In Search Of The Alito Eight

"And Then There Were Four"

This is the best laugh I have had all day. I have had tears running down my face, seeing the Bolshevik plan to find the eight Democrats who are supposedly against the Alito filibuster, in order to:

URGE THESE SENATORS TO EITHER SUPPORT THE FILIBUSTER
OR ABSTAIN FROM THE CLOTURE VOTE

I discovered the unhinged hysterical Dem. who should have auditioned for the part in 'Fatal Attraction' making a war plan for today to locate, stalk and persuade the 8 Democratic Senators who he says are not "hewing the party line", via Glenn Reynolds who "[hopes] it's not true".

So now all of four hysterical followers get on the phone to the offices, homes, ranches, campaign offices, including the entire senate staff to get hold of these people to give them the message to tow the party line.

The funniest part is not so much the post itself but the comments section where all of four hysterical Bolsheviks congregate, report their activities, and one even bursts into tears harbouring the delusional thought that she has actually persuaded the office of Senator Leahy to abstain from the vote. Hellooooo anybody there?

Thank you to KJLo @ NRO for the best laugh of the day. Of course the joke would not be complete if they did not suggest to use the troops to give them "political cover":

Our theme today is: Lead, Follow, Or Get Out of the Way. In political terms, that's:

EITHER SUPPORT THE FILIBUSTER
OR ABSTAIN FROM THE CLOTURE VOTE,
BUT DON'T GET IN OUR WAY.

SECOND, call the "URGE ABSTENTION" Senators identified immediately below and do the same -- say that you hope they vote NO on cloture this afternoon but if they can't, urge them to ABSTAIN from the cloture vote by visiting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital at 4:30 p.m. Doing so will be just as good as a "no" vote but will give them political cover with their conservative voters back home. Again, call their DC AND District offices. And again, if their staff will commit to a position on cloture and/or abstention, please post a comment here.

Senator Barak Obama, the freshman Democrat, and one of the upcoming stars in the party, clearly being one of the 'Alito Eight' being chased down the halls of the Senate by the Vichy Dems seems to have the only sobering words of the day:

There's one way to guarantee that the judges who are appointed to the Supreme Court are judges that reflect our values. And that's to win elections

It seems that the Vichy Dems should have got up a little earlier I am afraid.

Ed Morrissey is also pretty digusted: "If your cause boils down to tactics such as these, then everyone associated with it should be embarrassed by the connection. Hopefully, an intrepid news crew will wait outside of Walter Reed to see any Democrats inclined to endorse methods such as those urged by this blogger."

Michelle Malkin is liveblogging the meltdown.

Doesn't this post follow on from yesterday's "If You Believe In Nothing You'll Fall For Anything".....

For some calming Dr.Sanity read  "Political Paranoia Of The Left". Second Part can be found here.

This also may be a good time to plug our own Political Teen's new blog called Expose The Left. Good luck Ian. Thank you to Michelle Malkin for the tip, and for her never ending support so generously given to us all.

Related on ATB:

The D Stands For Defeat
Cry Wolf Whilst Pointing To A Hamster
Alito The Radical
Daily Kos Is A Mouthpiece For Kerry's Campaign
It's About The 2008 Election Stupid
The D Stands For Defeat
Alito 'The Untouchable
Alito's Justice Will Prevail
The Ship Of Fools
Joining Forces In Scalitovision 2005

Comments

[Alexandra]

Vichydems,

Thanks for popping by.

I think you misunderstood that part. You asked your readers to report to you in the comments section and these were the numbers that reported back. I did not say that this is the amount of visitors you have had, as all experienced bloggers know, much like my site the amount of comments does not always reflect the amount of readers.

But when you specifically ask them to do something and four respond, that is a different matter. For example in my challenge to the blogosphere A Challenge To The Blogosphere: 'The Ten Worst Americans' List I asked the readers to specifically do something and whilst the post generated at the end some 150 000 hits the response was measured within the main body of the text, where I list the bloggers who posted one, and in the comments and trackbacks to their own posts, all of which reflects who bothered to do something about it.

All I reported on is the amount of your readers that have demonstrated to you what they have done in the way you asked them to. I am not sure where you get your astronomic figures of 50 000 phone calls, but it is not for me to question.

As for your site being six days old, I would not be basking too much in the 7 400 for the day glory, and concentrate on consistency for many months not a single day, to come.

Getting the left wired up for sound is the easiest task in the blogosphere, getting them to come back and read or even remember who you are the next day, is altogether another.

[Thersites]

Much as I appreciate the link boosting VichyDems in Google's search rankings, and am glad I could be a source of amusement, I did, in the interests of fairness and balance, and sure that you value truth above all else, want to correct one misimpression:

You mentioned that four folks hang out at VichyDems. Actually, the final hit tally for Monday (the day of the filibuster) was over 7,400 -- not bad for a site I created only six days earlier! And the best reports I can get estimate that the site generated between 10,000 and 50,000 total phone calls to Senators, resulting in Alito drawing the second-lowest number of votes for confirmation in history, and -- which was our primary goal all along -- starting the process of waking up the Democratic caucus that they need to stop pandering to the right and start paying attention to their base.

Now, you won on Alito. We all knew you would. But when a six-day-old site can cause tens of thousands of phone calls demanding that the Democratic party honor its base the way the Republican party honors its base, you've got to know something's afoot. Foolish of us? Maybe. But was it foolish of the right to demand the Republicans move to the right in the 60s, or did that pay off for you in the end?

Anyway, thanks for the plug. Any publicity is good publicity, and your helps.

Best regards,
Thersites