Then why are Luttig, Owen and Rogers Brown still cooling their heels on the sidelines?
He may not be a coward (that remains to be seen) but he's apparently a weenie.
LBJ was a Big Government socialist, but he knew how to corral his party to get what he wanted done. Bush runs and hides when threatened by the likes of pasty northeastern losers like Jeffords, Snowe, Chaffee and Collins.
Bush is a poker player and he's playing his cards to maximum effect. He knows that he will likely get to replace Stevens, who's 85 years old, and has a better than even chance of replacing Ginsburg, who is still in ill health after being diagnosed with colon cancer in 1999. It's possible that he'll have to replace someone else as well.
Be of good cheer and think for the long term. I see Luttig and Brown being on the SCOTUS before the next presidential election.
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He hasn't hidden at all. Right out there today in the Rose Garden making his case.
I have a good feeling about this woman, and just ask my children if I am hardly ever wrong.