I like this guy

President Bush hit a home run today! Samuel A. Alito, whose critics appear to try to deride him by calling him "Scalito" (as if that's an insult), is as genius a pick as was Roberts. After all, you have to know that Bush is doing something right when prominent democrats call the nomination "needlessly provocative." And then you get statements from moonbat think tanks like this:

In nominating Judge Samuel Alito, President Bush has relinquished the opportunity to unite the country behind a moderate mainstream conservative and chosen the path of confrontation urged on him by the extreme right wing. In short, a weakened and politically unpopular President has capitulated to his base.

Since when has any conciliatory gesture that Bush ever performed in his "new tone" policy ever served to unite any democrats with him? Bush has nearly literally bent over backward to make good-faith efforts to build bridges to those on the democrat side of the aisle, only to receive nothing but a kick in the ass for his efforts. Bush is now slowly but surely realizing that it is an impossibility to engage in cordial relations with ogres whose only aim is to bring down your administration by any means possible.

Bush has made the good faith effort, and has time and time again held out the hand of friendship, only to time and time again have it bitten.

President Bush, after this nearly five year exercise in futility, has hopefully finally resigned himself to the fact that charity begins at home, and that he will need to look to his own Party in order to advance his agenda and cement his legacy. He has most likely by now found that it certainly won't happen by kowtowing to the wrong people.