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Please see posts 45 and 78 for an array of factual data to substantiate my position. Even study the voting habits of RAT senators Feinstein, Feingold, and Kohl, among others, both in committee and on the floor.

We will get our judges -- district, circuit and USSC -- whether Specter is chair or not.

The electorate has spoken, and these Senators will defer to the President, particularly during 2005-06. The circuit court filibusters are over, and any filibusters of Supreme Court nominations will be unsuccessful if attempted.

We will begin by working off the backload of stalled circuit court nominees, and the pace of confirmations will pleasantly surprise conservative activists.

I think people are overlooking the importance of this. The Massachusetts Supreme court cemented in the publics eye what judicial activism meant and what strict construction is all about. The Massachusetts Supreme court did us a huge favor. The public was watching and they didn't like it one bit. This directly works against the Democratss trying to filibuster judges that are presented to the public properly, that is they interpret the law not make it up. What Bush was saying is he saw this and is going to use it to build off of. We would be wise to follow his lead.

It also works in favor of the appointment of a strict constructionist as the next chief justice. It's beginning to look like this battle will be sooner rather than later. How does Chief Justice Thomas sound to you?

There will be filibusters over Supreme Court nominees that are conservative, and they will have the support of 40 disciplined Democrats, and maybe a few GOP Senators who are adamantly pro-abortion. This will be the Rats last stand. If they lose this battle, all is lost, because there will be 3-5 Supreme Court appointments in the next 4 years.

Rehnquist will be a wash, O'Connor will be a gain, Stevens will be a gain. That gives Scalia 5 votes to work with. That has effects on Roe v. Wade, on issues involving separation of church and state, on criminal justice and the death penalty, on civil rights and reverse discrimination, and a host of other things near and dear to liberals hearts. They CANNOT let this happen, and the battle will commence with the first nominee. Every Rat special interest group will be going ballistic and DEMANDING that the Senators filibuster. There will be phony witnesses, a la Anita Hill, that will give dissenters something to hang their hats on. There will be daily, relentless pounding by the NYT and WaPO, CBSNBCABCCNN.

They may know it will hurt them in their races back home, but to go along with the end of their judicial power will be the end of all they have worked for since they began their deconstruction of American society in the 1930s. They will fight, and we cannot let them have some tools that will allow them to win. Advice and consent means 50 votes, not 60. We better understand what is at stake, and what the Rats will do before we waltz into 2005 all arrogant and confident.