And, About that Alito Guy

It occurs to me that one might not be all that very surprised that Alito was confirmed. While lots of folks are a-froth about it (and I am, too, because it just plain sucks for women and for those who give half a damn about our country and our constitution), I’m not at all surprised that Democrats capitulated on this one. The problem isn’t so much a partisan one, as a lack of partisanship. Yes, we can point our fingers (remember, it’s the middle one that counts!) at Democrats, complaining that they don’t have backbones. That’s likely true. What is also true is that they are capital P Politicians first and foremost, and in that sense, they live cheek-by-jowl with their Republican brothers and sisters–cut from the same cloth, as it were.