Alito Fillibuster: Where are the leaders?

Right at the moment, the odds of the Democrats in the Senate staging a fillibuster to block Alito are pretty poor. Apparently there is a great deal of frustration over this among some of the senators' aides. As Raw Story put it:

One aide said part of the problem is that Democratic senators haven’t felt a groundswell of opposition from constituents. Polls show that Alito’s nomination is supported by most Americans.

“People aren’t engaged in this fight,” one senior aide said. “The reality is this isn’t something that American people are calling in droves about. We’re getting more calls in on NSA spying than we are on Alito.”

I'm sorry. What did we elect these guys to do? Sit around and wait for us to tell them what to do? No. They wanted to be leaders -- so they should be doing the leading. We need to throw them all out.