[rbmillerjr]

"So we can play Chicken Little every day over something we don't fully have information about yet? Maybe?"

The point remains the same...can any of the koolaid drinkers this fcomment on this for me?

If we have a 55-45 lead in the Senate, historically at the edge the widest margins...and we can't get a conservative confirmed...then we have settled(by the Bush strategy)...for never being able to get a conservative on the SC.

[MikefromOhio]

I just think it's funny that so many on this forum has roundly condemned her without knowing anything.

The more I see it, the more inclined I am to support her. Simply because everyone is screaming the same thing doesn't make it right, which was the case yesterday.

[Miss Marple]

That 55-45 number is good for getting tax cuts and committee chairmanships. However, let me give you this line of thinking:

We have three senators who will not vote for any pro-life candidate if there is a signiicant paper trail? Snowe, Chaffee, and Collins. If you had Brown as the nominee, your numbers would drop to 52-48.

Now, subtract the two Ohio cowards, Voinovish and DeWine. That leaves you at 50-50.

Now factor in the wild cards and backstabbers...Graham, Lugar, McCain, Hagel. You could be down to 46-54.

Why you think that 55 nuber automatically guarantees a win I don't know. Surely you can see the difficulties the President faces with the Senate.