I do have to applaud President Bush's recent strategy to try to swing things back in his favor again, it is actually quite brilliant. The first thing he needed to do is win back his hard-core right wing-nuts that he alienated with his choice of a woman for the Supreme Court. Now he'll have them fighting overtime for Alito (who is about as out of the mainstream as Bush could find).

Next he needs to divert the public's attention away from his corrupt and incompetent administration, and starting a fight in the Senate is the perfect way to divert attention. With Miers, all the Democrats had to do was shut up and let the entire GOP self-destruct. Unfortunately, Democrats now are being drawn into a fight (that we'll probably end up losing anyway) that will ultimately make us look bad if we start talking about filibusters.

What Democrats should do is avoid the idea of a filibuster altogether. They should come together and make the case as a party that Alito is ultra-conservative, someone who thinks the government should be able to legislate morality, and who would be reckless to all of the progress we've made as a society in the past 70 years. Then in the end, every one of them should vote no, making it clear to the public that Democratic party wants nothing to do with extreme judges. A 55-45 vote in the end could send the best signal to the country. He's going to be confirmed anyway, need we look childish and hurt our party in the process?

Our party should not be diverting any attention from the disaster that is the Republican Party in the United States.