F'ing Alito

Filibustering Alito, that is. TomPaine.com has a good piece on why this is an "extraordinary circumstance." Here's a snippet; go read the rest.

It's precisely because Alito's presence on the court is so potentially damaging that Democrats and moderate Republicans have a responsibility to challenge his nomination through every possible mechanism, including the filibuster. Republican leaders who try to eliminate it as a political option need to be branded, along with every senator who supports them, as embodying a politics that believes in nothing except its own right to power.