Pat Leahy on Bill Pryor on Pacifica yesterday:

Mr. Pryor was sent up — actually he’s on the bench now, because he was given a recessed appointment. He was sent up, and it was made very, very clear, he was there simply as a symbol. He’s a nice enough person. I have met him. He’s a pleasant person and all of that, but sent as a symbol and packaged by the White House in a way that we want to have a symbolic ideological position on this independent court. I mean, that almost guaranteed there would be opposition. We’ll go back now. He has been on the court for a few months. We’ll go and look at the decisions he has written since he’s been there.

If Leahy’s in the mood to be honest (okay, what am I thinking?!), Pryor’s record is not going to be an easy rally cry for a fillibuster. (Even Nan Aron was stretching trying to get outraged over it.)