- If you have a cell phone, sign up for People at the American Way's Mass Immediate Response site. This way, you'll be able to receive text message action items instantly as events break. (If you signed up during the nuclear option fight, you'll need to re-sign up.)
- Also sign up with the Save the Court, another PFAW website devoted specifically to this issue.
- Recruit friends and family members to the cause.
- Write to the President, telling him he should choose a consensus candidate to replace O'Connor.
- Contact your Senators to tell them the same thing.
If you have a blog, please post these action items on your site. If you don't, e-mail them to your like-minded buddies and relatives.
Much should be made of O'Connors resignation letter. She will stay until her replacement is confirmed and she has requested that Bush not rush to nominate. O'Connor's letter can be seen as a plea from the Judicial Branch for more advice before consent.
ReplyDeleteBush is between a rock and a hard place on this one. The Christian Right thinks it is owed and it's pay-up time. Mainstream conservatives may not want to write the check. If there is any hesitation in a nomination when Bush returns it will be seen as a betrayal by the Fundies.