Bush likely will have two vacancies to fill on the court but will only get one..ONE!..fight out of the weak-willed Republicans in the Senate. That fight needs to take place at a much more advantageous time than now. One such time would be closer to mid-term elections to force HRC's hand--thereby neutralizing her moderate makeover--as well as motivate the base to turn out and vote.
Unfortunately, what happens this summer will be old news to too many of the instant-oatmeal generation by 2006.
It's taken a long time to get where we are now. Think strategically, think patience. Repeat: whether we like it or not we are constrained by RINOs in the Senate.
Remember: a fair portion of our victories over the liberal left have been because of their overreaching...not our collective resolve. Let's not repeat their mistakes.
That's not true. The problem is that the President has over and over again let the Democrats and RINOs have the microphone. He needs to go over the heads of the media and explain to the public why these guys are wrong. If he's not willing to do that, then our side will keep losing battles.
Remember: a fair portion of our victories over the liberal left have been because of their overreaching...not our collective resolve. Let's not repeat their mistakes.
It's been because of the left's irrationality, not "overreaching". You're implying that there's some kind of moral equivalency between the right and the left. Not so.
I have a perhaps inappropriate question. If Specter does't win this battle he's going thru with cancer and has to resign or he passes on .. who becomes Chairman of the Judiciary Committee? We would hope, of course, that Specter does well in this fight for his life, whether or not he continues in the Senate.
However, if there's to be another vacancy or two before the '06 elections, and if there's any real possibility of the GOP losing control of the Senate in those elections, and if Specter is not chairing Judiciary, I am very intersted in who would be heading up those hearings.