Interesting Comments from Dems

I just finished reading the article Glum Democrats Can't See Halting Bush on Courts, which was written by Adam Nagourney. There were some really interesting comments by some Democrats about the Alito hearing.

For example the article states that:

In interviews, Democrats said the lesson of the Alito hearings was that this White House could put on the bench almost any qualified candidate, even one whom Democrats consider to be ideologically out of step with the country.

I am really at a loss as to what these Democrats meant when using the term "the lesson of the Alito hearings". Is the lesson directed at the citezenry, or was it a lesson they learned. I sincerely hope that it didn't take a hearing of this magnitude to teach these elected officials that the President is the one that chooses how is on the Supreme Court.

One piece of rare common sense came from Ronald Klain. When asked if they could slow the President's judicial successes he responded with the following quote:

No. The only thing that will fix this is a Democratic president and more vacancies. It takes a long time to make these kinds of changes and it's going to take a long time to undo them.

This seems so simple - but in this day and age it eludes most liberals. The way to control who it is that goes on the bench is to win elections. Unfortunately for liberals the only way that they can get their ideas pushed onto the citizenry is to do it in the courts. Since they haven't been able to make a judge declare the President's authority to appoint Supreme Court Justices unconstitutional I'm afraid they are pretty much out of luck.