From our friend Steve Moore, in that Hill piece: “This is going to be a continuing problem for Republicans — as these judicial fights really heat up, it may be that Republicans rue the day that they made Specter chairman.”

And, they are going to blame ‘08 hopefuls Bill Frist and Rick Santorum, by the way. (Last week’s Specter media blitz looked a lot like the Judiciary chairman dancing on the Majority Leader’s political grave. At least, for him, he has that heart surgeon gig to fall back on.)