The Democrats were too nice to Alito!! From the NYTimes; it’s the “paper of record” so I have officially forgotten everything I witnessed yesterday and have adopted the accepted conventional wisdom from the head of NOW:

Ms. Gandy said Republicans had, to some extent, hamstrung Democrats by creating a public expectation that they would antagonize Judge Alito.
“So I think the Democrats are leaning over backwards to be extremely, very, very nice,” she said. “I don’t think it’s an un-nice thing to ask follow-up questions and really expect the nominee to answer the question.”

That is power, man. When a reporter will buy your line even when we all witnessed a reality to the contrary. AND THE NOMINEE’S WIFE LEFT THE ROOM IN TEARS.