because the white house political operation doesn't affirmatively keep "our guys" in line on these issues. why does a senator from a state that Bush won to give him the presidency just a few months ago, pull a stunt like this? My bet is that no one from the white house has talked to Voinovich about this nomination even one time.
Voinovich didn't just blindside the WH. He made his fellow Senator Lugar look unprepared and foolish. Why did Voinovich do this? What is HIS motivation? Not getting enough strokes from the WH is not the reason.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!