No successful appointments to the Supreme Court during my conscious lifetime have been approved without a substantial bi-partisan majority of the Senate. Alito will be the exception. I am sad that Bush couldn’t have chosen one of the hundreds of qualified judges who would have gotten 80 or 90 Senate votes. Justice Ginsberg was recommended to then president Clinton by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.

Despite one of the most aggressive well-financed opposition movements demanding a filibuster, Alito will be approved in a Fristesque vote. Shockingly, Robert Byrd is one of two Democrat senators who said they would not support filibuster. The other is the junior Colorado Senator Ken Salazar who narrowly beat his primary challenger as a result of an organized union movement that he has now betrayed.

My frustration, and resignation is well expressed among the 628 comments here.

The Dems better wake up

I’ve been a registered Democrat my whole life, but I’m so fed up with the party I can’t hardly stand it. The Democratic party lost it’s spine a long time ago. Only a handful of truly progressive Democrats event exist.

The party better wake up, because they are losing their base.

I consider this more important than the Nov elections. Now, it’s 40 more years of a ultra-conservative Supreme. They’ve got bare minimum – Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito who will all vote the same every single time. Domestic spying, ok; 2-term Presidency, out the door. Vote Reform; no.

Benedict Nelson Selling his country out for money.

I called the DC office, took three tries to get through. Told them that I’d never vote for him again for the rest of my life, and they could kiss goodbye any chance of seeing money from me or my family.

Maybe I am a freak. Maybe the Right know something I don’t. Maybe they see a better world when the president is above the law, and women will surrender their reproductive decisions to men in power.

Somebody please tell me how that world will be better than it is now.