They Don't Make Borkings Like They Used To

When you see the name "Rolling Justice," is the first thought that comes into your head that this has something to do with marajuana legalization?

If so, stop it, just stop it, or you'll douse what's left of the tattered remnants of this anti-Alito group's dignity. Or whatever dignity substitute they were using.

Actually, since it was a collaboration between People for the [Soviet Socialist] Way and the Alliance for [In]justice, I suspect dignity never had anything to do with it. Which is just as well, since their national-wide "educational" tour about the supposed horrors of an Alito SCOTUS Justiceship is drawing Hasselhoff numbers, and the goal of a million petition signatures they hoped to gather has fallen about 95% short:

A grass roots effort aimed at fueling opposition to Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito has become a target of mockery for the nominee's conservative allies instead - the latest skirmish in an ongoing turf battle among interest groups almost four weeks ahead of the confirmation hearing.

Earlier this month, the liberal activist group Alliance for Justice kicked off a nationwide tour against Judge Alito in which members travel from town to town distributing literature and organizing events against the nominee. Starting in Colorado, the so-called "Rolling Justice" tour stopped in 26 cities in nine days.

But, according to conservative activists, the tour is a disaster. They point to a companion Web site, www.rollingjustice.org, where supporters can follow the tour and post comments online: After more than a week of postings from a tour leader, the site has generated one response, from a woman named "Kendra Sue," who wrote: "Oh my goodness. You are really braving the cold for a good cause. Keep up the good work ..."

The executive director of the Committee for Justice, a key White House ally in the confirmation process, Sean Rushton, said photos on the Rolling Justice Web site suggest weak attendance and a lack of press attention. Of the photos on the site, the largest group pictured is sitting at a restaurant table. A link inviting visitors to get involved leads back to the main Rolling Justice page.

Sounds like Cindy Sheehan's book tour, doesn't it?

Brother Hinderaker dug a little further and found this "Rolling Justice" nugget:

A group opposing President Bush's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court visited Craig Friday to discuss the nomination and its potential effects on the high court....

Three members of the group were at the Holiday Inn on Friday to meet with locals....

No one from Craig attended the meeting Friday, but with freezing temperatures, group members said they weren't surprised.

Yeah, I'm sure they're used to bomb-scare attendance by now. But that was in a "red" state, right? And it was, you know, cold and stuff.

So you'd think that the anti-Alito "forces" would have more luck at a Menshevik citadel like Harvard, right?

Or not:

Only six students attended the introductory meeting for the Harvard chapter of Law Students Against Alito last night—but the chapter’s leaders say they have ambitious plans both to help defeat Samuel A. Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court and to help promote a[n oligarchist] judicial philosophy on campus. [emphasis added]

There's an old saying that what one is speaks louder than anything one can ever say. If that axiom still holds true, the Bush presidency is to the American left what the mythical comet sixty-five million mythical years ago was to the dinosaurs. And like the latter's mythical chicken descendants, it's only after they were "decapitated" that they've been flopping around maniacally. Their final toppling over in the dust isn't far away.

The confirmation of Justice Alito will be a significant milepost along that road.

[HT: CQ]