Back when Powerline were still a bunch of unknown asshats, and the re-election of Preznit Magnificent Idiot was not at all a sure thing, despite Ohio, many, many of us were concentrating on getting the message of the Deserting, Cowardly Fratboy out there, especially with American Soldiers lives on the line in Mess O'Potamia. It was (and is) unseemly that someone whose total military service was wasting the taxpayers money learning to be a marginal Air National Guard pilot and getting a dental exam was a legitimate issue. Unfortunately, we all know where that went ... right into the wood-chipper that is the Right-Wing Noise Machine, and it came out as a destroyed story thanks to the incomplete reportage of the CBS team (credit for trying, but not much).

A better an more telling issue to have hammered home might have been the utter failure that Beloved Leader was as a businessman. Like Iraq, no endeavor he has ever touched has been even a modest success, even Texas is eating itself slowly in terms of education (his "signature" issue), children living in poverty and without healthcare and environmental issues because of his "leadership".

It looks like we should have paid more attention to his Harvard MBA, which was seemingly worth about as much as the coveted "flight status" given him by the Air National Guard, but a much more reliable indicator of his performance, or lack thereof. His lack of ability to even run a small business on a turn-key basis with the amazing credentials of being a Harvard MBA should have been a big-ass warning sign. I know it got some play, but nowhere near what his alleged "military service" got. All his failed business ventures have foretold his skill in managing any enterprise without intervention of capital and cover-up by family and friends his whole life. Unfortunately in the case of Iraq, no one is going to come to his aid now or ever ... he's failed there and he owns it, even Poppy can't fix it for him now or ever.

I guess that we also should have realized he wasn't actually joking about the how much easier it would be to run the government if he was a Dictator.

All this is to say one thing, Alito can't change his stripes anymore than Preznit Flying FUBAR can...what he's done and what he's said and the way he's said it are all reliable indicators that he's spinning as fast as he can to avoid the truth being told. He's already lied once to the Judiciary Committe under oath, something that should be making this a Judicial Impeachment hearing, not a Supreme Court Confirmation hearing.

We can't miss this opportunity to reject Alito, even if it means Frist's Un-American "Nuclear Option"...so long to any Senate Business for the rest of this term ... and it's all their fault, as long as our alleged "leadership" can stick to the message and not capitulate to the Millionaire Punditry faster than Mike Brown getting promoted.