DEAR SENATOR WARNER - HOW COULD YOU?
Dear Senator Warner,
What have you done? You do not in any way understand what it cost us citizens, how we sacrificed, to reach a 55-45 Senate majority. Don’t you understand that it was mostly to regain the courts? It was our high-cost victory that you just gave away, not yours.
All the sacrifice in this deal came from the Republicans. All the gain went to the Democrats. And you expect this to retrieve the comity of the Senate? Do you not yet understand the depth of the loss of patriotism and of scruples of the “new” democratic party? Comity will not return. Arranging that is beyond the power of the republicans.
Do you refuse to see that you have not saved the filibuster? It is gone. The democrats will destroy it at their very first, slimmest majority in the Senate. Clearly, they understand what is at stake with the courts far better than Senate republicans do.
It is the right of the majority to shape the courts. We finally, finally have earned the opportunity to do that. You have voluntarily thrown some part of that – we do not yet know how much – into the trash bin.
My concern, from out here, is that you have damaged our ability to hold our base so much with this action that this majority will not last the next election.
The courts concern us so much because of the loss of our children, because of the cultural disaster we are leaving them. While we have made some cultural gains, mostly due to 9/11, the losses are still growing faster than the gains. The culture may well be beyond retrieving. With the courts on the harmful side of the cultural divide, the cultural losses continue to accelerate. How is it that you do not see the size of the change that will be needed in the courts to turn them around? How could you throw away any gains at all that we might have in the courts?
From McCain, who betrays his party and his president on alternate days, whose bilious McCain-Feingold revenge on Bush moved control of elections from the parties to the likes of Soros, I expected no better. But I still can hardly believe it was you, respected more than almost any Senator, whose prestigious presence made all this feasible. How could you do that to us?
Europe has already lost its cultural wars and is dying as a result. It may not last – as Europe – more than 25 years or so. Is that to be our fate too? The cultural war is the ultimate survival war, the one lost when countries commit suicide. How can we win ours unless we gain the courts? Look around you! The world you tried to protect no longer exists. What you gave away to “save” it cost far too much.
Reconsider, Sir, I urge you, whether you should not do whatever you can to reverse our loss.
Sincerely,
(Rev.) Gerry Phelps
What have you done? You do not in any way understand what it cost us citizens, how we sacrificed, to reach a 55-45 Senate majority. Don’t you understand that it was mostly to regain the courts? It was our high-cost victory that you just gave away, not yours.
All the sacrifice in this deal came from the Republicans. All the gain went to the Democrats. And you expect this to retrieve the comity of the Senate? Do you not yet understand the depth of the loss of patriotism and of scruples of the “new” democratic party? Comity will not return. Arranging that is beyond the power of the republicans.
Do you refuse to see that you have not saved the filibuster? It is gone. The democrats will destroy it at their very first, slimmest majority in the Senate. Clearly, they understand what is at stake with the courts far better than Senate republicans do.
It is the right of the majority to shape the courts. We finally, finally have earned the opportunity to do that. You have voluntarily thrown some part of that – we do not yet know how much – into the trash bin.
My concern, from out here, is that you have damaged our ability to hold our base so much with this action that this majority will not last the next election.
The courts concern us so much because of the loss of our children, because of the cultural disaster we are leaving them. While we have made some cultural gains, mostly due to 9/11, the losses are still growing faster than the gains. The culture may well be beyond retrieving. With the courts on the harmful side of the cultural divide, the cultural losses continue to accelerate. How is it that you do not see the size of the change that will be needed in the courts to turn them around? How could you throw away any gains at all that we might have in the courts?
From McCain, who betrays his party and his president on alternate days, whose bilious McCain-Feingold revenge on Bush moved control of elections from the parties to the likes of Soros, I expected no better. But I still can hardly believe it was you, respected more than almost any Senator, whose prestigious presence made all this feasible. How could you do that to us?
Europe has already lost its cultural wars and is dying as a result. It may not last – as Europe – more than 25 years or so. Is that to be our fate too? The cultural war is the ultimate survival war, the one lost when countries commit suicide. How can we win ours unless we gain the courts? Look around you! The world you tried to protect no longer exists. What you gave away to “save” it cost far too much.
Reconsider, Sir, I urge you, whether you should not do whatever you can to reverse our loss.
Sincerely,
(Rev.) Gerry Phelps
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