Lots of work to do today. With a vote to end debate on the Alito nomination set to happen on Monday, we all need to call our own and other senators to push for a filibuster. To have the thugs nuke the rules of the US Senate is one thing, but to try a filibuster and lose because you’ve been stabbed in the back by your own party, well, that’s something far worse. Say what you want about John Kerry (I’ve said a thing or two myself), he promised to lead a filibuster, and he’s kept his promise. Now we need to let the other Democrats know they can’t turn their backs on him – and us – on this one.

They need to know that standing up to this group of fascists in power isn’t what will get them in trouble – it’s cowering and posturing that will do them in. Giving in to Bush, Frist, Cheney, and their ilk is no different than Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler. Well, Hitler wasn’t satisfied with Poland, and this unholy bunch won’t be satisifed until this nation has been bankrupt in order to line their own pockets, and we’re all living in a Police State, with no right to privacy, no sovereignty over our own bodies, and surviving only by the grace of our corporate masters.

These people have no ethics, they have no shame, and they have no right to be in charge of this country. They must be stopped, and this filibuster is a good first step.