Kerry's stepping outside protocol to stick his neck out. STAY WITH HIM cuz

[blm]

the media is going to spin this only against him and play it off as only a cheap political ploy. They will be ruthless, and so will Dem pundits angry that a Dem would do this for a base.

I said the senator to step outside protocol will get smeared from here to eternity, and by many in his own party.

They did this during BCCI, too. Dems can be their own worst enemies at times.

Please stay tough WITH him and FOR him and every senator who stands with him, because it ain't gonna be pretty.

[Justitia]

1. Since he's behind me, I'M BEHIND HIM. Thank you, Senator Kerry!

[iwanmycntrybak]

2. GO KERRY!

[Coexist]

3. I'll take whatever I can get at this point

Whomever filibusters - I am behind.

[LSparkle]

4. He's already been swift-boated ...

so he's grown "calluses" to this kind of thing (and so have we who support him). We know what to expect and that it'll all be B.S.

[Neecy]

5. I'm with him

[Sydnie]

6. He has my full support

always has had it.

Some people just might have a bit of trouble defining what "have your back" means most of the time. I hope this is not one of those times. He "has our back" right now, sucessful or not.

[leftstreet]

7. 1-888-818-6641 Whitehouse Switchboard - Call the Senators

[EFerrari]

8. We need a plan. We need to know when he's gonna start

and start ourselves yet another round of calling the Senate and calling the media.

How hard can it be? Two threads, each with a tight focus.

Whaddya think?

[blm]

14. I guess tell the media and other Senators that Kerry is doing the right

thing for the Constitution and it's appreciated by more than just his base - even some FOX analysts want a NO vote on Alito.

[EFerrari]

27. It is possible we can help if we work thru the filibuster was my point.

Two threads. One responding to media, one working with the senate.

I don't see how else we can help. But, that might help some to slow the spinning.

[blm]

30. Oh...I gotcha - absolutely. Great idea. Go for it.

You have alot of people who read your posts.

[EFerrari]

37. We need to know when John will begin so we can be right there

with him. I'm going to call his office. If I learn anything, will post here. :hi:

[blm]

38. Grazie, true patriot.

.

[EFerrari]

44. Posted #41 in the main thread.

:)

[JuniperLea]

31. You are right

We need to demand hard questions, offer up our suggestions for those questions, and demand the Senate INSIST ON ANSWERS!


We're burning daylight!

[EFerrari]

47. Kerry's office says the vote will likely be late Monday.

I'm supposed to call again Monday morning to get a better fix or any DUer can.

Then we can really offer John the support he needs from the moment he steps up to the mic.


DU

:toast:

[radwriter0555]

9. See, now THAT'S what I'm TAWKIN! A man who goes to the mat and DOES

what he says he's going to do, and what needs to be done... and says what needs to be said at the right time.

KERRY ROCKS.

THANK YOU JOHN KERRY!

[rsinger]

10. Filibuster

If ever there was a war worth fighting, this is it. Everyone should call the offices of Salazar, Feinstein and Landrieu, the three that are opposing filibuster. Keep the pressure on. Maybe it's actually working.

[wryter2000]

16. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. He's just a sore loser. He's doing this for revenge.

This is nothing but politics.

Like that? We're with him, again. Now we have to hope he can get 40 more Senators to support the filibuster.

[rsinger]

15. kerry

And why do any of them do anything. At least he's stepping up to the mat. That's more than I can say for any of the others. Are motives really the point here?

[Marnieworld]

18. I think they forgot their sarcasm smiley

It was a slice of the predictable spin not their true sentiment.

[in_cog_ni_to]

52. Thanks Marnie...I was being sarcastic and stupidly thought it was evident.

:)

[yellowdogmi]

55. Scared me for a moment.

Coming from you with out the proper smiley. I thought you had given up the battle. Glad you are still with us.

[Marnieworld]

21. I forgot

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[rsinger]

25. welcome to du

Thanks!

[malaise]

12. He did the correct thing n/t

[democrank]

13. No matter what happens

Senator Kerry deserves credit for this show of courage.

[LeftNYC]

17. Thank you Sen Kerry...someone needs to stand up for us...nt

[ClayZ]

19. Kick!

:kick:

[LeftyLizzie]

20. I'm glad someone has the guts to step up and do this . . .

Let's hope others follow suit.

[blm]

46. This is as far out as one's senate neck can go.

This move is basically unpopular in the senate right now and alot of Dems will be pissed. It's up to us to change their minds.

[radio4progressives]

22. Look if Kerry goes all the way, and ignores the inner sanctim's edicts

we will have his back. the bcci thing wasn't the rank and file that went against him. it was the fucking DLC who put a halt to that investigation.

[understandinglife]

23. Now, this is leadership.

Peace.

[Carni]

24. FINALLY someone with the balls to do something for us and

NOT THEMSELVES!

THANK YOU JOHN KERRY!

[babsbunny]

26. Do I Dare Get My Hopes Up.........

Again? Thank You President Kerry!

[Carni]

51. Honestly I don't know that anything will come of this

But I am at least heartened to see that they all aren't falling in line!

From my perspective every time one of these people shows strength someone else might take a clue via their bravery and develop a set.

[jillan]

28. excellent post blm! We need to UNITE!

more than ever.

The sheet is gonna hit the fan.

Now let's see who has the balls around here to have Kerry's back.\

[garthranzz]

29. A message of support: Alzheimer's & Alito

I sent this to Sen. Kerry earlier, and posted it as a separate thread. It's my support for what he's doing.


Alzheimer’s and Alito


Alzheiimer’s and Alito. What do they have in common, aside from that first syllable alliteration? My father, and from that connection, one must conclude, I think, that a filibuster is a moral imperative.

My father has Alzheimer’s. He’s a decorated Word War II veteran – purple heart, bronze star. He worked on the space program and for city government. He’s the most honest man I know. And everyone who’s met him says the same thing. You want a testimony to his integrity? Four different mayors had only praise for him. He’s not John Murtha, but he’s from the same generation.

We’re not sure what triggered the Alzheimer’s, but the trauma of war, his injury – he nearly died – the doctors think helped set the stage.

He lived in New Orleans. For over forty years, he not only called the Crescent City home, he helped build it. He and his wife – my mother – had a nice little home in New Orleans East. His home was an anchor, a reality zone.

He was at what they call mid-stage when Katrina struck. Before the hurricane, if we went on trips – to the D-Day Museum, for instance, or out shopping, he wouldn’t always know where we were or where we were going. But in his home, he knew how to get around. He wasn’t confused there. He knew where the bathroom was.

That’s a simple thing, knowing where the bathroom is. Try not knowing where it is. Go to a strange house, one where nobody speaks English. You’ll be confused. The obvious won’t be. And since no one speaks clearly, speaks your language, so to speak, you’re on your own. You’ll find it, by trial and error. But if five minutes later you don’t remember what the layout of the house is, you’ll have to find it all over again.

Before Katrina, he was getting worse. But he had time. He had his home. He had his dignity. And he had his wife.

Today, he goes into the VA Hospital. They may be able to find a sorceror’s apprentice brew of medicines that will stabilize him, reduce his anger and aggression, his explosive frustration. Because all he wants is to come home. Home to a house that drowned. And he can’t and he doesn’t know why.

Fog blinds his mind and he panics. So he might never live with his wife again.

It would have happened eventually, this final separation from his personality and his life. But not now, not this way, not so soon. Bad enough he was becoming a refugee in his own mind; he did not have to be a refugee from his own home in his own country.

He did not have to be, except that Bush drowned his city. Bush, through his subordinates, won’t release the records about what the federal government knew before the hurricane, but much of that’s out there anyway. We knew he gutted the Corps of Engineers’ financing, that he ignored the warnings and pleadings – even from those within his own party – so that the danger built up year by year. We know that as the hurricane approached New Orleans, he did nothing but play politics and grab for power. We know that once it hit, like Marie Antoinette he ate cake while the city drowned.

To paraphrase Senator Kerry, and others: Katrina demonstrated, irrefutably, Bush’s incompetence. Yes, the governor and mayor take some of the blame for what happened, but Katrina was a national disaster requiring a national response – before, during and after. None of it came. Not even for the “white folk.”

And yes, it’s personal. Bush can’t be trusted. For many reasons, but at least for this one: through negligence , he drowned a city and shoved my father over the Alzheimer’s abyss.

And Alito? Alito believes in an imperial presidency. An increase in executive power. No responsibility. An Alzheimer’s of accountability. Confirmation of Alito would confirm an indifference to truth, cement a befogging of our collective mind. Confirmation of Alito would vindicate Bush, empower him, and Cheney, and Rove, to ignore mistakes, to enshrine themselves, to sabotage those who oppose our self-destruction, to deny reality. Confirmation of Alito allows Bush to delude himself, to delude us, to accelerate the Alzheimer’s of the public mind.

[rsinger]

35. Beautifully said

And the mainstream media is enabling this acceleration of "the Alzheimer's of the public mind." I recommend The Daou Report on "Matthews, Moore, Murtha and the Media". Well articulated argument of how the media is facilitating the Bushco takeover of this country; and how difficult it is fight back as turning our words against us has become part of the modus operandi of the administration and the media.

[Olney Blue]

61. garthranzz, thank you so much for that letter

I hope your father can find peace (and you too).
:hug:

[stepnw1f]

32. Good One!!! (nt)

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. I'm with him! nt

[Angry Girl]

34. Wow! All right, Kerry!

I'm so glad to be shown wrong!

[bigtree]

36. Is he in town?

[ProSense]

40. He's at the World Economic Forum with a group of other Senators

Snip...

Republicans say the delay is the result of Democrats hoping to prevent a victory for the president before his address, but one aide to a Democratic Judiciary Committee member said he thought Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist may be holding off because some Republicans will be in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum.

http://khon.com/khon/display.cfm?storyID=10783§ionID=1150

[blm]

42. Supposed to speak to a Peace Group in Ireland Friday. Maybe CSPAN will

carry the speech now. I tend to doubt it, though.

[huskerlaw]

39. I put my Kerry sign back up.

Dug it out of the closet, slapped it on the window.

I don't give a shit if it IS a political ploy. He's one of the very few (like, 2) Senators who are actually standing up to BushCo with any sort of regularity.

[EFerrari]

41. Senator Kerry's office thanks DU and said there will not be a vote

before Monday, likely late Monday.

So, I'm supposed to call back early that morning to get a better fix on the timing.

:)

[bigtree]

43. does John need to come back to Washington before he can do this?

Or can he do it by his absense or by proxy? How's he planning to manage this? Anyone got a line?

[blm]

48. He's speaking in Ireland on Friday to a Peace Group. I expect he'll be in

DC by Saturday or Friday afternoon at the earliest.

[bigtree]

54. thanks blm

[jsamuel]

45. Thanks blm!

Great points!

[Just Me]

49. Kerry is a REAL LEADER!!!

:patriot:

[MoonRiver]

50. I'm definitely with him! Just hope this all comes to pass.

I think he should stand up and start the filibuster even if he doesn't have 39 others (just heard Kennedy will join him) in the bag. Dems need to look like they care about saving this country. If Kerry and Kennedy stand up, the others might be shamed into joining, regardless of what the Repukes spin.

[beaconess]

53. You are SO rights! We demand that our leaders take a stand

so, when they do - and Kerry is REALLY sticking his neck out on this one - we have got to stand up for them!

[BlueIris]

56. As I've posted before: You wanted it? You got it. Now support it.

And him.

You begged, pleaded, screamed and threw insults, claiming no one cared, claiming no one was selfless, strong or courageous enough to answer this call. Well, HERE'S YOUR SIGN. LEARN TO READ IT.

Truth? A part of me wishes Kerry hadn't done this, because I think it could jeopardize a part of his future and as those of you who read my posts know, without a Kerry Admin in '08 I think America is pretty well fucked, Bush impeachment or no impeachment. And it really kills me that even though Kerry has really bent over backwards here, in no small way because many folks who have only ignored and maligned his good name forced his hand, THERE ARE PEOPLE ON THIS WEBSITE STILL HATING ON HIM. I have never seen such a degree of ungrateful, ignorant disrespect as exists on this site today on that score, AND THAT INCLUDES THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2004.

Haters? GET THIS THROUGH YOUR COLLECTIVE HEAD: HERE'S YOUR MAN. HE'S ALWAYS BEEN HERE. THERE SHOULDN'T BE A WAY FOR YOU TO DENY IT ANYMORE. GIVE IT UP. SUPPORT HIS EFFORT. SUPPORT JOHN KERRY.

[helderheid]

57. I got your back, John!!

[BlueIris]

58. Aw. Sniffle.

Good to see not everyone has head-up-rear-end disease.

Go smack some sense into the haters, couldja?

[helderheid]

63. THWAAAAAAAAP!

[radio4progressives]

59. When i read this earlier, I hadn't realized Kerry was in Switzerland

as we speak. He's attending an event that may be important, but it isn't nearly as important as this matter to the American people, and the future of our democracy. So for Kerry to call for a filibuster from Switzerland (a procedure which really requires his physical and mental presence) when he should be here doing the arm twisting and everything else it takes to manage a victory against all odds, strikes me as just a tad bit disingenuous at best. I mean really, he can't do this while in Switzerland - he's leaving way too much to chance.

He's going to have to a turn around immediately before i buy that he's committed to this heart and soul.

[rsinger]

62. If he's in Switzerland then iI fear it's just a show...

How depressing to hear that he's not even in Washington. There's no way he can pull this off from the other side of the Atlantic. I mean I'm thrilled that he's doing it but how serious is he if he's not here to do what needs to be done.

[LittleClarkie]

67. Regardless of where he is, just being loud and proud

is enough for the right wing to have already started to attack him. I could understand folks questioning it when it was just a petition. But he's gotten the attention of the media now. There's no taking it back.

Considering where Kerry is, this might be why Kennedy jumped in too. He might be our arm twister. If so, he deserves equal kudos. But even so, he wasn't the one who got the ball rolling. Kerry was. So what if it was by remote. It's still rolling, and he's still gonna get bruised by it.

Something just occurred to me. Is this the second year in a row that Bush didn't go to Davos? Did he send anyone of import this time? He mostly ignored the conference last year, iirc.

[proud patriot]

60. aye

I'll stand by him .

[AnotherMother4Peace]

64. Signed his petition & am donating - He's a true patriot.

[bigwillq]

65. I'm with Kerry on this one.

I'm glad he is fighting this issue.

[Guaranteed]

66. No prob. He'll come out on top because of this, though.

A year or two down the line, it's gonna be the cowards getting slapped around- HARD. We've seen this before.