any SCOTUS nominee who would vote to toss Roe v Wade - will automatically activate the "extradordinary circumstances" concept. what happens to these 3 judges that pass, and the ones that don't, is damn near meaningless. will the Rs on the compromise team change their minds when they see a SCOTUS nominee being blocked? You would suspect that would have come up in the discussions on this deal. It surely did, and you can be sure that the Dems have it in their back pocket - none of these 7 will peel off when the battle for the SCOTUS is at hand. It may not happen with Rehnquist's seat, because replacing him with a conservative is an "even trade". Try and replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Owens or Brown, and watch what happens.
I hear what you're saying, but ANY SCOTUS nominee that isn't in the Souter mold, no matter who he or she would replace, will activate the "extraordinary circumstances" concept.
This is where we come in. We can say whatever we want now, to hold these barstards feet to the fire, and we can target the RINOs wherever we can replace them in the primary. We can do everything but stay home and/or throw races to the rats to "punish" the republicans. That's actually the same kind of wishy-washyness they're showing up there now. No, what we can do is to slowly and inexorably keep driving the dagger in further and further until the Marxist/Leninist Liberals are driven from the political stage. It won't happen overnight. But the American people are on our side.
BTW. It wouldn't hurt to take over one of the MSM organs. Do you think it would be possible to target one for takeover by conservatives and then have us go out and buy up the stock no matter how high the price went? Then vote out the management and demand conservatives? Certainly we couldn't buy GE or Disney, or Time Warner, so NBC, ABC, and CNN are out. Viacom is probably also too big to capture. Are any of them small enough to catch? Maybe a Newspaper? Or are they all megaloplexes.