They are doing the same thing as the terrorists, only without killing people - desperately trying to change America's mind about Iraq before the elections occur in December. Once the elections take place and the new government asks the U.S. to stay until the country is secure, the Democrats will have nothing to talk about anymore. They thought they had the magic bullet with the Fitzgerald investigations - they thought Fitz would produce a scathing report about a huge WH conspiracy to cover up their "lies" and the public would be repulsed and demand an immediate pullout of the troops. Didn't happen. Now they are desperate to try another way to prove that "Bush lied" before the Iraqi elections make the whole thing moot. Desperate people do desperate things.
Daschle decided on it and spineless Lott fell for it.
They should all be run out of town to go back home to whatever they have the brains to do for a job!!
A Hun suggested in the Hannity thread, that it's quite possible that reid has checked with the not-liberal wing of the democrat party, mainly the 11 democrat Senators that are in strong red States that Bush carried last year, and found that few if any of them were willing to vote against Alito. There may just be something to that. I imagine that the no b.s. version of the conversations was something like this:
Reid: Hello "Democrat Senator from a strong red State", I want you to vote against Alito when he comes to the floor for a vote'
Democrat Senator from a strong red State: Senator Reid, what? Are you kidding me? Do you even KNOW what State I'm from? Sorry. Not gonna happen. Go talk to specter, chaffe, snowe, or collins. I like my job.
And since there are 11 of them, that would easily make it impossible for the dems to come close to defeating Alito, which would be embarrassing since the lib dems already threw the gauntlet down against Alito yesterday, the first few hours after the nomination. I think this idea might just be it. 8) It sure is ironic that it happens the day after Alito is nominated. Some of it I'm sure is sour grapes because they didn't get anyone they wanted in the indictments last week, and what they got Libby for wasn't even remotely connected to the war, or the leak, and he is being indicted for things that happened during and because of the investigation, not before. Had there been no investigation, the actions Libby is being indicted for wouldn't have happened. That's a hard pill for the libs to swallow and they're not happy about it. 8) This is all so funny. They just keep digging that hole deeper and deeper, occasionally sticking their heads up to flip the American people the bird, then go back to digging. Why interfere? Let's let them continue. 8)