Bush will not get another SC or Appeals Ct. justice confirmed. He'll have to recess appoint all of them, even the Supreme Court, and then hope for a GOP president in 2008. That's the best he can hope for, unless he wants to start nominating Dems. Eisenhower tried that, and we got Wm. Brennan.
Reagan got Antonin Kennedy through in 1988 with a Democratic Senate.
RATS will tie up all appellate judges but will not risk a vacancy on the USSC for political backlash.