I understand this mentality of holding onto power when you've got it, I just don't agree with it.
If you throw out your principles to hold onto power what good is the power? You end up as a RINO, a Democrat-Lite. Worthless and pathetic. And you've sold out the people who supported you, but then tell them they have to continue to support you because the alternative is worse.
Just cause you support something doesn't mean you need to immediately deliver on it once your in office.
You have to wait till conditions are conducive to push your agenda, otherwise, you engage in a futile effort and you get bruised.
And, it is my personal belief that one of the liberal judges, despite W, and everything else, will indeed resign from office in 2007-2008, and so that is why I am taking my position, because we know certain GOP Senators we can't count on their votes for nominees (Snowe and Collins), so we cannot afford to lose Senate seats, and thats what we risk by being too bullish on certain issues. Address them yes, but don't make them the centerpiece of the agenda. Our domestic centerpiece right now should be energy, because energy could serve to kill us.
With the exception of giving more authority regarding LNG terminals to the FERC, the Bush energy plan is basically a good one, and we need to be spending our time working on that, working to pull back some environmental regulations so we can reopen capped wells and refineries, etc.