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Perhaps Prof. Blanchard has noted a trend. Check out this story from Minnesota: He was antlered and dangerous ? and he almost took out Gov. Tim Pawlenty. As Pawlenty arrived for work at the Capitol Thursday, he and his entourage...

I mentioned the "Gang of 14" in this post, wondering how much horsepower they might be able to muster if the Senate Democrats decided to filibuster Alito. I wish I had read this first: The 14 centrists who averted a...

I've been attending the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Good panels, good jazz, but, unusually, not so good food at the gala. They did however give us a free ride to the top of the Gateway Arch...

The other day Abe noted a very pessimistic and cynical column from Peggy Noonan. Let me tell you, the Pegster was on a real downer when she wrote this baby. Here blogger The Speculist says Cheer Up, Peggy. Our future...

South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has this quote in today?s Argus Leader:It's my hope that both groups on the left and the right will take a deep breath and back off, Johnson said. Grenades from both the liberal and arch-conservative...

According to the Washington Post, Alito zigs where O'Connor zagged. In 1991, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. voted to uphold a Pennsylvania statute that would have required at least some married women to notify their husbands before getting an abortion;...

Sen. Hatch, Chris Matthews Slam Donk Talking Points!

A talking-points memorandum being circulated by Democrats to friendly media outlets attacks Judge Samuel Alito on the basis of his Italian heritage.

Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch stormed Monday night that the memo was "despicable" and a sign that desperate Democrats are "hysterical" over the Alito nomination.

What's interesting here also, is that Sen. Hatch found out about the memo from MSNBC's Matthews:

Matthews alleged that Democrats are passing around a memorandum that he called a "complaint sheet" about Alito. The cable talk show host said the lead item in the memo claims that as a federal prosecutor, Alito failed to convict members of the Lucchese crime family in a 1988 case. The implication is that because Alito is Italian-American he went easy on the prosecution, or worse.

The Chief has NO hesitation about ripping a strip off the back of the MSM when warranted, but to give credit where credit is due, Chris Matthews made a good play on this one!

An obviously angry Matthews said, "I'm sitting here holding in my hands a pretty disgusting document. This is put out not for attribution, but it comes from the Democrats. They're circulating it; I can say that. The first thing they nail about this Italian-American is he failed to win a mob conviction in a trial ... way back in '88. In other words, they nail him on not putting some Italian mobsters in jail from the family. Why would they bring up this ethnically charged issue as the first item they raise against Judge Alito?

"This is either a very bad coincidence or very bad politics," he added, and warned Democrats that their sneak attack will backfire. "Either way it's going to hurt them. ... Not abortion rights, not civil rights but that he failed to nail some mobsters in 1988 -- this is the top of their list of what they've got against this guy. Amazingly bad politics."

The memo failed to note that Alito won a major prosecution against the Genovese crime family.

The Donks have also damaged their relationship with what has been a sizeable part of what's left of their base:

A. Kenneth Ciongoli, Chairman of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) on Monday demanded an apology for the media's frequent references to the judge's Italian heritage and the use of the term "Scalito" to describe him as a clone of Justice Antonin Scalia.

What can one say - the Donks ARE getting desperate!

[Administrative note: I wasn't very clear on the status of today's vote when I initially posted this, so I want to clarify what's going on. Today's vote was a motion vote, requiring 2/3 to suspend the rules and adopt the...

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