Letter: Thick-headedness run amok

Editor, Daily News:

Yet another example of the lack of leadership in the party of the Democrats — and a missed PR opportunity.

There was no question that the Senate was going to confirm Judge Samuel Alito, in spite of the Kennedy/Kerry call for a filibuster. All of the Democrats knew he would be confirmed.

There was an opportunity for wise leadership by some of the clearer thinking Democrats to recommend a yes vote by all the Democrat senators with a publicized aim of lessening the rancor and the deep-seated ill will that pervaded the Alito hearings. The Democrats could have been heroes.

Steps must be taken soon to lessen the bitterness amongst the two major political parties otherwise little will get accomplished in Congress (read Social Security, bankruptcy, tax reform, health care, tort reform, peace in Iraq, etc.).

Gerry Cabot , Naples