Yes, it made them very angry, but it did NOT bring us together. It demoralized a whole lot of people; though not me. I'm still VERY angry about that.
Okay, let's take your scenario. Instead of Miers, let's pretend that the president sent in Luttig. He's VERY Conservative and is one of Chief Justice Roberts' best and oldest friends. He hets roast for all of that, plus that fact that he isn't a woman. This drags on for almost a year.
O'Connor wants out and wants OUT now.
They finally Bork Luttig, his name and reputation are ruined.
So the president then sends up ....who? Brown?
Repeat performance.
By this time, O'Connor has had it and leaves. The court is now 1 shy a Justice.
By this time, it's time for the '08 race, so no matter WHO the president sends in, that person is DOA, so that the DEMS assume the next president, whom they think will be a DEM, gets to select the replacement.
Ergo, we lose quite a lot; actually. And what if Ginsberg and/or Stevens decide to leave or die in the meantime? Both ARE possibilities.
And if you don't think that this scenario is probable, then you are mistaken.
yes, it's possible.
But I don't see any democrats with the guts on the judiciary committee to attack a black female who's the daughter of a sharecropper, as well as being ten times smarter than all of them put together.
If they did, it would further destroy the democratic party.
Besides, all that's a really moot point, because GWB didn't even try. You try, you fail, you renominate. And every time you do send up a qaulified, real conservative, it energizes your base and exposes the dems when they try to fillibuster.
Wow.
Good post.