Chris -- I remember well your first post you cite in this and remember thinking -- "oh good, someone is going to call on us to get involved." Then, no action items followed. Over at Bump on the Beltway, Melanie made a similar post suggesting we'd be called into action -- but nothing followed there. What happened to whatever initiative was promised there?

So I wrote my own Senators and let it go.

Annatopia -- like you, I thought we'd get useful strategy from the advocacy folks, though the one I hoped for was the Alliance for Justice who I have seen marshal opposition to nominees in the past. Something short-circuited there. I hope we'll learn what. NARAL and PFAW seemed to be just posturing, but I don't have a lot of faith in direct mail outfits.

The Dems on the Judiciary Committee were a tremendous disappointment. I listened to the whole Bork hearings back in the day and they were simply smarter (better staffed?) in those days. They were dopey this time round. I don't credit Alito on that; he could have been confronted intellectually.

Kerry is not my leader, but I am glad somebody stepped up a little.