[blanknoone]

How do you propose that we 'make sure they pay a price for this'? Let the rest of the nominees flounder without a vote? Do more of the same? They are not going to pay a price for this. If the senate and president were willing to make an issue of it...Estrada would have been handling cases a year ago.

[hchutch]

I'd suggest you look at section9's comments in Post 127.

Plus, consider the fact that between the three seats that were lost by third party runs over the past three elections and a blown runoff in `02, we had ZERO margin for health issues or family crises. Slade Gorton would have voted to end the filibusters. Having TWO Republican Senators from Nevada as opposed to the current Reid-Ensign split would have helped. Having Thune in the Senate over Tim Johnson would have helped. Having Susie Terrell in over Mary Landrieu (who flip-flopped on Estrada) would have helped. But too many people (including some Freepers) still pass on this BS about "no difference between the GOP and Dems" and as a result, we deal with crap like this.

But do the third-party types admit they made a mistake? Nooo....