[xzins]

I'm not sure why the WH pursues a "float and see" position on nominees, but it does. Maybe they just don't have enough folks to investigate their own nominees. I don't know.

Maybe you can investigate criminal stuff, but you can't the personal or political stuff.

Whatever it is, it makes it hard to get in a tizzy about WH nominees.

All except the judiciary....the WH seems to have launched a real offensive to get judges approved. We'll see what Frist and the Senate does with that.

[Truth29]

IMHO, Bolton is a proxy for the judicial nominations. If the GOP doesn't pull together, if the WH doesn't fight aggressively for Bolton, and if there are no consequences for those who desert the GOP while the dems show 100% unity, they are telegraphing weakness to Republicans who are thinking about joining the Democrats to defeat the "nuclear" option.