As predicted and encouraged - the President wants a knock down drag out over this supreme court seat now - and he will get it. Note the many conservatives at least predicting it as a Presidential strategy of changing nationsl focus. Many of those conservatives will blithely go along with a radical departure when the fight inevitably takes us to the point of a filibuster.
As Gordon Brown noted in Slate recently - this is no Saclia. Alito looks much worse. There is no libertarian streak in Alito. he seems almost purely an authoritarian old Prussian school conservative, a Bismarkian conservative. The kind of conservative that created beuracracy as a way to more efficiently run a big govenment in support of an authoritarian ruler. The kind of conservative few democrats will relish and enough will detest to filibuster. If Alito isn't filibustered - who would the filibuster be saved for - it would rarely again be even an effective bluff.
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