He’s on the floor talking about Estrada now. Conservatives have had their differences with him over the years, but when he’s on our side he’s remarkably effective. He does the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger thing, the air of calm though tested patience, so well. He’s willing to be tough, too, as when he responded (last week) to Sen. Kennedy’s remark about Estrada having “a very short fuse” and not being “even tempered” by accusing the Democrat of using “code words which perpetuate terrible stereotypes about Latinos.” (I’ve seen no evidence, by the way, that Estrada has a Ricky Ricardo temper. His reaction to hostile questioning last year was to adopt a nervous stutter.)