than those long-haired hippies, but appearances can be deceiving. Anita Hill seemed like a fairly nice person to me, but Arlen Specter treated her like the devil's disciple.

When you know someone has a historical pattern of saying anything and everything to get a job, you have to study his record. And this record says filibuster. I've written a poem in the faint hope of inspiring you, and I'm hoping my fellow DUer's will recommend it, so that someone in the Senate Judiciary Committee will end up reading it and understand that your constituents, your base, your brethren, are hoping you'll find some balls (or in Diane Feinstein's case, I guess, some extra-strength estrogen).

"WHAT WOULD JIMMY STEWART DO?"

I think my brain will turn to custard
If I watch one more day of this charade
Mr. Alito lies, Mrs. Alito cries
Either way, our democracy dies...

"I don't really think that Bork's a god
I said it just to get the job,"
"And I joined an uncivil alumni group
'Cause I didn't wanna be a party poop."

"I thought CAP was short for Phi Beta Kappa."
"Strip-searching is a way to build character."
"Um, doesn't a woman's right to choose,
Mean Manolo Blahnik or Ferragamo shoes?"
"Unitary power? No, no, no.
But once I'm a justice - Go man, go!"

Let's go 'round and 'round and 'round
You can't vote me down
If you can't pin me down...

Alito's lying, Bush is spying
Either way, our democracy's dying
With Kennedy's blarney and Biden's bluster
Isn't there some strength you can muster?
It's what the last stand was to Custer
(Jimmy Stewart would do it
He wouldn't get flustered)
Please guys, stand up and filibuster!

[Oceansaway]

1. Touche !!..n/t

[wakemewhenitsover]

2. Thanks!

[srm3rdB]

3. What would Jimmy Stewart do?

Good poem by wakemewhenitsover. I think Americans are facing a wake-up call. Consider the past performances of Bush, Inc. We can only expect more in the future.
Frankly, I believe Bush intends to stay in power long after his tenure is up. He's paving the way at the moment, as I sit here and write. Alito will be confirmed. There will be no fillibuster. Mrs. Alito saw to that yesterday as the left the hearings sobbing for her 'good" man. It's all a republican set-up to gain the soft hearted democrats sympathy.
Permit me to point each of you to the website, Common Dreams, and an article by John Pilger, entitled: The Death of Freedom. This is the most truthfully hurting piece I've read since king Bush stole the White House. I'd also like each of you to visit and sign my petition for the impeachment of Bush, Inc. You'll find it under, A Citizen's Manifesto. If this pseudo leader of our nation isn't tossed out on his ear, America will come under a dictatorship. It's in the cards he so sneakily played and there's plenty more up the same sleeve. We will be subject to illegal searches of our homes, seizures of ourselves, jailed at his whim. Patrotism and democracy will die a bloody death. The only other alternative would be civil war to remove he and his criminal empire. In so doing, thousands would be slaughtered like the stray dogs he considers us to be. It is a last resort. Impeachment is the only way. There are enough republicans in the house and senate who want him out and would make the quota needed.
Let's look back to Bush's lead-up to war on Iraq and consider the "mushroom" cloud we'd be engulfed with if Congress didn't okay his war on Iraq. Now, lets take a look at Tony Blair's lead-up to war on Iran. This time it's coming from Briton but let us not think for one instance that Bush is not involved. They're a pair who has the mind-set to control the world, much like Adolpf Hitler. Now, as our troops, like the British, are spread so thinly, in so many countries, who is left to help Blair take over Iran? Why, he has the BIG bomb! That's all it takes. And if anyone were to try to convince me that he has the conscience and foresight not to use it, I'd say they're crazy. Both men tetters dangerously on the verge of insanity. It's impossible to predict what they're capable of but it sure as hell doesn't hurt to consider the possibilities. Thank you.