PLEASE, PLEASE read these
excellent blog posts
by Ed Whelan
at NRO's Bench Memos. They make a supremely strong case that
5th Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Leslie Southwick is being
terribly mistreated by Senate Democrats, and that the right should
rally around his cause--not least of which because not only is
Southwick wonderfully qualified, but because he is a true hero, and
this is a fight that, on PR grounds, we can win overwhelmingly if
we will only wage it. (Cross posted at Confirm Them.)