Since you're able to read this, how about letting the rest of us in on it?
This was the worst week for Democrats in the whole of the Bush Administration. They cannot win at the ballot box, they cannot win in the courts, and they don't have the power to rally their base and raise money without doing these stupid radical things.
Harry Reid isn't smart enough to do what was done today, he simply followed orders.
Don't underestimate how much the Dems lost when Fitzgerald didn't indict Rove. That was their whole universe. They staked everything on that, and they lost. Then with Alito, the Dems got knocked right out of the news cycle, with their agenda in the toilet.
So, they threw a hail-mary today, and it almost scored. It didn't. It didn't, because they were hoping to get slapped down, so that in their outrage, they could just walk out and stop Senate business. That is still likely to be their plan. When the time comes, probably when Republicans NUKE their asses, they will just walk out and not allow Senate business to move forward.
This is the only way they can stop the Republican agenda from moving forward now. They are going to go on strike. What they want is to create a situation where Republicans go medieval on them, and give them an excuse to walk. Republicans were smart to just let it go.