ANOTHER LOOK AT THE DEMOCRATS AND ALITO

Okay, so I saw Alito's confirmation as yet another justification for writing off the Democrats. Here's another point of view that I find compelling.

From Hullabaloo courtesy of the Daily Kos, a missive on the meaning of the twenty five senators who did vote to filibuster Alito:

Obama had to choke out his support for a filibuster, but he did it. A calculation was made that he needed to play to the base instead of the punditocrisy who believe that being "bold" is voting with the Republicans. Don't underestimate how much pressure there is to do that, especially for a guy like Obama who is running for King of the Purple. The whole presidential club, including Biden joined the chorus.

The last time we had a serious outpouring from the grassroots was the Iraq War resolution. My Senator DiFi commented at the time that she had never seen anything like the depth of passion coming from her constituents. But she voted for the war anyway. So did Bayh, Biden, Clinton, Dodd, Kerry and Reid. The entire leadership of the party. Every one of them went the other way this time. I know that some of you are cynical about these people (and ,well, they are politicans, so don't get all Claud Rains about it) but that means something. Every one of those people were running in one way or another in 2002 and they went the other way. The tide is shifting. There is something to be gained by doing the right thing.

Click here for the rest.

Very good point. Uplifting, too. Upon reflection, however, it strikes me as nutty that after everything the GOP has gotten away with for the past decade, from the bullshit impeachment of Clinton to the invasion of Iraq, the Democrats aren't fighting harder against them. Yes, these twenty five votes are something of a milestone, but meaningless in terms of things actually happening. It's going to take much much more for the Democrats to convince me that they're interested in anything more than being reelected.

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