[Dave Olson]

If he blows the nomination ...

If he had a record of doing that, I'd be worried. But considering that he's already nominated people like Estrada, Pickering, Brown, Owens, and Pryor for the circuit courts, I don't see him going squishy now for the Supreme Court.

[meandog]

If he had a record of doing that, I'd be worried. But considering that he's already nominated people like Estrada, Pickering, Brown, Owens, and Pryor for the circuit courts, I don't see him going squishy now for the Supreme CourtMy money is on Janice Rodgers Brown for O'Connor; and Priscilla Owens for Rehnquist. And the RATs will have a hard time bringing up their "extraordinary circumstances" clause seeing as how both were recently confirmed.

[WoofDog123]

judge appts. are one of the areas he does things for his conservative constituents. There are a couple of others (tax cuts come to mind, unilateral foreign policy), then a whole slew where he is a fortune 100 republican.