it's not like the senate isn't in the business of doing confirmations right now. just yesterday the snoot confirmed a new intellectual property enforcement coordinator and also a new director of the u.s. patent and trademark office, whoo-hoo. two very important posts. not, however, the country's top law enforcement official. i don't know why this isn't a bigger story for the media but no nominee for attorney general has gone through something like this. for somebody for whom there are no substantive objections to her nomination, no one nominated to be attorney general has ever in the history of our country been held by the senate for this long. she's already been approved by the judiciary committee. it's just that the republican leadership in the senate won't allow the full senate to vote on her. unprecedented. democrats are starting to stamp their feet about it a little bit including harry reid making yet another call today for her to get a vote. the lightest word from mitch mcconnell is that maybe they'll vote on her next week. we'll see.