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...might the Democrats' victory in stopping Chavez impact on the wider confirmation process...
...This won't have a souring effect, because Chavez has pulled out before hostile hearings and a spectacle on Capitol Hill that would cause partisan bitterness afterward. What will affect relations on the Hill will be how the Ashcroft hearings are handled...
...closet came out to topple nominees. So Bush picked what he thought were solid Republicans, like Powell, Rumsfeld and O'Neill, - and he even includes Ashcroft in this category - who'd been through vetting processes before and could withstand the grind, and there wouldn't be any surprises. Chavez has proved to be just the sort of surprise he dreads and hates...
...controversial Cabinet nominee cases, from Chavez to John Ashcroft to Gale Norton, Democratic senators were telling the outside groups opposing those nominations that they had to have a smoking gun in order to pick off a nominee. In Chavez's case, they got the smoking gun. Each one of those three, from a Democratic point of view, is polarizing, partisan and objectionable, but that would not be enough to actually defeat their nomination. They made clear that to defeat a nominee there had to be something in the past to tip it over - a Nannygate, or an objectionable statement...
...Will the defeat over Chavez affect the Bush administration's relations with Capitol Hill...