The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance (Unless It Interferes With Your Vacation Schedule)

It looks like the vacation schedules of certain Senators interfered with the effectiveness of the Democrats' ability to coordinate with each other at the ScAlito hearing (from the New York Times via AmericaBlog):

Democratic aides said there had been even less strategy than usual in trying to coordinate the questioning by the eight Democratic senators. The situation was complicated because senators and staff were out of Washington before the hearing.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that a little more coordination would have resulted in a "Perry Mason" moment featuring a mentally exhausted ScAlito finally coming clean under intense Democratic questioning and announcing that Roe v. Wade must be overturned, that he actually founded the Concerned Alumni of Princeton group, and that the Bill of Rights is itself unconstitutional. The Democrats could have prepared for months and that wouldn't have changed ScAlito's answers one bit.

The problem is that somewhere along the line, the Corporate Media got the notion that ScAlito has a lock so long as no such Perry Mason moments occur. And it appears that our spine-less Democrats have bought into that notion. In other words, the Democrats are still on vacation.