Angels Over Washington

Alito has been confirmed. A solid finger up to John Kerry and his campaign manager Daily Kos'  Markos Moulitsas, Senator Ted Kennedy. To the so called Gang Of Fourteen, watch and learn.

Michelle Malkin: "Vote: 58-42. "Without objection, so ordered."

The former U.S. appeals court judge will quickly be sworn in at the Supreme Court before his expected appearance at Bush's annual State of the Union speech Tuesday evening with the White House's other new Supreme Court judge, Chief Justice John Roberts. Alito will be ceremonially sworn in a second time at a White House East Room appearance on Wednesday.

The Anchoress: "It’s kind of like when Benedict XVI was elevated to the papacy, and all the chattering “progressives” were weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth and predicting doom, gloom, fascist crackdowns within the church, etc. Now, Benedict has shown himself to be beautifully pastoral, gentle, loving and shy - and all of the critics look precisely like the dramaqueen adolescents they were and are. I believe they’d done it again - and much more vividly - with Sam Alito.

The Democrats have just shown the country that their partisanship is so out of control that they are unable to govern, at all, because they cannot put it aside for a moment."

Ankle Biting Pundits is snapping at Daily Kos' heels.

Justice Alito sworn in.

Now lets get down to the brass facts. Howard Dean's team has just $5.5 million cash on hand, according to the latest reports, while the Republican National Committee has $34 million — a $29 million advantage for Bush's team. Anger doesn't seem to fill the coffers.

John Hinderaker @ Powerline who does a filibuster post mortem: "Here, I'm not so optimistic. Whatever the numbers may be at the moment, the Democrats have turned themselves into the party of the super-rich, and for the foreseeable future, they'll have a financial edge over the Republicans, even though that advantage will be manifested in soft money, which can be given to "independent" groups like MoveOn.org in infinite quantities."

A list of results of how the house voted from the Iowa Voice.

And this for a laugh.

More @ Powerline, Protein Wisdom, Hugh Hewitt, ProfessorBainbridge, The Volokh Conspiracy, Blogs for Bush, La Shawn Barber's Corner, Macsmind, The Moderate Voice, Ace of Spades HQ, Publius Rendezvous, Balloon Juice, The Reaction, The Political Pitbull, California Conservative, Below The Beltway, Outside The Beltway, Gateway Pundit, A Blog For All, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Stop The ACLU, Sister Toldjah, The Strata-Sphere, JustOneMinute, Betsy's Page, The Corner on National, Althouse, PoliPundit,  The Uncooperative Blogger, Right Wing News, The Florida Masochist, bRight & Early,

My condolences to my friends @ Lawyers, Guns and Money, The Heretik, Wonkette, and Glenn Greenwald who has decided to ignore the news today presumably because it was too predictable.

WaPo, Washinton Times, Reuters, CNN, Reuters, (later edition)

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Comments

[Darrell]

Thanks, Joe! They will. Democracy is a wonderful thing! So is our Constitution.

[Dumb Ox]

Dear Alexandra,

You and your readers may be interested in our analysis of the State of the Union address and of the Bush agenda in general. Our interpretation explains more of the anomalies of this presidency than we've seen anywhere else.

http://thomistic.blogspot.com/2006/02/bushs-strategy-and-sotus-in-retrospect.html#links

Love your posts up above. We've added your link in the sidebar over at The Dumb Ox. Keep up the great work.

All the best,
D. Ox
http:thomistic/blogspot/com

[Gina Cobb]

Linked Post:

And the Lid Slams Shut on the Alito Opposition
http://ginacobb.typepad.com/gina_cobb/2006/02/and_the_lid_sla.html

[Joseph Marshall]

Congratulations. May your children reap the benefits of this victory, whatever they may be. For they will certainly reap the results in any case, as will we all.

[Alexandra]

Phoenician,

I don't know whether it's being upside down, down under the whole time, that makes your brain spin or whether you are just an annoying troll posing as a person to be taken seriously, but you're beginning to get on my nerves. Your comments have been unneccessarily aggressive to all that have engaged with you, which can only mean that you must be either incredibly young or incredibly pscychotic.

Next time you address someone who is a Professor, and has bothered to address you several times with long responses, have respect, otherwise don't bother to come back. I hope I have made myself clear enough. This site is not updated every day with a lot of hard work and care, for you to crap on it every day and insult everyone who addresses you. Either debate like a grown up, which means stop insulting the readers that address you politely or bugger off.

If there is any part of this comment you don't understand do me a favor and don't copy paste 50 links from Wikipedia to explain yourself, it's very boring...

[Alexandra]

To the guy posing as Steve Bainbridge, the only jerk around here is YOU. It must be all that heat in Tuscon that's making you hallucinate.

[Darrell]

Only conjecture, but I think the Dems sold theirs in order in get Clinton elected--twice. The debt has come due. Don't ask Jimmy Carter about debts coming due. He had a little problem with a big loan from BCCI Bank a while back that he explained away by saying that he didn't know payments were due.

[Phoenician in a time of Romans]

Now lets get down to the brass facts. Howard Dean's team has just $5.5 million cash on hand, according to the latest reports, while the Republican National Committee has $34 million — a $29 million advantage for Bush's team.

And remember, America is a plutocracy, not a democracy! Um, I mean...

[stevebainbridge]

God am I happy! I haven't felt this good since that time in confession when I was eight that the priest taught me it was okay to jack off.

I sure wish I could celebrate by playing priest/altar boy with one of the guys at volkoh conspiracy - but I'll just have to be satisfied with a bottle of merlot.

[Kenny Pierce]

Alexandra,

A first, and largely unthinking (therefore probably stupid) reaction:

Doesn't it strike you that this is absolutely the best of all possible outcomes for the Evil Genius Karl Rove and the rest of the Republicans? The lunatic chunk of the Left will now spend an appreciable time dribbling spittle from the sides of their mouths while trying to cannibalize the Democrats who voted against both Alito and the filibuster. The perfect outcome for the Republicans, who desire both a conservative Supreme Court and a self-immolating Democratic Party, was to (a) avoid the filibuster, (b) confirm the candidate, and (c) confirm the candidate by a margin too small to have dodged the filibuster short of the nuclear option.

Has Karl Rove sold his soul to the Devil or what?