Senate Democrats finally have the scalp they so desperately wanted.(The Week)(Manuel Miranda)(Brief Article)

* Senate Democrats finally have the scalp they so desperately wanted. On February 6--Reagan's birthday!--the Senate Republican leadership announced the resignation of Manuel Miranda, a top aide to majority leader Bill Frist. Miranda quit under pressure from Republicans eager to accommodate Democrats angry over the leak of secret Democratic strategy memos concerning the president's judicial nominees. Those memos, leaked to the press late last year, revealed that Democrats were working closely with liberal interest groups to, among other things, racially profile Bush nominees and manipulate the scheduling of one nominee's hearing in hopes of influencing an ongoing case in federal court. One memo referred to Bush's judicial picks as "nazis." The documents would have been profoundly embarrassing to Democrats had anyone in the establishment press decided to pay attention. Instead, Democrats cried foul and claimed the memos had been stolen--even though it was their peculiar computer system that made ...