Sotomayor dogging it with Reid

Dana Milbank:

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Reid, the majority leader, was awarded Sotomayor's first meeting. So eager was he to praise the nominee that he became tangled in his own cliches. "We have the whole package here," he announced in his office yesterday morning with the smiling Sotomayor seated to his left, her hands folded neatly in her lap. Further, Reid said to her, "you've been an underdog many times in your life but always the top dog."

This left many unanswered questions: Is it acceptable to call the nominee a "package"? Is it possible to be an underdog and the top dog simultaneously?

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As you read Milbank's piece it appears that Reid may have had the most substantive comments about his meeting with the nominee for the Supreme Court. We did learn that she thinks West Point is a very attractive place and I agree with her opinion in that regard.