Senator Graham’s comments about the increasing politicization of judicial nominations were well put. But I did find one thing odd. In observing that it must be odd for Judge Roberts to sit at home with his family and see TV advertisements accusing him of heinous things, Graham made the off-hand remark that this must have been tough for Democratic nominees as well. Hmmm. That’s odd. I’m sure it’s possible that there were anti-Ginsburg ads or anti-Breyer ads — and I suppose it’s remotely conceivable that they were as vicious as some of the anti-Roberts ads — but I cannot remember a single one. It’s one thing to acknowledge Senate Republicans unfairly bottled up some Clinton nominees (which they did), it’s another thing to pretend that Democratic nominees have faced anything close to the sort of political attacks leveled at Roberts and other Republican nominees.