[newzjunkey]

I don't believe we can beat her. She needs only a simple majority.

Short of getting a filibuster or her having something "unacceptable" in her past, she will fly through. The RINOs, the BushBots and the Dems will see to it she is installed.

Bush knew what conservatives wanted. We know that because he used "Thomas" and "Scalia" in his campaigns. After the elections were over, he didn't care.

We can *TRY* to derail her nomination but I would not expect results. If anything that would make her even more palatable to the Dems. Shumer said as much in his comments today.

[indianrightwinger]

I am similarly resigned to the fact that she will be installed as a justice. What a disappointment.

[newzjunkey]

Even if she turns out to be the single greatest justice ever to sit on the High Court, this will have been the WRONG pick.

This strategy of stealth sets an abominable precedent. It's bad enough the canons of ethics won't allow us to know about judicial candidates we are supposed to vote on in local elections, to be rolling the dice at the SCOTUS level is irrational and smacks of political cowardice.