[RWR8189]

It will be the office of the President to NOMINATE, and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to APPOINT. There will, of course, be no exertion of CHOICE on the part of the Senate. They may defeat one choice of the Executive, and oblige him to make another; but they cannot themselves CHOOSE, they can only ratify or reject the choice of the President. They might even entertain a preference to some other person, at the very moment they were assenting to the one proposed, because there might be no positive ground of opposition to him; and they could not be sure, if they withheld their assent, that the subsequent nomination would fall upon their own favorite, or upon any other person in their estimation more meritorious than the one rejected. Thus it could hardly happen, that the majority of the Senate would feel any other complacency towards the object of an appointment than such as the appearances of merit might inspire, and the proofs of the want of it destroy.

Federalist No. 66

[neodad]

he was confirmed on a vote of 97-0.

All I need to know about Prado.

[NormsRevenge]

Personally.. I'd go with..

Janice Rogers Brown..

Michael Luttig..

Edith Hollan Jones..

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The dems are doing what they do best, pandering for votes.

[Dr.Hilarious]

It's interesting how the party that tries to convince everyone that we're in a pure democracy--that if Bush rejects their suggestions he's somehow not "including" them in something they have no part of--keeps flailing away to no visible result. I have complaints about how the republicans have done some things in the last few years, but I can't see how anything they've done wrong has really benefitted the dems. The Democrat party truly is the whining-till-they-get-something party.

[Tax Government]

I heard McCain and he sounded like a mad hardass this time. Elections have consequences, he said. The President will nominate, and then get an up-and-down vote in the Senate, not a filibuster.

What McCain didn't say, but what we all know, is that DEMOCRATS ARE SCUMMIER THAN SLIME.

[AntiGuv]

Sonia Sotomayor was regarded as John Kerry's likely #1 choice for the Supreme Court..

[John Lenin]

Don't you have to win a few elections and be in charge to name court picks ?

The RATS live in total denial of their situation.

[Echo Talon]

IF we must have a Hispanic whats wrong with Miguel Estrada?

[REDWOOD99]

"The officials spoke on condition of anonymity.."

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find that the dems are leaking to the press!

[doug from upland]

I'd love to see this Hispanic on the court --

[AntiGuv]

BTW, I read in some other articles that the Dems also recommended U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo Hinojosa as an option. Although that sounds like a kiss of death, I've seen his name bandied about before as a potential replacement for Rehnquist, and he's supposedly regarded as a conservative. I don't know much else about him, except that he chairs the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

[pepperhead]

Sonia Sotomayor? The dims were floating her name in 2004 if Kerry won. They got to be kidding.

http://www.civilrights.org/issues/nominations/details.cfm?id=25534 http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/glb_news_article.php?id=11010401 http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2004/vol8n44/Media3-en.shtml

[Jack Deth]

Dear Dumbocrats:

You LOST!!!

You do NOT get to pick Nominees!

The President DOES!

Jack.

[Mo1]

Well gosh Golly Gee .. wasn't that nice of the dems ..

[John Jorsett]

So, the Democrats are dictating the terms of Bush's surrender. The fact that the President even lets these arrogant horse's patoots into the White House just astounds me.

[CGVet58]

Golden Rule in this, as in all other matters regarding the body politic:

If the dhimmis like something, do the exact opposite.