refer to my post #138 for the answer to your question.
No questions Top Stories
"Last week, in response to Democratic complaints that appeals-court nominee Miguel Estrada has failed to answer questions about his legal views, the White House invited any senator who has doubts about Estrada's views to send him written questions," Byron York writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).
"The White House asked that questions be sent in by the close of business last Friday, and pledged that Estrada would answer them by Tuesday, March 4. 'He would answer the questions forthrightly, appropriately, and in a manner consistent with the traditional practice and obligations of judicial nominees, as he has before,' wrote White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in a letter to all 100 senators.
"As of [yesterday] afternoon, the administration had not received any questions from any senators, according to administration sources."
"Now, it is likely that Republicans will argue that when the White House gave Democrats the chance to ask any question of Estrada — something Democrats had said they dearly wanted — Democrats did not respond," Mr. York said.
Hispanic McCarthyism
Rep. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, and other liberal Hispanics step on dangerous ground by suggesting that conservatives such as judicial nominee Miguel Estrada are not real Hispanics, Anthony Fuentez writes in USA Today.
"Such arguments resemble some of U.S. politics' worst tendencies — racism for one," said Mr. Fuentez, a graduate student in history at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Racism reduces a complex individual personality to a stereotype, as when Harry Belafonte accused Colin Powell of turning his back on the African-American community because he works for the Bush administration. But the argument against Estrada's nomination bears an even closer resemblance to another bad tendency in U.S. politics: McCarthyism," Mr. Fuentez said.
"That virulent strain of patriotism denounced individuals as un-American simply because they held political views or behaved in ways that some self-appointed judges of patriotism despised. In the fight over the Estrada nomination, some Hispanic liberals have embraced McCarthyism's rhetorical style by essentially calling Estrada un-Hispanic."
http://www.washtimes.com/national/inpolitics.htm