Alito Confirmed

Is it just me, or have conservatives begun to take the Bush administration for granted? A potentially great justice like Samuel Alito is confirmed, and by following a brilliant strategy crafted by the White House, he is confirmed in a way that makes the threat of filibuster weaker not stronger and helps ignites a civil war in the leftist camp that threatens to tear up the Democratic base. But most bloggers don't seem to care all that much.