War on bipartisanship

Well, Bush has decided that you can never have too many battles: he's renominated a dozen+ failed judicial nominees from his first term. Reid clarifies matters thusly:

Last year, the Senate worked to confirm 204 of the President's judicial nominees and rejected only the 10 most extreme. This confirmation record is better than that achieved by President Clinton, President George H.W. Bush and President Reagan. Despite our unprecedented effort to work with the President in discharging our constitutional duty to advise and consent to his nominees, today he renominated 7 of the 10 rejected nominees.

There's no way this will increase Senate harmony -- at best, they refilibuster the most unacceptable of the batch; at worst, the Republicans exercise the "nuclear option," and nothing more will get done this year and for a long time...

For more on the battle and on the more controversial of the renominees, see this kos story.

Update: Apparently one of these "highly qualified" candidates actually practiced law without a license for several years before being nominated the first time. Who could oppose such a rose?