[PeterPhilly]

"There's a bunch of political wrangling going on. They saw this as effective with getting Daschle out of office, and they're hoping that they can get what they want anyway. And if the Dems block again, to make it a National election issue in the next set of campaigns. It's not a bad strategy, it's just a frustrating one if you're not patient."

Oh good....we don't actually want to confirm judges....we just want something we can use in fundraising letters. I have proposed this before(in conjunction with the Republicans refusal to deny Arlen Specter the Judiciary chairmanship)and it works just as well now. Every time you get a Republican fundraising letter, just return it with a short message stating that no funds will be forthcoming until they actually start to enact the policies they ran on. If you hit them in the pocketbook, maybe they'll listen. They take us for granted because they assume we have nowhere else to go. We could probably get them 65 Republicans in the Senate and they'd still find ways not to act like the majority party.

[Political Junkie Too]

Oh good....we don't actually want to confirm judges....we just want something we can use in fundraising letters.

I think the gist of his post was to use the heightened publicity of a Supreme Court fight against the Democrats. In a bit of political Judo, make them filibuster a Hispanic pick, or an African-American pick, while the whole country watches. Then, if polls show that the public supports Bush, then talk about the nuclear option.

-PJ