[nonliberal]

Reagan never had control of both houses. Reagan never had the opportunity to get good conservatives in the majority and instead worked for RINOs. Bush did.

Bush helped Specter against Toomey, Ganske against Salier, and IIRC he helped Lincoln Chaffee against a conservative challenger.

[Coldwater Creek]

Reagan also deserted our Marines. You can bet the G. Bush would never do that.

[jackbenimble]

Reagan never had control of both houses.

Yet with only 45 Republican Senators (many of whom were Rockefellar types) he was able to get Scalia confirmed. And with a similar Republican minority, Bush Sr. was able to get Thomas confirmed. Thomas was a battle royal but what is wrong with that? Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe.

Now with 55 Senators some of whom are admittedly RINO the President won't even try to get one of our superbly qualified judges confirmed? That is spineless!

[zeugma]

Bush helped Specter against Toomey, Ganske against Salier, and IIRC he helped Lincoln Chaffee against a conservative challenger.

Worth repeating. I remember those races well. I still don't understand his support for Specter.

He got the RINO senate he asked for, and now has to deal with it.

I'll be really suprised if Meyers turns out to have any consistant philosophy as it regards interpreting the constitution. She'll end up being another "swing vote" so we will, yet again, have no idea what the court will do on any given case or issue. About the only thing I'm reasonably sure of is that she's thoroughly anti-abortion (which seems to pull a lot of weight with the President). Unfortunately, abortion isn't an issue that really fires me up either way. I would like to know how she feels about property rights and emminent domain. That would tell us more about how she views the constitution than what I've heard so far.

Remember folks, if she's a lousy justice, there will be nothing that can be done about it once she's been confirmed.