[Zack Nguyen]

Reuters needs to keep their bias out of this. This bears no resemblance to the Lott episode at all.

This will be the warmup for the Supreme Court nominations. Do Bush and the Senate Republicans have the guts to get tough to get their guy through?

[Dog Gone]

Do Bush and the Senate Republicans have the guts to get tough to get their guy through?

It would have been very easy not to nominate him again. And they knew it would be a battle.

I have to assume that they intend to wage that battle.

[Sender]

This will be the warmup for the Supreme Court nominations.

Will the Supreme Court nominations face the same process? Can they be filibustered or Borked even with a Republican majority?

[winin2000]

Reuters needs to keep their bias out of this.

I'm left wondering if this slightly altered passage from the article could've been so inoccuously presented in a straightforward news piece:

"Republicans are calculating that the Willie Horton ad could enhance their credentials as allies of whites and undermine Democratic efforts to reach out to them."

Ya think?

[Robert_Paulson2]

Reuters needs to keep their bias out of this. This bears no resemblance to the Lott episode at all. ....

yes, but it will by the time they are through with it.