Dems don’t abide by the same rules Repubs do: The Senate voted 58-42 to confirm Alito. Compare that to the near unanimous votes Dem Presidential nominees get.
Thanks for making my point. Guess I should have said the Republicans "rubber-stamp" nominees. The Dims fight. Of course it takes a 60% Senate to fillibuster, but when the Repubbies have had it, they rarely used it. Go along to get along is their wimp political mentality. I believe that the Pubbies are still scared from the clinton/newt economic fights that shut down the fedgov (which I loved) back in the 90's. Clinton was able to successfully blame it on the Republican House, even though we all knew that it was Clinton who would not sign certain bills.
I don't think the GOP has ever recovered from that PR disaster that the Repubbies didn't fight. Women, children, homeless, and disabled were going to die in the streets was Clinton's and his Dim enablers' cry!
Obama has learned well from Billy "stained dress" Clinton. Class warfare works! I won't be surprised if that gets him 4 more years, even with our stagnant economy.
This nation has reached the tipping point because of too many "gimmes" wanting too much from the "producers". It's happening all over Europe and we're next in line.