[ken5050]

If, IF, the deal was done, believe me, it's signed in blood...and there's a reason why Arlen might even have been happy to take it...there are gonna be several SC nominees, which will make the current nomination look like a tea-party...it'll be brutal, and Arlen may not be up to it...look, Hatch at times looked exhausted on the Senate floor during the debates...I don't think the WH sees ASrlen has having the physical stamina to do the job...we shall see..

[Theodore R.]

Hatch at times looked exhausted on the Senate floor during the debates

Well, Orrin is not getting any younger. He was most enthusiastic in supporting the clintoid nominees Ginsburg and Breyer in 1993 and 1994. He wanted to prove his "bipartisanship." What does UT see in him, I'll never understand?