Reply #110: and you won't even consider why they did not.

[AtomicKitten]

I absolutely, wholeheartedly agree that Alito is a disaster.

However, there is no question a filibuster would have triggered the "nuclear option." Do you seriously think after the 2000 judicial coup d'etat that the Rs would hold back?

Also to consider is the fact that there are a lot of Dems in red states whose asses were on the line. Why risk it if it wasn't going to happen? Hell yes it was idealistically the right thing to do. But some people just don't understand that Dennis Kucinich types don't run well in red states and that's precisely why we cannot afford to bitchslap those Dems that can.

But now we're back to the big tent notion ....