I really believe that the Dems have done themselves considerable harm in these hearings. Alito is a good and decent man, and the Dems are very transparent.
I agree....and I think their insistence on hearings about the NSA wiretapps will also blow up in their faces...
which I think is why President Bush has said he now WANTS those hearings...as well as, I assume, the Justice Dept. investigation into WHO leaked.