The American Spectator

Hugh Hewitt is on the case related to the dumping of Federal Circuit Court nominee in limbo Brett Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh was nominated to sit on the DC Circuit back in 2003 and has been held now in all that time. His name was intentionally excluded from the negotiations by the Gang of 14, though in private sessions, sources have told us that Sen. John McCain had offered up Kavanaugh’s nomination for sacrifice in order to get other nominees through.

Hewitt points out what a number of other people have posited: that because of Kavanaugh’s role in the investigation of former President Clinton’s (he was a Ken Starr deputy), Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has had a hold on the nomination.

Kavanaugh is but one of several important nominations that Democrats are holding. Sen. Arlen Specter could easily push ahead on Kavanaugh’s, while other committee chairmen, Sens. Lugar and Stevens, to name two, could push the White House for more aggressive movement on other nominations they have dealt with, and which are now on “rolling holds” by the full Senate.

Hewitt is right, Sen. Bill Frist could create a great deal of trouble for Democrats if he — or a minion — would pull the curtain on the “hold” process so there was a bit more political accountability in this important election year.