Hillary lucks out

Senate moderates have shut down the attempt by a handful of Far Left senators to filbuster the confirmation of Judge Sam Alito.

Hillary Clinton gets to score points with her radical base for supporting the effort, while avoiding the political baggage of having held up the Alito appointment, broken the "Gang of Fourteen" agreement to restrict judicial filibusters to "extraordinary circumstances," and left the Republicans with no alternative but to exercise "the nuclear option" and end the filbuster once and for all.

Actually, I doubt that luck had much to do with it. Hillary never would have backed the effort if she hadn't been pretty sure from the outset that it would fail to get off the ground. Whatever else one may say about Sen. Clinton, she isn't stupid.