I lied about light blogging. I was perusing some leftist blogs and noticed an angry trend that confirms Power Line and my contentions regarding the similarities between the unreasonable client and the Democratic base. For instance

I’ve been holding off on my thoughts about Alito until I knew what was going to happen. Not like I didn’t know what was going to happen, but I wanted to believe in hope.

I’m not the only person upset tonight. I’ve visited other blogs and found quite a few that have a common thought: F$ck it, f$ck it all!!! Lots of people are quiting the party. When you have 14 Democrats without the balls to stand up, what else can you feel? Others are REALLY pissed off and ready for a take over of this party. When we can’t scare up 25 votes over a person like Alito (an unabashed racist and womanhater, not to mention what else), how can we hope that anything else can stand muster?

The few amount of gay rights we have gained over the years, like WA state getting a gay rights law passed in the last few days is already under attack, and bound to be overturned by an extremist court that only has one objective. Keep the right extremists in power.

And it goes on, and on, seething with unreasonableness. Then there’s the list of the condemned. Complete nuttiness like this

Senate set to turn our civil rights clocks back 30 years today…

not just for women and not just because of his views on abortion rights… but for gays and blacks and everyone who isn’t a pasty white bible thumping moron.

I’m not sure what happened in 1976, but it must have been big. Then there are attempts at self rationalization, “In the kingdom of the fascists, the moderate is the radical leftist.”

The base is practically demanding that the Democratic Party abandon all hopes of appealing to the majority of the electorate. The behavior of the Senate Democrats on the judiciary committee was not that of a party controlled from the reasonable center, but that of a vehicle steered by the braintrust over at MoveOn.org. In short, members of Democratic Underground have crept up from their subterranean lairs, daring sunlight, and have effectuated not only what to fight for, but how to fight for it. Their efforts have resulted in the liberal lion melting down on the Senate floor, muttering something about Judge Alito holding responsibility for children dying of asthma. And this resulted from a smear campaign that should only be reserved for the undeniably wicked.

To its credit, the Democratic leadership did step up, and managed to stop the bleeding. The fact that no filibuster materialized shows that the radical elements don’t completely control the party - yet. But the course of events demonstrates they have sway - and in primaries this year, that sway will likely be amplified.