Supreme Court Hearings

Just some thoughts:

• Jon Kyl (AZ) was impressive and had Sotomayor flummoxed, stuttering with her words and stumbling over her own logic.
• Lindsey Graham (SC) started aggressive but never followed-up, letting Sotomayor off the hook by moving on and hedging with surprising honest statements that concede she's a shoo-in for conformation. Points for being frank?
• Sotomayor handled the Democrat softballs, but did not impress me as she had trouble recalling her canned lines, struggled under intense GOP questioning (which she must have prepared for), and consistently contradicting a clearly defined ideological pattern of her own making.