The Sotomayor Hearings:

It's all about the next one: Peter Baker and Charlie Savage think the sometimes bizarre behavior on the part of the Republican senators who are currently cross examining Judge Sonia Sotomayor are trying to set up positions for the next Obama nominee. Considering the probability that the president seems likely to be re-elected in 2012 due to the collapse of the GOP following the fiasco of the Bush years and the ages of the majority of the members of the court, Obama almost certainly will be proffering at least one more nominee.