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So then you agree with Chucky Schumer that we need to know this nominee's judicial philosophy before we can vote to affirm her?

Before you buy a car, you do kick the tires, open the hood, try out all the option before you buy it, don't you? Well, that's the same thing with knowing the philosophy of the judges you put up there on the Supreme Court or any court. They can be there for 20 or 30 years, just look at the damage the Warren Court has done to us and we are still fighting the cancer that thing has caused down to this very day. I have to agree with Chucky Schumer on this one (yuck) but we do have different standards in what we are looking for, but the thing is, we need to subject her to the process much like any job interview and more.

Someone said a while back, maybe President Bush wants to get Souter a date. B-) He's an old goat, she's an old maid, well, maybe we will see sparks fly. B-D Occam's Razor anyone? B-)

Seriously, I think the President shot himself in the foot while driving over a land mine on this one, the best solution is for her to withdraw, which is a possibility but I'm not holding my breath.

I have to agree with Chucky Schumer on this one (yuck) but we do have different standards in what we are looking for, but the thing is, we need to subject her to the process much like any job interview and more.

You do understand, of course, that until 4 years ago when Chucky said he will now consider the ideology of the nominee, that it was taboo to probe judicial philosophy. So I'm a big boy, I get it, picking Supreme Court justices is now a political exercise. Why shouldn't this tradition of our country be destroyed with all the others?

However, I will submit that, if this a job interview, the President is the interviewer and the hiring agent, and the Senate is the only arbiter of that decision...NOT THE BASE.

If your side wishes this nominee to fail, you should be petitioning your Senator to vote NAY, and NOT engaging in self-destructive calls for her withdrawal.

I'll stick to what I said when the left was filibustering Estrada...The President's nominee deserves an up-or-down vote.