Scalia needs to be made Chief Justice or he may retire as well, and who could blame him.
In addition, we need two new justices with solid, conservative credentials, as we've been promised in the last two presidential campaigns.
This is the most critical moment of President George W. Bush's second term.
Agree completely. And, there's the possibility of four slots opening up. Somebody had better ram a piece of steel up Frist's backside and take Grassley off the hunt for the $700 toilet seats for a while.
What worries me is that Dubya and Rove let Specter get the judiciary chairmanship, DESPITE the howls of outrage from the base.
These guys have lost touch a LONG time ago with what they were sent there to do. Witness the Specter debacle.
As much as I hate to say it, my money is that Dubya caves on this. And, if he does - the Republican party as we know it will go down in **FLAMES** in 2006 and 2008. MILLIONS - if not TENS OF MILLIONS of conservatives will simply stay home out of complete and total disgust if Dubya breaks his promise, like his father did in the "no new taxes" flub.
The wrong move here, and we're looking at President Hillary in '08, gang.
Dubya CAN'T be that foolish - but sometimes the elitism and arrogance extends even to our own party.
We need some leaders who start doing what we sent them there to do.
Who would miss him after his wimping out over using a marijuana case to knock a leg out from under the New Deal?