We're given an issue on a silver platter and Frist is nowhere to be found. They should be playing this thing up big time.
It’s a pity, come to think of it, that there is only one Jesse Helms around; quite a few of his colleagues could use a spine transplant. The Senate judiciary committee — Orrin Hatch, chairman — held a friendly hearing a few weeks ago for Bonnie Campbell, a Clinton nominee for the eighth circuit court of appeals. Campbell was Iowa’s attorney general and director of Clinton’s 1992 campaign in the state. After losing a gubernatorial bid in 1994, she was appointed head of the Justice Department office in charge of administering the Violence against Women Act and peddling phony statistics about domestic abuse. You don’t need to be a law professor to know what kind of a judge she would be, and that’s reason enough in our view to reject her.
But even if we’re wrong — as most Republican senators, alas, think — there is evidence that she lacks a judicial temperament as well as constitutionalist convictions. During her 1994 run, she had this to say before the state teachers’ union about Christian conservatives: “I hate to call them Christian because I am Christian, and I hate to call them religious, because they’re not. . . . These are the people that get their orders from God, which is funny because I get contrary orders from God — maybe there’s more than one God.” Shame on Charles Grassley, Iowa’s Republican senator, for supporting Campbell. If Republicans can’t rouse themselves to oppose her lifetime appointment based on her views, they should at least be concerned that she appears to hear voices
Harkin talking about republicans stalling Bonnie Campbell nomination...this from the National Review at that time
Maybe he and Lindsey Graham are napping so they can put in another 2 AM session like they did last week.