Alito Inches Closer -

The debate goes on and on and on - the last time I listened to find out what the score was it stood at 47 in favor and 26 against. This can on for sometime until all 100 senators have had a chance to vote. Alito needs 51 votes for confirmation and there are 55 Republican senators in the chamber.

As I stated yesterday, I fear that some the more wayward Republican senators that are media jockeys might what to make a splash by voting against or ' present '. If they voted 'present', then the number of senators that could vote in favor will fall, which means the margin between success and failure falls by the same number.

Everyone seems confident he will be confirmed. I wonder if any Democrats will vote in favor of the nomination?

I believe it was back in 1993 when the senate confirmed Ginsburg, the vote was 96 to 3. Even though the Republicans knew that she was an active member of the ACLU they still voted to confirm. They thought since it was the presidents choice they should go along. Make sure the system functions as designed.

Things have changed a lot since the Democrats lost both houses of the legislature and the Presidency. The new liberal Democrats have no sense of duty to make the system function as designed. The new theme is cut and slash and burn. Go for the throat. Don't give an inch. Destroy everything in your path to gain power. No behavior too abhorrent.

As a result, the Democrats have no sense of duty or honor or country. But this is one of the things that the Democrats could rely on the loyal opposition to do to make the country run when they were in control, they always knew that most Republicans would put honor and country ahead of self. The Democrats found this behavior unthinkable and laughable.

So no matter how corrupt and underhanded liberal left Democrats were, they could always rely on the Republicans to safe guard the country. They could be assured that duty to the people and to the constitution would be paramount.

To see how this worked, look what Clinton did for eight years - his behavior as President of the United States was criminal - contrast that to what the Democrats are doing today in the senate - it's criminal. It's their culture. It's who they are.