Disagree. I'm not listening to a pessimist or optimist opinion of his statements. I am stating what I see. What I see is Spectre prefering not to do this vote, but making the historical case as to how we got here.
Maybe so, but to me it's unseemly for the Judiciary Chairman to be undecided at this late date, and then yell it out loud! What message does this send to the Dems? That there's still room for compromise? I thought Frist made it clear that time has run out on that.
This has been pretty much choreographed by both sides up to now, and probably for a long time in the future. Spectre has apparently been dubbed as the 'Pubbie who will present the history of this problem for anyone who cares to know. I don't think he's presented much of note to anyone. Frist has his vote on this issue, though - Spectre doesn't think judges ought to be able to be blocked by minority vote.