Protecting Her Left Flank

Hillary supports a filibuster of the Alito nomination.

How delicious is it when you can have not only a superbly qualified nominee who's confirmed, but also get to enjoy a little internecine bloodletting in the opposition party? No one on the Dem side is looking very good -- not the buffoons who questioned Alito, not the radicals who are calling for a filibuster (and who will end up looking like impotent pander bears, if and when their gambit fails), not the minority leader who apparently can't hold his team together.

As I said: Delicious.