[rollo tomasi]

"...I proceed to lay it down as a rule, that one man of discernment is better fitted to analyze and estimate the peculiar qualities adapted to particular offices, than a body of men of equal or perhaps even of superior discernment."

Bush and you guys problem is the advise and consent process started before a nominee was even chosen. Miers was on the "list of surrender to compromise" remember. That is why Reid was pleased (Not that he will vote to confirm). Reid knew Bush consented to the compromise thus confirming what Hamilton and the Founders thought was not the best idea.

If Miers was the best Bush thought then I trust his judgment even less. Plenty of Scalia and Thomas "clones" out there but Bush had to pick someone from the "list" who will be tarred and feathered if any case involving the Bush Administration comes before the court.

[ez]

Bush and you guys problem is the advise and consent process started before a nominee was even chosen.

I don't have a problem. I recognize the President's right to choose the nominee, and I support her, since she doesn't suck.

[ez]

Reid knew Bush consented to the compromise thus confirming what Hamilton and the Founders thought was not the best idea.

The Founders gave the Senate the ability to stop an onerous pick, and I will admit that cronyism was high on their list of undesirables, however, since they did, for the President to make political calculations as to what nature of nominee could be affirmed, is not a problem, but is the smart thing to do.

Demanding prefect adherence to the agenda in the face of staunch political opposition is the stuff of fools or rabid partisans.

Because the Senate did not have the stomach to defeat the judicial filibuster, Bush is left with the political landscape is it is, as much as we don't like it.