You heard that one first here at SDP!
No sooner am I back from St. Louis than the President rolls the dice a second time.
Judging (if you will forgive the term) from early reactions, I suspect that the nomination process will be very lively. I am not sure that the nominee will get no Democratic votes on the committee, as P. Schaff suggests. I expect one or two. It will be a matter of whether the consensus that formed during the Roberts hearings-that qualifications, not ideology, were releveant-has survived the Miers nomination. I think that it probably has, since it is glaringly obvious that Miers's chief weakness was her lack of preparation. If Alito has no skeletons in his judicial closet, he probably will win confirmation by a small but comfortable margin.
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