The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled its hearings on the Alito nomination for January 2006, yes you heard right, January, or more than 10 weeks past the nomination date, or far longer than the five weeks that had been scheduled for Miers, so reports the AP.
There is no reason, given Alito's history, record, and prior vetting, that the Judiciary commitee could not have begun hearings on 11-7 when originally scheduled for Miers. The Dems were behind this, I'm sure, hoping to get a case or two decided by O'Connor before Alito receives his commission and takes his oaths.
Shame on Arlen Specter for allowing the Shenanigans. A post over on Redstate's Redhot section notes that this gap will have been the longest since Bork in 1987:
QUOTE(Blanton@Redstate)
That will be when hearings begin on Sam Alito. This is another failure of leadership on Bill Frist's part. Not since Robert Bork has there been so much time between nomination and hearings. This will mean there is ample time for the left to get its anti-Alito operations in gear and sabotage the nomination
Blanton has it right, Frist's inability to keep Specter in line, and the caucus together as a whole on judges has been his undoing. And I am not sure, save a Santorum or McConnell, if there is a real leader in the GOP senate caucus for when Frist retires.
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