That was my take on it.
There is a level of decorum and civility required in the Senate, and this would be like Reid crapping on the dinner table. All the Pubs and probably a sizeable number of Dems will be outraged by this loose cannoneering.
"This is a good thing. Alito is now filibuster proof."
I disagree. This is an attempt to start a food fight. If hostility increases, they can feel safer with a filibuster. I say, bring it on.
Turn the tables on these turkeys. Investigate the FALN pardons for votes. Investigate the Misty Three. Investigate all the leaks by the left. Make this a broad sweeping investigation. And appoint Alan Keyes, Judge Roy Moore, Ann Coulter, Bork, Weyrich, B1 Bob Dornan, and Jerry Falwell to head a blue ribbon panel. In your face. When they filibuster, recess appoint Archie Bunker to the Supreme Court. When they cause a government shutdown, be sure that all IRS agents and all those other beaurocratic bench warmers get their pay checks stopped, and work out ways to cut costs. Gloat about the money being saved. [But keep the S.S. checks and military funds flowing, though. Dare the rats to filibuster those two priorities.]
They want to Scooter Libby us? They want to Tom DeLay us? They want to Joe Wilson us? Let's get tough. Don't get mad. Get even.