DLC says do not filibuster

[Meeker Morgan]

From their official site:

A Principled Stand On Alito

When the president hastily nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court last fall, with no visible bipartisan consultation, we commented that he had chosen to divide rather than unite the Senate and the country in his haste to placate conservatives unhappy with his earlier nomination of Harriet Miers. Nothing that's come to light since then has changed our opinion: Judge Alito is a decent and well qualified jurist, but represents a large step towards a conservative ideological reshaping of the Supreme Court at a time when it is teetering on the edge of a variety of decisions that could erode or overturn important constitutional rights.

Nobody can claim surprise that President Bush acted in this way; he has repeatedly promised to name justices in the mold of conservative judicial activists Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas (and perhaps Chief Justice Roberts, if his alignment with Scalia and Thomas on the landmark decision on Oregon's assisted-suicide statute is any indication).

And Samuel Alito appears to fill the bill. Despite his artfully expressed testimony in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it's clear Judge Alito embraces an "originalist" view of constitutional interpretation, along with the recent, unbalanced conservative tendency to police congressional powers but not executive powers.

Democrats in the Senate, and elsewhere, have no obligation to help Bush redeem this divisive campaign pledge. Given Judge Alito's long and consistent record of conservative activism on and off the bench, it is prudent to oppose this confirmation as a matter of principle, reflecting the gravity of a lifetime appointment to a closely divided Court.

(more) http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=131&subid=192&contentid=253692

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[Sal316]

1. Sal316 says: DLC can kiss my ass.

Jackasses.

THEY are what's wrong with our party. Unprincipled, spineless jackasses.

[unkachuck]

19. I'm willing....

....to offer up my a$$ for some DLC kissing too....if they wash their lips first....I know where they've been....

[EFerrari]

2. Who? I can't hear you.

:)

[KyndCulture]

3. DLC? Yeah I'll second the kiss my ass comment! nt.

[IndianaGreen]

4. DLC: "we do not think Senate Democrats should try to filibuster"

Tired of the same old DLC shit?

[joemurphy]

5. What has "go along and get along" gotten us with respect to

the Bush administration? This administration is ignoring the law, torturing people, denying U.S. citizens the right to counsel, kidnapping innocent people abroad and sending them to foreign countries where they are being beaten, tortured, and killed. They have involved us in a ruinous war for false reasons. They have created more terrorists because of their conduct of the war. They have tolerated massive graft and corruption. They have been the most secretive administration in American history. Their mismanagement of Katrina has cost us an American city. Then there's Enron. Plamegate. Abramoff. Libby. Delay. And now Alito.

Where is the "L" in the DLC? Where's the "Leadership"?

Why must the grassroots of the party do the fighting while the DLC, as usual, offers no effective leadership or resistance?

90% of Democrats oppose Alito. Why no filibuster? Do we just go belly up and whimper while the Alpha-dog puts a radical on the Court? With respect to the Supreme Court, the future is now!

[MannyGoldstein]

6. DLC - The Other Republican Party (TM)

[EFerrari]

11. Darn Loyal Conservatives n/t

[mcscajun]

7. mcscajun to the DLC: Go Cheney Yourselves!

"Using this weapon now would stake Democrats to the implausible argument that Alito's inevitable confirmation is the most egregious act of the Bush administration and the Republican Senate, going into a critical midterm election."

IMPLAUSIBLE ARGUMENT????

:wtf:

Okay, it may not be THE most egregious act, but it's certainly the most Recent egregious act in a long line of 'em, and they must be stopped SOMEwhere!

[Jade Fox]

8. I just sent them an email....

much good that it may do.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Hmmmm.Ask me if I care what the DLC says.

NO! I don't and they can all GO TO HELL. They have DESTROYED THIS PARTY.

[Individualist]

10. DLC: republican enablers

They want a one party government, and the party they want is NOT the democratic party.

[understandinglife]

12. DLC = Karl Rove's second string players.

Peace.

[w13rd0]

13. The DLC in regards the "activist base"...

..."the key is getting their time and money, but ignoring everything they have to say"...

Hey DLC...kiss my f'n ass...

[Cocoa]

14. that's at least the 2nd time that 5-day-old article has been posted today

the day after the DLC posted that, Kerry announced his filibuster, and since then several other DLCers have lined up behind him, including the DLC's main man Joe Lieberman.

The DLC is irrelevant, despite people's attempt to revive them as a boogey-man.

[mcscajun]

20. Now there's a truism: "The DLC is irrelevant."

That's pretty much how I see them most days. :)

[Walt Starr]

15. The DLC: Finding newer and better ways to snatch defeat from the jaws

of victory.

[MelissaB]

16. Fuck the DLC!

For the same reason and others, we do not think Senate Democrats should try to filibuster this confirmation. A filibuster is certain to fail; indeed, the Senate is certain to respond to a filibuster by outlawing them permanently in judicial confirmations. Using this weapon now would stake Democrats to the implausible argument that Alito's inevitable confirmation is the most egregious act of the Bush administration and the Republican Senate, going into a critical midterm election.

[MelissaB]

17. Recommending to expose these assholes for who and what they are

yet again.

[radio4progressives]

18. the dlc can go EFF themselves! these vichy freaks are OUT!

throw 1984 at them, tell these bastards to go Filibuster that!

[B Calm]

21. The bastards are turning my party into the ASS KISSER'S party!

The DLC is the problem!

[DemGirl7]

22. BITE ME DLC !!!

I'm willing to bet that these assholes are going to say the same shit when the next Supreme Court Justice retires which I fear will happen very soon. These assholes repersent true democrats as much as the republican party does. I wish these assholes would just do us all a favor and join the republican party, because they are not true democrats.

[WinkyDink]

23. DLC = Determined Loser Council

I'll stick with the Democratic Party.

[sendero]

24. If there was ever a perfect contrary indicator..

.... it would have to be the DLC.

I was for the filibuster, but now that they are against it, I am rabidly for it.

[low_phreaq]

25. So now DLC supports a filibuster, possibly unofficially?

I think I found where they seem to have given in to the idea:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x267032