[fieldmarshaldj]

Murdered her child because hubby ran out, what a monster Mz. Michelman is.

[beyond the sea]

But Alito replacing O'Connor on the high court could mean a new majority for parental and spousal notification as well as restrictions on the partial-birth abortion technique.

Good!

[Cboldt]

The carefully wrought Democratic master plan to stave off a conservative Supreme Court is in ruins. Massive filibustering of appellate court nominees, instead of intimidating Bush in Supreme Court nominations, resulted in the formulation of tactical means (the "nuclear option") to counteract filibusters.

The tactic of cloture abuse remains unresolved. I do believe that it was partly in play in the nomination of Miers, as Senate leadership (Reid, Frist, Specter and Leahy) advised the President that she would not be subjected to cloture abuse.

The tactic has also resulted in the "stranding" of the following nominations for Circuit Courts of Appeal:

• Myers (9th Circuit) - Out of Committee on March 17, 2005
• Boyle (4th Circuit) - Out of Committee on June 16, 2005
• Haynes (4th Circuit) - First nominated on September 29, 2003
• Neilson (6th Circuit) - First nominated on November 8, 2001
• Saad (6th Circuit) - First nominated on November 8, 2001
• Kavanaugh (DC Circuit) - First nominated on July 25, 2003

AP Report Reid wants to filibuster Haynes & Kavanaugh - May 28, 2005
Fox News Report Reid will filibuster Saad & Myers - May 29, 2005
Boyle was nominated to 4th Cir. in 1991 too, by GHWB

Yep. That old "nuke in the box" sure did speed the nominations through the process of voting up or down. "Getting along" is more important than "getting it right," when it comes to the GOP-lead Senate. Frist was more angry that Reid puller Rule XXI out of the hat without advising him first, than he is over the fact that the Democrats abuse cloture to get over on the President.

[G.Mason]

Novak? Is he still getting published?

[George W. Bush]

But Alito replacing O'Connor on the high court could mean a new majority for parental and spousal notification as well as restrictions on the partial-birth abortion technique. These are what strategists for the Alito confirmation call the 70 percent issues -- where 70 percent of the public favors the conservative side.

I read a recent poll indicating that 72% of the American public favored Alito's dissent in Casey in favor of spousal notification. Among Democrats and self-identified liberals, the number was over 60%.

The Left can howl all it wants but it's very hard to oppose Alito on Casey.