Concerning the Alito Confirmation: 58-42

Jeff Goldstein writes in Protein Wisdom:

Somewhere, in the mythical back alleys of America, uteri twitch as Southerners, long held in check by the sheer egalitarian will of their liberal Democratic brethren, pull long white robes and heavy rope out of the mothballs in granpappy’s special “patriotic” hope chest…

No wonder Robert Byrd voted to confirm. Sometimes you just have to dance with the one that brung ya.