ALITO AND THE ‘SPHERE….The lefty blogosphere has spent the last week trying to fire up support for a filibuster of Samuel Alito. This campaign was never likely to succeed, and today it failed as expected. But that’s not all: it failed by the embarrassingly lopsided margin of 72-25.
I’m glad the filibuster took place, because even in failure it puts a marker down for future court fights. Still, even given the amateurish way that Senate Dems handled it, I expected it to get more than 25 votes. So here’s today’s assignment: In 5,000 words or less, what does this say about the influence of the lefty blogosphere?
