Here's a prediction...His next Supreme Ct. nominee will be Alberto Gonzalez, or maybe Harriet Miers again. I think we can forget about having a strong conservative nominee to the court.
probably the biggest tragedy of this election long term will be no more conservatives on the bench
You think he's going to swing left?
If he takes that road, he's stupid. Conservatism always wins, and we just saw the inverse of that rule.
I really wish this administration would get a clue.
A DEm senate won't take a very conservative USSC nominee seriously. He or she won't get out of committee.
Bush has been largely ineffective since winning re-election. Unless he and Rove figure out a way to improve their communications strategy, Bush will become a certified lameduck.I hope this election puts to rest the Rove-Is-A-Genius theory.
Basically, the Rove proposition goes like this:
Concede all the issues to the media and the rats, and make up for it with "organizational muscle".
That was the plan, and that was the failure, and the failure was built into the plan.
An across-the-board filibuster in a closely divided Senate will do that. One of the things that has irritated me over the last couple of years is that the word "filibuster" has largely disappeared from the MSM. The typical storyline has been "Senate rejects" or "Senate fails to pass" or "Republicans fail." This has been coupled with the by-now casual assertion in many stories that Senate rules require 60 votes for passage. And so the "ineffective Republicans" theme was sold.
My prediction for the next two years: the word filibuster will be revived, and the stories will all be about an obstructionist Republican minority.