…Sotomayor is poised to be the first Hispanic, and the third woman, to serve on the Supreme Court She appears headed for confirmation, needing a majority vote in a Senate, where Democrats have 59 votes. But White House officials also want a smooth confirmation, not one that bogs down them or their nominee.
As a senator, Obama supported a failed attempt by Democrats to stall President George W. Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to the high court. (emphasis added)
So, you see, the whole “better not fight against Sotomayor” may be translated as “we know we have a kook leftist, racist nominee, and we want to scare you away from doing even half what we did to your highly qualified nominees”. Helping the Democrats in this effort are week kneed Senate GOPers who figure that we rank and file GOPers should trust them on this and not go all out…of course, given that these Senate GOPers have presided over a net 16 seat loss over the past two cycles, I don’t know if we rank and file types are exactly in awe over their political acumen…
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