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i don't think you can lump arlen specter in with the rest of the republicans. and not every republican is on board with domestic spying; the washington times recently said that bush is a clear and present danger to the rule of law. as for the non-answers, so far alito has been more forthcoming than roberts. roberts said very little about anything. (not that the senators had anything substantial to trip him up.)
however, i do think this issue is more significant than anything that has been raised before by alito detractors. the media-hyped clash of parties over alito never happened because the man seems to be more or less an acceptible candidate. of course alito is conservative...bush isn't going to nominate a democrat. but now there is more to grill him about, and hopefully we will get a good idea of his judicial philosophy on this issue.
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