Letters to the Editor
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Slow learners
A filibuster strategy should have been in the works long ago, and when the Republicans responded by threatening to use the nuclear option, the answer should have been: Please do.
I would have called their bluff. Democrats would have stood for something in an organized way, Republicans could have been portrayed as power-hungry bullies, and eventually the Dems would have controlled the Senate with a "no judicial filibuster" rule. (That is a party goal, right, to win back the Senate?) Alito would have been confirmed anyway, but ultimately if one wants a say in who sits on the Supreme Court, it's either through the Presidency or the Senate, and the Dems control neither.
Who's running the Democratic party anyway? Is there a group of party leaders working to build consensus and plotting a strategy to win? It sure doesn't seem like it. Hello? Anyone...? The lights are on, but nobody's home...