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The Republicans are doing a couple of things here, which are as usual slimed with dishonesty. The first is that they are casting Bush and the blocked nominees as victims. The second is that they are playing the Clarence Thomas / Condoleeza Rice game again with Janice Rogers Brown. She is a California Supreme Court justice who was appointed by Pete Wilson and is described as more conservative than Clarence Thomas. Yesterday the Judiciary Committee sent her nomination to the floor for a second time. Any discussion about Rogers Brown by Republicans...

Wife: Shame on Senator Voinovich. After the Democrats smeared Condoleeza Rice for Secretary of State and Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General, how could Voinovich side with the Democrats in smearing John Bolton?