The truth, yes, but the whole truth?

Craig Gilbert reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Judge John Roberts met with Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) to discuss President Bush's nomination of Roberts to the United States Supreme Court.

But when it was over, the Senate Democrat realized how little Roberts had revealed of himself.

"He speaks very well. He speaks a lot. He responds to you. He wants to engage you. And God bless him, when he was done, it was like, 'What did he tell us?' " Kohl recalled last week. "Nothing."

The context is the issue of what are proper questions for a nominee to a judgeship, and whether earlier hearings set a precedent.

Hatch [Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) argued that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rebuffed a variety of questions at her hearings in 1993. That didn't stop Ginsburg, who was nominated by Democrat Bill Clinton, from sailing through her confirmation. ...

Kohl said Ginsburg was reticent about many issues in her 1993 hearings, "and she got away with it."