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Normally, I'm one of those who are ready to tee off on the Bush is the worst president threads.

I've never known a Free Republic without the daily waves of trolls, compliments of DU and the LibertyPost. Of course, I've only been here since 2002. So, please don't take it personally if the first few posters reflexively threw the switch on old sparky.

I can't really go both barrels on anyone who is disappointed with the GOP. I'm frankly a little depressed right now. This is shaping up to be one heck of a BOHICA week for conservatives.

First, we have Senator Voinovich, who has apparently been in a coma, regaining consciousness in the middle of a committee meeting, and declaring John Bolton as unfit to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. I'm wondering why a Johnny-come-lately, who couldn't even be bothered to attend the first two hearings, suddenly wakes up and thinks he's Jimmy Stewart? I can think of two possibilities: live boy or dead girl. And then the genius piously proclaims he wouldn't attempt to push his views on his colleagues...in a letter published in the New York Times. WTF?

Then we move on to what some here are actually proclaiming to a be "conservative victory". The GOP currently has 55 of 100 seats in the House of Lords, plus the Vice-President as the tiebreaker.

Every single one of these GOP Senators was elected during the tenure of this President. There are alot of things that George Bush didn't run on, that maybe he should have. The Border with Mexico is the 400 lb gorilla, and there are some others. But one issue he definitely ran on. Judges.

No Republican who shared a stage with the man last fall can have any doubt about that. Every Republican he stumped for can't possibly have missed that one. Judges.

So, here we are, only seven months later. The only remaining roadblock to his nominees, most of whom have been in the pipeline for years, thanks to that little elf of obstruction, Tommy Daschle, is a two year old Senate Rule put in place by said little elf.

Where is Tommy Daschle now? Not in the Senate. He got canned for obstructing the President's judicial nominees. And what do we need to overturn that rule?

50 out 55 GOP Senators.

Should be fairly easy, right? The President ran on judicial nominees. The Republicans campaigned on judicial nominees. Tom Dashcle got sent to K Street, thanks to judicial nominees.

So, the one time when the obvious course of action is to come on board with the team for the big win, what do seven of our nitwit Hamlets do? That's right, they stab Frist, Bush, and 45 or so GOP Senators who are worth a crap in the back, and cut a craven deal with the Donks. And what a deal it was. Seven nominees get tossed over the side in exchange for three, and a vague promise from the Donks about the penumbras and emanations of whatever the hell "extraordinary circumstances" are. And it won't matter, because these seven Knights of the Republic, Arlen Spector on days when Scottish Law applies, Chuck Hagel when he's doing his Joe Biden impression, and whoever Voinovich is on any given day, would easily give the Donks a straight majority when it comes to a "controversial" nominee.

"Conservative victory" my ass. The Conservative Senators sure don't seem to think we won some sort of victory.

The Worst President ever? No way. 20% of our GOP Senators are so befuddled every time a Donk holds up a shiny object, they can't even manage to vote for something they were all campaigning for seven months ago. He's a better man then me. I'd be vetoing every piece of legislation that had anything in it for any of these seven.

There has been some speculation that Bush has been misunderestimated, and that we're seeing another Rope-a-Dope. I'm something of an afficionado of the old Rovian Rope-a-Dope, and I'm just not seeing it. You shouldn't have to Rope-A-Dope your own party to get the routine appointment of judicial nominees accomplished.

Maybe the Donks really are stupid enough to turn this around for us. But it's not because of the GOP master plan.

Seven RINO opportunists blew that one up on the launchpad.

Thanks, guys. Three straight GOP victories in elections, in large part due to all of us rightwing "extremists" you Peers of the Realm constantly rail against, and this is how you choose to repay us. Hope that the fifteen minutes of fawning coverage from the NYTimes and Katie Couric is worth pissing away a historic opportunity for the GOP to start reversing the leftward slide of the courts.

And of course, that courageuous maverick, Lincoln Chaffee, just couldn't help himself. He had to give us that last little poke in the eye by casting his meaningless vote against today's nominee.

I don't know about the rest of you, but my problem isn't with the President, and it's not with the party. It's with our merry band of RINO parasites who are only there for us when it's time for us to write the checks for those campaign contributions.