I sent the DSCC the following letter and used their pre-paid envelope to do it.

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I am shocked and horrified that the Senate Democrats failed to filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court despite the fact that there are more than enough Democrats in the Senate to accomplish the task.

They should be ashamed of themselves. Every Senator who voted against the Alito filibuster violated his or her oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. There is no excuse for this dishonorable and unpatriotic behavior.

It also represents a failure of the Democratic Party as institution. The Democratic Party constantly pays lip-service to its core constituencies while caving to the Religious Right and corporate donors. Symbolic votes by some Democrats against Alito are not enough. The party as an institution has an inescapable patriotic duty to do everything in its power to block dishonest and dangerous extremists like Alito from the US Supreme Court.

How many times will the Democratic Party betray me as a gay man, an atheist, a liberal, and an American? How many times will so many Democrats kick me in the teeth and then expect me to say “thank you” and write them checks? Do you really think I want a penny of my money to go to supporting people like Robert Byrd who embraced many of the KKK's core values (e.g. racism, sexism, homophobia, and Christian supremacy) by voting to confirm Alito?

Instead, I will give money to Green Party candidates who are running against Senators who did not vote for the Alito filibuster.

Please take me off of your mailing list.

Former Ku Klux Klan member Senator Robert Byrd has officially disavowed the KKK for years. Yet, there have been published reports that Byrd will oppose a filibuster against Samuel Alito and may actually vote to confirm Alito to the Supreme Court.

This is disturbing. Alito embodied the racist, sexist, and homophobic values of the Ku Klux Klan throughout his adult life. Even worse, Alito often has used his position as a federal judge to violate statutes and the US Constitution in order to promote those bigoted values.

If Byrd does not support the filibuster of Alito, he will be making it clear that he may no longer be a card-carrying member of the KKK, but that a part of him will always cherish the KKK's values.