That last set of hearings was a ridiculous joke.

That stupid bitch crying. Puh-leeze! The guy is a judge, he makes tons of money. He's being nominated for the supreme court. Even if he doesn't make it, what the hell does she have to be crying about???

She's rich. She'll never work to work in her life. Her husband goes through what EVERY SINGLE SCOTUS nominee goes through. And she's she's crying because the dems are being so mean. Boo-hoo!

And the pubs are playing up on it as though they themselves welcome with open arms any nominee put forth by a dem president instead acting like a pack of rabid bloodhounds. They plaster her ugly weepy face on the news and say, "Look what those terrible dems did to this poor woman."

Well, excuse me, if I have absolutely no sympathy for a weepy rich bitch who shouldn't even be sitting there to begin with. Just go out and buy a few diamonds and some hot real estate, honey, you'll be grinning before you know it.

With that said, Alito won't make a bit of difference about anything--just like every other SCOTUS judge before him. SCOTUS is about as useful as a one-legged tap-dancer. The important decisions always come from lower courts and those decisions are never even heard by SCOTUS.