Senatores Invertebrati

Will Rogers said it best: "I'm not a member of any organized party. I'm a Democrat."

Democrats doubt they can stop Alito - The Boston Globe

No one in the meeting made a case that Alito's nomination represents an ''extraordinary circumstance," the standard that would give Democrats the 41 votes they'd need to sustain a filibuster, said Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat who intends to vote for Alito.

Just what the hell would constitute an extraordinary circumstance? A nominee who bites the heads off of little bunnies then puts their decapitated corpses on pikes on his front lawn facing Mecca?

Richard J. Durbin, the Senate minority whip and a Judiciary Committee member, said it's too soon to tell how many Democrats will vote against Alito, a veteran federal appellate judge. The committee is set to vote on the nomination Tuesday, with debate on the Senate floor likely to conclude by the end of next week.

''There are a lot of Democratic senators who are going to vote no," said Durbin, an Illinois Democrat. ''Whether that's a number that's substantial remains to be seen."

Every single Democrat in the Senate should be voting "no," no questions asked. This one's a no-brainer. Unfortunately, the brain isn't the organ in question in this case.

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