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Sen. Ted Kennedy blasted the Bush administration Sunday morning for "subsuming" the nation in "scandal after scandal," saying: "Clearly there has to be a cleaning of the White House." Asked about reports Saturday that Bush ordered his staff to attend ethics training classes, Kennedy told NBC's "Meet the Press": "I think ethics has to be more than a class, doesn't it . . . Ethics has to be a much more basic and fundamental issue." "Clearly there has to be a cleaning of the White House," Kennedy railed. "We have a damaged presidency and a tarnished White House . ....

 To your battle stations! Any rhetorical nice-nice after the resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was announced Friday will last about as long as a cascade of sparkling cinders from July 4th pyrotechnics.Unless President Bush decides to surprise the nation and nominate a replacement who is anything but a proven ideological touchstone, he will be in for the fight that he deserves.The coming confirmation debate will be of a magnitude unseen in many years, if ever. I'd guess thermonuclear, making the warm-up match earlier this year in the U.S. Senate look like a backyard barbecue.We should be willing to be...