PHILIPPE DE CROY has an interesting dialogue on the Estrada nomination, in which both sides come off badly, but in which it’s the Republicans who seem worse off.

I haven’t blogged much on this because — as I said a while back — I find it hard to take the whole judicial-confirmation battle scene seriously anymore. It’s a stylized combat that’s ultimately almost all politics. The discipline that was once provided by tradition, decorum, and propriety is now just about gone, for better or worse.