[TLBSHOW]

After several failed attempts by Senate Republicans to break a Democratic filibuster, it's starting to look as if Miguel Estrada may never make it to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The controversial Bush nominee may have to settle for the strangest of consolation prizes: his name plastered on bumper stickers in the 2004 election.

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Some prize! and Owen and Pickrering too? Is their fate to be names on bumper stickers?

[BOBTHENAILER]

Some prize! and Owen and Pickrering too? Is their fate to be names on bumper stickers?

It ain't over by a long shot. The lynching of Estrada, the rape of Priscilla Owens and the backstabbing of Pickering after the local NAACP backed him, are all gonna add up to a huge loss of credibility with those constituents they claim to be the champions of.