LOTT: I'M SORRY, AGAIN!

See the post at Smythe's World on Lott's apology for Republican treatment of Clinton's judicial nominees. I like "Smythe's" suggestion: get renominations for two Clinton nominees (per circuit) who never came to a vote because of Republican obstruction, in exchange for a Dem vow not to filibuster Bush's choices. Somehow I doubt Bush (Mr. "Don't Bargain Yourself Down') would agree to this, though. Plus, Republicans are in a winning spot here: if the Dems continue to obstruct, they can force the Dems to expend political capital, paint them as obstructionist, keep the courts understaffed and hence less effective, and continue their partisan shade of constitutionality all at the same time.