March for Life/Harass Your Senators

This will be my last post until the middle of next week. I'm heading down for the Inaugural and March for Life festivities. Next month, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will bring one of President Bush's filibustered judges to the Senate floor. At that point, we will need to a) get 60 votes for cloture, b) get 51 votes to support a rule change, or c) allow the minority to continue acting like the majority. The Inaugural events are all well and good, but please try to get to Washington to send a message that it is a vibrant social conservative movement that reelected President Bush and increased the Republican majorities, and that it is the social conservatives to whom they are accountable.

If you come to the March, visit your Senators' offices to give them your opinions on the judicial nominations. It's best to visit your home-state Senators, though visits to Senators in influential positions on powerful committees (read Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter) can be very helpful. Although there are longer lists, the top targets for cloture votes and votes to support the rule change are below.

Cloture
1) Sen. Lincoln Chafee (supposed RINO-RI) - has voted for cloture on all nominees
2) Sen. John Warner (RINO-VA) - has voted against cloture on one nominee
3) Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) - has voted for cloture on all but one nominee
4) Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
5) Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
6) Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
7) Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR)

Rule Change
1) Sen. Snarlin' Arlen Specter (RINO-PA or Scotland, nobody's really sure)
2) Sen. Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME)
3) Sen. Susan Collins (RINO-ME)
4) Sen. Lincoln Chafee (RINO-RI)
5) Sen. John Warner (RINO-VA)
6) Sen. John McCain (RINO-AZ)
7) Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY)
8) Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
8) Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE)