[MEGoody]

"Clearly, Bush was given fully opportunity to exercise his powers to make the appointment during the recess but failed to act."

I wish Bush would do this too - just appoint all his nominees during the recess. After all, he has done this once already. But then I think about what we might be in for down the road, if he sets a precedent of appointing every judge during the recess.

The answer is that Frisk needs to get a backbone. He doesn't have one - and I'm not sure any of the Republicans in the Senate do.

[AMNZ]

You are right re: Frist. I thought he was going to be better than Mr. Nice Lott. These guys have apparently had to fight in life and therefore they are useless to us.