Bring on the Filibuster

Kerry and Kennedy seem to be pandering to the extreme Left Wing of their Party by calling for a filibuster of Sam Alito. Even Dems with a minimum of common sense as Harry Reid and Robert Byrd have ruled it out. This is from Wonkette:

Kerry and Ted Kennedy are now calling for a filibuster — an option that has gathered exactly zero momentum duing the hearings and after. Kerry’s running the effort from Davos, natch.

The dumb Democrats have forgotten how to Bork. To Bork, you have to demonize. Remember, Ted? “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors…” The conservatives who sank Miers are now on record as agreeing that a nominee’s views are relevant.

Here's what Sen. Byrd had to say about the Alito Hearings (from Political Teen):

The people of West Viriginia in no uncertain terms were, frankly, appalled by the Alito hearings. I don’t want to say it, but I must. They were appalled. In the reams of correspondece that I received during the Alito hearings, West Virginians–the people I represent–West Virignians who wrote to criticize the way in which the hearings were conducted used the same two words. People with no connection to one another. People of different faiths. Different views. Different opinions. [They] independently and respectively used the same two words to describe the hearings. They called them called an outrage and a disgrace.