On Alito

Hey Democrats - give it up. You had a chance early on to control the message, to focus on Alito's lockstep support of what is now acknowledged by a majority of the public as an overreaching-yet-neglectful executive branch. You could have driven home his corporatist leanings and what that meant to the average citizen. You could have assumed the high road in your rhetoric, keeping your statements calm, concerned and consistent. But, you didn't. Instead, you were combatitive, disjointed, and focused on issues like Alito's marginal association with CAP (about which the public didn't care), and abortion (which is too complex an issue for the public to fully grasp).

Now, every time you open your mouth in opposition to Alito, you chip away at the momentum we had going into the mid-terms.

Bush was always going to pack the courts with conservatives. Accept it. Move on, and focus on taking back the Senate or White House (preferably both) in time to manage Justice Stevens' replacement. That's the really big one, and it's coming soon. The man's 85 years old. Ginsburg - at 72 - is no spring chicken either. My guess is that our next President is going to pick two Supreme Court justices, and it's going to be a doozy of a battle.

Does anyone know if Scalia's family is known for their longevity? He's 70 this year...