[Colorado Buckeye]

This is bad news. What they have done is give their moneyed allies a week and a half to mount a media campaign against Alito. If it's well done and massive, we could be in trouble.

I wonder whether the Republicans will finally learn that, no matter how many pleasantries they have with them, no matter how many enjoyable dinner parties or drinks at the bar, no matter how many apparently pleasant social or work encounters, they are still dealing with liars and cheats.

If Specter loses the nomination because of this, he is going to look and feel like an a**.

[robertpaulsen]

They're delaying the inevitable for one childish reason -- so Bush cannot mention the confirmation in his State of the Union speech.