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By Carol Platt Liebau Posted in Analysis and Predictions — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Am I supposed to feel sorry for the Democrats after reading this? Apparently, the poor little things can't come up with a strategy on how to use their Roberts vote to maximize their power and influence over the process for the upcoming Bush nominee.

Vote solidly against Roberts? OK. Then it's clear that their opposition is meaningless -- the country will know that any Bush nominee will be reliably and mindlessly obstructed by the Dems.

Vote largely in favor of Roberts? Fine. Then all the next nominee has to do is mimic Roberts' approach and responses to questions and it will be hard for the Dems to explain why Roberts, why not the second nominee.

There is, I think, one approach that would actually work well for the Democrats -- but they're not going to read about it here.