Do you mean as "high-yield explosive". Gosh I hope so. I'd love to see Hatch go ape-s***t on the Democrats. He has the gravitas and eloquence to shame the Dems.
Frankly, there are those who know how to play the game and those who dont. The repubs should be learning from liberals like Schumer and Conservatives like Helms how play this game. Helms was able to make his mark on the Clinton admin and forced even them to respect him (hated him but still respected him). Helms nows better than anyone how play the nominations game. too bad we are losing him.
Lott ... well, he sure is the whipping boy around here. but it is deserved. ;-/ I agree with nickles or mcconnell as good replacements. Lott is a go-along type, he lacks the partisan fire-in-belly brass-nuts go-tothe-wall mind-set needed for these leftist socialist creeps. he can cheerlead while a real leader takes on the Senate Demon-crats. I guess we have to wait for 2003 to see that.
I think that Bush will veto CFR - if only as retaliation against Feingold, who has pushed this issue hard.