is concerned about the “messages we send little girls” vis-a-vis Judge Alito and the Supreme Court. Perhaps after his confirmation he should give some version of the speech I thought Dianne Feinstein dreamt of browbeating John Roberts into giving (updated with some post-Miers additions in brackets):

Thank you, senators, for looking beyond my obvious liability — my gender. You took a chance on me, confirming me despite the irrevocable damage I may do to the girls of our nation, who, like my own daughter, dream, as they play with their Justice Barbies, that one day some open-minded president will [again] nominate them instead of some slice of Wonder Bread — well, me — to the Supreme Court [–this time spared from the destructive forces of the mean-spirited misogynist extremists on the Right]. I’m so sorry I am a man, but I will try my very best not to be too much of a Neanderthal in robes.