I know what former President Reagan would say, but I decline to raise that argument here. It seems we have a disagreement. A 'less contentious' and 'more collegial' Court is a very good goal indeed. Bush could do a lot worse. The alternative is for Congress to spend the next year or eighteen months debating your keystone issue.
We have the Presidency. We have both houses of Congress. We have a majority of state governments - both governerships and legislatures (I believe). Yet a single 5-4 decision from SCOTUS can render all of that meaningless on any given issue. If the left wants a 'less contentious' and 'more collegial' Court, it is their obligation to fall in line behind us and cease their obstructionism. We have both the Constitution and the will of the people on our side.
Should we not be allowed to undo the damage that liberalism and judicial activism has wrought on this country? And if not now, then when?