MSNBC has this article on why Bush won the Alito battle. It is worth a read. One slice from this piece:
Meanwhile, Democrats in states that Bush carried in the 2004 election, such as North Dakota, Nebraska and Tennessee, learned from what had happened to former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who lost his seat to Republican John Thune, partly on the filibuster issue.
Lesson: elections matter. Also note this section about the halcyon days of Democratic obstructionism:
“Our campaign to stop Bush's extremist nominees has been extraordinarily successful so far,” boasted a Nov. 12, 2003 e-mail from Moveon.org, the left-leaning Democratic group. “Miguel Estrada, who was widely thought to be President Bush's top pick for the Supreme Court, withdrew his name from consideration after Senators filibustered his nomination, supported by more than 40,000 phone calls from MoveOn members.”
Faithful readers might remember that one of the ways that left-wing groups undermined Miguel Estrada was through the racial attack of questioning whether this Honduran immigrant was really Hispanic.
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