Alitio, Scalito, Schmalito

No link. Just an impression from the day's news: Alito will generate more heat than Roberts, but will cruise to confirmation. They know now how to beat the Borking. Don't act like Bork. No sloppy little beard; no arrogant spouting off; no impatience; no rudeness. The Dems can make all kinds of accusations. They already have, but this guy is John Roberts times two. They can ask all the questions they want, and he'll tell them the same thing. Remember Joe Biden's whining and playing at Perry Mason? Ted Kennedy's direct assault, denouncing the nominee without asking any real questions? Schumer's tasteless moronic arguments and pandering to feminists? Feinstein's schoolmarm lecture? This is likely to be more of an endurance test than anything else. Everybody said John Roberts was a great pick, but Alito is John Roberts with more experience on the bench.

We'd love to see a filibuster get smacked down, but I think the Dems are too smart to try it without the votes, unless their big donors put too much pressure on them. I'm sure that Barbara Boxer will try, but nobody takes her seriously anymore.

Now if only Stevens will throw in the towel, and the right wing can keep its mouth shut.

Update: The Boston Globe reports:

As a senior at Princeton University, [24 years ago! - ed.] ]Samuel A. Alito Jr. chaired an undergraduate task force that recommended the decriminalization of sodomy, accused the CIA and the FBI of invading the privacy of citizens, and said discrimination against gays in hiring ''should be forbidden."

Who cares? He WENT TO PRINCETON! He's an elite!

The Democrats are now using the revolt over the Miers nomination to portray Alito as more right wing than he is. And the Gallup poll reports that Alito's polls resemble Miers'.