[TexasGreg]

Legal analysts say the split Democratic vote is a bid for individual senators, and the party as a whole, to preserve credibility going into a second court fight. While Judge Roberts is replacing a conservative vote on the Supreme Court, the next vacancy replaces Justice O'Connor. "I suspect that Leahy and the Democrats' position is strategic: to defuse Republican charges that this is strict partisanship - that interest groups are controlling the show," says Sheldon Goldman, an expert on judicial confirmations at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

IF the only Democrats to vote against Roberts were to be the 5 who so-voted on the committee, that would be one thing ... this analysis might be right. But, the simple fact is that about 65% of the Democrats ... perhaps more ... will vote against Roberts. Based upon what we've heard thus far, Hillary is voting against Roberts, and there will be many more. Yes, it's not monolithic, but that's not necessary to demonstrate that the Democrats will oppose ANY Bush nominee ... and that is a rank ideological divide which is starkly different from the Republican approach to these issues, in which the vast majority of Republicans voted for a Leftist like Ginsberg.

[Amalie]

True, the Dems will let a few off the reservation just to make this look like a reasonable response. Like your tagline...

[uncbob]

ifferent from the Republican approach to these issues, in which the vast majority of Republicans voted for a Leftist like Ginsberg.

Which they shouldn't have . She is the activist that we all knew she would be
GOP is the Stupid Party