FOX NEWS REFUSES TO RUN PAID ADS ON ALITO. YOU CAN WATCH THE AD HERE

I don't know if Fox is refusing to run the People For the American Way ads about Scalito because they show what a right-wing kook he is or because they remind Americans what a bumbling catastrophe George Bush is. But the ads are pretty good and I urge you to take a look here.

Alito is a super aggressive far right judicial activist with an extreme ideological agenda. BushCo-- along with media allies and its propaganda team, like Fox-- is doing the best it can to pass him off as something he isn't. As they tend to do, the Bush Regime is lying about Alito. If moderates buckle under to right-wing pressure and confirm this maniac, he'll be doing grievous damage to our country long after Bush and Cheney are just a terrible memory of the worst administration in American history. I have two senators in my state, California, who I feel confident will do what they can to keep Alito from being confirmed. Most Republicans are more than willing to pander to the extreme right and confirm a judge who will be eager to do the bidding of the religionist kooks and of corporate interests-- the 2 hallmarks of Alito's very ideological career. However, there are a handful of Senators who might be persuadable when it comes to forgetting their partisan inclinations and, instead, doing what's right for the American people. If you live in Maine, you have two, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (both trying to cultivate images as mainstream moderates). Ditto for Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. On the Democratic side, the two rightist Nelsons (Florida and Nebraska) are probably both leaning towards confirmation. Other unreliable right-of-center Democrats who need to be called and written to by their constituents include Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), Herb Kohl (Wisconsin) and Mark Pryor (Arkansas). And forget McCain. For him a chance to vote for someone as extreme as Alito is just another opportunity to reassure right-wing ideologues that he's one of them.