If the Democrats in the Senate fold rather than filibuster radical Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the US Supreme Court, they aren't worth your spit.

What are these wimps afraid of? Surely it's not the people. Are they afraid of retribution or worse from wannabe Dictator Bush? Are they afraid of being "Swift Boated" by the Republicans, as was done to John Kerry and Max Clelland? Are they afraid of being cut off from the money needed for the next rigged election? Are they afraid of being ridiculed by Bush's handmaidens in the corporate media?

Never mind that freedom-loving decent people of conscience across this country are begging and cajoling the Senate Democrats to filibuster Alito while we still have something left of the Constitution, the toxic Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) has given the people the finger by opposing a filibuster. Said the DLC in its Jan. 24 New Dem Dispatch, "Using this weapon now would stake Democrats to the implausible argument that Alito's inevitable confirmation is the most egregious act of the Bush administration and the Republican Senate, going into a critical midterm election."

No, it would be the final egregious act in a mountain of the Bush administration's egregious acts -- nay, criminal acts -- before George W. realizes his wet dream of becoming dictator. This is what he said on three occasions:

1. "You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas. (Governing Magazine 7/98) --From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?"
   
   
2. "I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked. -- CNN.com, December 18, 2000
   
   
3. "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " [Bush] said. -- Business Week, July 30, 2001

Yet, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid contends, "Everyone knows there are not enough votes to support a filibuster." Now that's leadership! Of course, Reid really doesn't want a filibuster, even though he is now saying he won't vote for cloture. Hey, this is the same guy who apologized for naming 33 Republican senators in a memo that laid out the GOP's corruption, which Reid preferred to call "abuse of power."

As of Friday, Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Ken Salazar of (D-Col.) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) opposed a filibuster. All three are members of the DLC.

In a statement, Pryor saud, "While I personally cannot support Judge Alito's confirmation on the Supreme Court, there is not a smoking gun in his past that would warrant 'extraordinary circumstances' and subsequently a filibuster against his nomination."

There isn't just one smoking gun, there is an arsenal of them -- from Alito's defense of domestic spying to his theory of an all powerful "unitary executive."

Oh, won't they howl when Dictator Bush, with Alito's blessing, turns the guns on them.

Then there is Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was held out at the 2004 Democratic Convention as the party's up-and-comer. Considering his opposition to an Alito filibuster, it would be better if returned to whence he came.

Yesterday, on ABC's "This Week." Obama called a filibuster to stop Alito's confirmation a stalling tactic and predicted it would fail. With thinking like his, Reid's, Pryor's, Salazar's, Conrad's and their craven colleagues, of course it will fail, because they will make sure it fails.

Then Obama had the unmitigated gall to say, "There's one way to guarantee that the judges who are appointed to the Supreme Court are judges that reflect our values. And that's to win elections."

Win elections when the voting machines are rigged? Surely the gentleman from Illinois jests or have the powers behind the curtain whispered in his ear that they intend to throw the 2006 mid-term "election" to the Jackass Party? You might say a change in labels for the sake of appearances, nothing more. That also would be interesting when the base, which the Democrats think has nowhere to go, decides to stay home on election day.

Let's not leave two-faced Joseph Biden out, whose mush-brain still thinks he has a chance to become president in 2008. The repugnant senator from Delaware said on CNN's "Late Edition," "I think a filibuster make sense when you have a prospect of actually succeeding." He said he would vote one time to continue the debate, but that Alito would be confirmed.

How many bricks do these guys need to fall on their heads before they come to their senses -- if they can come to their senses? It will be too late when Dictator Bush's storm troopers kick in their doors to haul them away. After all, why does the "unitary executive" need a Senate or a House, or even the courts, when he holds all the power to do whatever he wishes?

Have the senators forgotten their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution? Nowhere is it written in the Constitution that an occupant of the Oval Office is entitled to have his nominees for any office rubber-stamped by the Senate.

Moreover, if 41 Democrats don't stand up for the Constitution and the people by 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today, history will look upon them, more so than the Republicans, as the traitors who brought down the republic.