Well, the first breaches in the Democratic front against Alito are appearing...
Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska stated he believes Alito is a moderate judge (if this is moderate, I don't wanna know his definiotion of conservative) and that Alito won't chisel away existing law...
http://www.cnn.com/...
Also, according to the NY Times...
http://www.nytimes.com/...
The GOP is currently hard at work targetting conservative Dems to turn their back to their party with regards to Alito... Senators mentioned by the article are the aformentioned Nelson, Conrad, Johnson
Even Dianne Feinstein said she considered a filibuster unlikely, "outside of a finding of something that is not known at this time."
Graham and DeWine have already set they'd go nuclear if the Dems try to filibuster, luckily it seems old Senate bull John Warner is still as opposed to the nuclear option as he was during spring...
Methinks we should do the same as the GOP: they try to "convert" our conservative senators... we should start working on their few moderate senators: Spectre, Chafee, Snowe and Collins... In fact, both Snowe and Collins said they were concerned about some of Judge Alito's opinions supporting curbs on abortion rights.
So we must try to shore up our own guys while trying to convert some of theirs... we'll probably have little luck with that but we havce to try anyway...
I'D RATHER GO DOWN FIGHTING THAN BACK DOWN TO LIVE AND FIGHT AN OTHER DAY FOR AN OTHER SURRENDER.