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Alito Hearings Have Begun Democrats Should Fight This Fight Harder Than They've Ever Fought Before
We all know what's at stake here. It doesn't look good. And with traitors like Lautenberg in the Democratic party, Alito's appointment seems inevitable.
However, if Alito is defeated, Bush would sooner take up Quantum Mechanics than waste time finding another anti-abortion activist to nominate. So let's be realistic and look at what the Democrats must do now, and what they must do once Alito (or other anti-abortionist) is confirmed.
Now: Senate Democrats must fight, and fight hard.
Forget your pride, guys, and give it all you got.
I don't care if it is a losing battle. The more
memorable the fight, the more it will benefit
the DNC in the long run.
Get Ted Kennedy up there. Make sure his blood
pressure is especially high that day, so that his
face can turn four or five extra shades of red.
So that it may become even puffier than usual
during his shouting matches with Senate Repugs.
Make it a spectacle. Give Limbaugh et al material
for their petty radio show "humor." Let Ann "Schadenfreude" Coulter cream her size .5/giraffe-length Guccis. Give Shemp Hannity's double-digit mind something besides Family Circle to chuckle at. Let the right be the ones to burn the event into America's collective memory.
Once Alito (or other anti-abortionist) is confirmed: all Democrats must remind American women who fought for them.
If the Democrats fight in the most spectacular fashion possible, if they exploit the right wing's shamelessness as described above, then -- starting this year -- all they'd need to do come election time is pull out the video of Senate Democrats fighting, tooth and nail, against the appointment of an anti-abortion justice. Run tape of an obviously passionate Edward Kennedy confronting Alito, followed by a clip of Limbaugh mocking Kennedy, video of Michael Wiener Savage (from his twelve-day stint on MSNBC) calling the left "babykillers," or a close-up of Charlat An Coulter's Adam's apple gamboling about as she/he/it blasts out her classic baritone belligerence. End it all with some simple data about the dangers to women when abortion is outlawed. Even Joe Lieberman would "approve this message."
Sacrificial lamb?
Let's dream for a moment and suppose Roe v Wade is never overturned. It would still work. For years to come. An Alito/other anti-abortionist appointment will keep the prospect of losing Roe v Wade a much-visited topic. (At least until the evangelicals dwindle away - not a bad tradeoff.) The inevitable appointment of someone who even looks anti-abortionist can work for the DNC if it plans accordingly. The key is they have to fight. Hard.
Let Rump Leakage et al cry, "look how emotional they are!" Let the immediate headlines read, "Democrats Defeated by Alito." Let Bush trumpet the victory as his own. Let the religious right claim the country, after 30+ years, is "back on the right track." None of that gloating shit will last very long. Not this year.
The magnitude of Republican corruption in 2006 is greater than anything since Nixon's day. Shit, Bush wishes all he had to deal with was another Iran-Contra, or a Savings and Loan scandal. If nothing else, the NSA wiretap revelations and La Cosa Abramoffo by themselves should easily and quickly eclipse any Alito "victory." What matters is the fight, not the post-fight celebration.
We can't stop hoping for the best, yet we have to prepare for the worst. Especially since, by this point, the worst seems eternally more likely to pass than the best. So long as the battle against Alito, successful or unsuccessful, is a memorable one, Democrats can come away from this national backslide with the tools to eventually get us back on the right track, and ensure it never happens again.
