Well, technically, the liby judges have every reason to stay after Alito's confirmation.
The court will be split right down the middle: Alito/Roberts/Scalia/Thomas (assuming they'll stick together) : Breyer/Ginsberg/Stephens/Souter with Kennedy being the swingman.
We need one more vote. Kennedy will vote conservative occasionally, but he seems to side with the liberals a bit too often for my comfort. I would think that the libs are going to hang on until they croak or maybe until they have a Dim president or at least a Dim senate.
That works too..
I don't know for a fact that Roberts is a conservative. His relatively easy vote in the Senate makes me wonder. And Kennedy is no "swing" vote. As far as I'm concerned, on the critical issues we conservatives hold dear, he's a complete disappointment. LOL, let's not waste any more appointment opportunities. It's not impossible for the Dims to be voted back into control of the Senate, esp with Jorge Bush stepping in dog crap every chance he could last year, (Harriet Myers? Good grief!). Let's go for the gold ring, soldiers. As they say when on jury duty, "we aren't here to make friends."
Do you think that the Pres. will get anymore appointments to the Court in the next 3 years? And if so can the Republicans hold on to the Senate for in November?
God, please let it be soon.