Beyond grief

Atrios summed it up:

Cruising into Tuesday evening...there will be two possible storylines:

1) The Democrats are a bunch of losers, as are all of their supporters. Bush and his giant codpiece looked magnificent at the state of the union, and Mrs. Alito was very happy and smiling sitting next to Mrs. Bush safe and content now that the magnificent and mighty President Bush made that bad Ted Kennedy go away.

2) The Democrats shocked Washington today by holding together, dropping a mighty turd in the punchbowl of the Bush administration, dealing a deadly blow to his nomination of Alito. The president won't be too happy tonight as he gives the 2006 state of the union speech.

Tomorrow is going to be a brutal day, folks. Brutal. John Aravoisis deconstructs his own fury (they don't come any smarter than John).

But pull up your socks and prepare yourselves to go back to work. Meteor Blades tells us why.