The whole bunch of them, Preident Bush and the Senate leadership, hope that the people just forget the niminees are languishing. Specter won't hold hearings because that would get attention, etc.
This is such a contrived "easy way out," all because the DEMs had the balls to abuse cloture, and the GOP was too stupid to figure out the rhetoric that gets them out of it.
I figured out some rhetoric, and got it past my 10 year old. Basic fairness is not hard for people to get ahold of, but politicians are not about basic fairness. They are so far into deal and king making that "fairness" is a foreign notion to them.