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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Monday, October 31, 2005

Yeah what he said... Bring it locos

From THE LEFT COASTER

Democrats: Make GOP Efforts To Install Scalito Through Nuclear Option A 2006 Campaign Issue

The simple truth is that the Alito nomination should not only please the wing nuts, but it should also please the Democrats as well. In fighting this battle, which was waged at this time to take our attention away from last Friday’s indictment of Scooter Libby, Democrats will need to have the right framing in fighting this battle, as Jeffrey Feldman notes over at Daily Kos. Such framing includes reminding voters that Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were more enlightened with their high court judicial selections than Bush, who has shown that he was quick to jettison Harriet Miers due to evangelical pressure in favor of a conservative male who supports positions that Miers would abhor. After all, it was just last week that Bush was touting how much of a groundbreaking woman Miers was in her profession. Bush told us that the Miers pick would be great for the court because she didn’t have a judicial resume, but instead had real life experiences as a woman breaking down barriers. Yet this week, Bush has forgotten all those words in touting the long conservative judicial track record of Alito, who seemingly takes the position that women have their place, as second-class citizens, barefoot and pregnant.

The American Taliban has jerked their strings on George W. Bush, and now Bush has given them a candidate they wanted all along. The talk of a filibuster by Democrats has yet to start, and there is the threat of the nuclear option already being unsheathed by some inside the Taliban. To Democrats, I say: don’t run from these threats; embrace them. Tell the media that it is time for this country to have a debate about the rights of women both at home and in the workplace; it is time to have a debate about privacy; and it is time to have a debate about whether this country will move forward together into an enlightened future of healing and policies grounded in this country’s basic values, or move backwards into the world of submission and repression so comfortable to the likes of George W. Bush, James Dobson, and now Samuel Alito.

To wit: Alito would overturn the Family and Medical Leave Act; Alito has ruled in favor of race-based and disability discrimination; he would overturn Roe v. Wade; and for the topper, he ruled that there was nothing wrong with the strip-searching of a ten year-old girl who wasn’t the subject of a search warrant.

A president with a 39 percent approval rating doesn’t get to stack the courts with narrow-minded ideologues. If the GOP Senate blows up the filibuster to install another conservative Catholic male, Democrats should make it clear that voters, especially women and the youth vote, will be reminded of this every day between now and November 2006. As Democrats hang the Social Security privatization effort around the necks of incumbent GOP senators and representatives next year with senior voters, they should now be vocal about hanging the Alito vote and filibuster battle around the necks of vulnerable GOP senators with women and younger voters as well.

So GOP, you want to threaten the nuclear option? Bring it on.

Steve Soto

Thank you

From John Alter from Newsweek

The good news about the president's bad week is that even his conservative backers are no longer willing to keep quiet when they think he's wrong. And Fitzgerald was so impressive that the normal White House response—to savage the critic—was not an option this time. So Karl Rove survives, but the fear he stoked is easing. Four years after September 11, we're beginning to get our democracy back.

I hope we do get our democracy back and look back at this time in shame and disgrace. So a big shirt popping Thank you mr. Fitzgerald... maybe your the Great Gastby after all.

Sunday, October 30, 2005

Halloween Pictures

Ciuapilli and the Family's Carved Pumpkin.

Friday, October 28, 2005

Bring it on

Yes just like the movie just not fighting for some cheerleading trophy. I'm talking about the direction of this country. I think all the people that are fed up with this Administration have there mind made up since Katrina (by the way now Florida knows what its like in a non-election year.) SO with the Miers nomination done for, what's next, the Holy war the Conservatives have been picking and praying for for 30 years. Its coming upon us and we need to be ready, the right was angry at Bush for not kicking the country while it was down. So they smelled blood and have made their kill but it will never satisfy the beast and like some devoted terrorist I know of, the ends justify the means even if it means showing the Glorious leader as more of a puppet than before. WE PROGRESSIVE - RATIONAL people of the world must not let the RIGHT WIN. They may get charged up and spew all the hate they have but we must be victorious if not then a whole generation will suffer the way many of our countrymen have for the past 5 years. NOW more than ever the Right KNOWS they have BUSH in their pocket. BUT it the American people at large the other 80% of people in this country that must stand up when the extremist judge come to pass. The battle to retake this country's control began with the last election but this will be the most important battle since then and possibly for a good while till 08. May god help us.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Wedding prep.

Tia Lety and Tio Tony helping Ciuapilli prepare.

Party Smore's

Eating burnt Marshmellows with Ciuapilli

Candle menace

Amy Scott Williams

I want them to be this big.

Amy's reaction to Mari's insitences that the cake is all hers'

Mari welcoming Amy to the pre-party

Four Generations of women Ciuapilli, Marisol, Teresa, Mercedes who's Ciuapilli's great-grandmother.

Ciuapilli getting ready to party for Mari's Birthday.

Monday, October 10, 2005

Thoughts

there's been a lot of pictures up lately but I am going to try and write a bit more in this space. I'm stuck in a rut where all I want to do is sleep but I don't even dream well anymore. Family is good, the wedding was a much needed reminder of good times. My blogging friend Eleamary did not get pick as the Mexican Rep for the area in the mid-west ohio region but she should have. but from that it got me thinking that I need to start working to change this world again. I feel like I've given up on it but with so much death and destruction both from nature and man made we need to work hard to make the time we have here on earth just a little bit better.
in tuscon ... going to bed now.