My letter to Russ Feingold - Democratic Underground

eek

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Thu Jan-12-06 03:20 PM
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My letter to Russ Feingold

Dear Senator Feingold,

Please continue to push against the confirmation of Judge Alito.
He is shady, evasive and holds the key to quite a Pandora's box full of tricks to further erode our democracy.

This man can provide opinions on most issues with pending legislation but not on RvsW ?
Worse still: the Senate is apparently willing to take a stone wall as an answer.

Most of the Senate is clearly out to protect their jobs rather than do their jobs.

Please filibuster, if that is the best way to keep this man out of the Supreme Court.

I wish the rest of the Democrats would show the spine that you do.

Thank you, etc

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CTyankee

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Thu Jan-12-06 04:07 PM
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1. I am waiting for a leader to emerge from the Dem Party

and I washoping it would be Russ. We need someone in the hall of power who can command some press to go out on a limb if need be to rally support around a filibuster move. Even if it loses, we need someone to stand up and fight.

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eek

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Thu Jan-12-06 04:22 PM
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2. the man has been fretty darned cojone-laden

i hope he can convince others to be.

I also wish that he and mcCain would both jump parties and run together as a ticket.

That kind of firepower could possibly make that Third Way Party so many of us wish for.

Hey: one can dream, right?

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CTyankee

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Thu Jan-12-06 07:21 PM
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3. Well, McCain is anti-choice and that's a deal breaker

with a whole lot of Dems. Of course, if he has a "change of heart" after considerable "soul searching" then we'll see...

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eek

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Fri Jan-13-06 11:44 AM
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4. I'm certainly no McCain lockstepper but

he did turn around on global warming stuff after he started having big chunks of his skin tremoved .
so maybe he isn't implacable.

i just think it is a "brand name" a;ready and that it actually could pull a bunch of people into a new party if they had the creativity to start one.

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Jackpine Radical

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Sun Jan-15-06 07:56 PM
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9. McCain is no progressive.

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catmother

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Fri Jan-13-06 01:25 PM
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6. don't trust McCain. i'm from arizona. he had me fooled for a

Edited on Fri Jan-13-06 01:28 PM by catmother

while but beware. McCain will never leave the republican party. in 2000 he could have run as an independent and probably would have become president, but he is totally loyal to the republcan party.

on edit: mccain has a very bad temper. he got so angry at a meeting that he passed out. he also slipped and referred to the vietnamese as "gooks". do you want someone with his temper near the red button?

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TayTay

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Fri Jan-13-06 12:13 PM
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5. Didn't Russ vote FOR Roberts

stating that he thinks the PResident ought to get the nominees he wants? Is Russ voting against Alito, cuz he voted FOR Roberts.

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LynneSin

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Fri Jan-13-06 01:48 PM
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7. And Ashcroft - Feingold I worry about

People comment about Biden and Feinstein but I have more faith in those two than I do with Feingold. He has actually supported previous nominees, DiFi and Biden have not

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blm

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Sun Jan-15-06 07:28 PM
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8. But, now that he's running for president, I expect him to filibuster this

one.

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jumperto77

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Sun Jan-15-06 10:36 PM
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10. that will never happened

book it.

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bornskeptic

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Sun Jan-15-06 10:55 PM
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11. Yes and no

Yes, he voted for Roberts, but no, he did not say it was because he thought the President should get the person he wanted. That statement was made with regard to cabinet positions, not judicial positions. In fact, he has voted against several appellate court nominees, including Owen and Rodgers-Brown. His statement on why he decided to vote for Roberts is here:
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/statements/05/09/2005929CR.html

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