Dear Senators

Dear Senators
by georgia10
Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 09:26:53 AM PDT
Tomorrow, you will vote on whether to end debate on the nomination of Samuel Alito. In an atmosphere where too many mask their intentions in platitudes and coy terms, allow me to blunt. You dropped the ball. Before the hearings, you failed to establish a clear strategy approaching this nomination. At the hearings, you tried, but failed to convey to the American people how disastrous Alito's record really is. After the hearings, it became each member for himself. And finally, you let the media confirm this man without question.

You dropped the ball, and it would have been easy for us to heed the Republican call and give up. But when you dropped the ball, Senators, we picked it up. The second you approached us for help, we pounced into action. We leaped to action not because we were sure of victory. We are the reality-based community, after all. We know the numbers are against us. We know the chances of a successful filibuster are near zero. But we also know that if you don't stand up for your beliefs when so much is at stake, rhetoric of opposition rings painfully hollow.