You are right that it's a tactic to delay. Kennedy just made a comment during the lunch break about the having sent the letter to Specter in Dec., that Specter's staff said they wouldn't subpoena the info, and that he intends to bring it up again after lunch.
They'd better be trying something else, because Alito has the upper hand so far.
How stupid is it for the Dems to rile Specter, the chairman of the committee, who agrees with them on so many other issues?
But, we'll see if Specter ends up letting them make an issue out of it, and spend all of that time searching through those Princeton Alumni papers in order to delay and try to destroy Alito.
I stepped outside for a while to listen to Rush and he said the same thing.
He played audio clips of the exchange between Kennedy and Specter. It was Hilarious!