Here comes that slimeball Reid. I'm going to puke.
SOLUTION: Even if a Jusitice retires before 2005, don't nominate another Justice until 2006, when we have 58 or 59 or 60 Republican senators, some of whom would replace the RINO squishes. The republic will not fall apart if the Supreme Court case load gets reduced (in fact, it would likely benefit America.)
With an effectively fillibuster-proof majority (effective even if under 60, because there's still a couple moderate Dems) we can nominate who we want, as against President Bush nominating another Souter just because he's the only kind of character that can make it past the squishes.