Mornin' Pookster...the next nomination will indeed be a brawl in the committee, but it will be between the two parties, not between the Dems and the nominee.. Several GOP senators, notably Graham, have put down clearcut markers, and in the alternating question style, after every vicious Dem attack, I expect the following Pubbie to take on the Dem senator head first..
Lindsay Graham also says that Bush should do what he said by nominating someone in the mold of Thomas & Scalia. If he does that, let the games begin!!! I like Brown, Jones, Luttig & a few others...just hoping the prez doesn't back down...
That is the kind of hardball we have been needing for a long time.
Specter won't do it as passionately as he should though. What would we expect from a RINO.