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Oh pod, I'm not blinded by emotion, I hope I am blinded by common sense.

I do not trust our President to a fault, I hope, but rather to the degree that he has earned my trust, and that degree is very high.

I believe him to be one of the most courageous, direct speaking, deeply faithful and tremendously wise leaders I have ever had the peaceful comfort and genuine gratefulness to experience.

There is probably no one in America who cares MORE about placing strictly constitutional Americans within our highest court than this President. These judges he nominates, if confirmed, will be making rulings WHILE our President is still a sitting President, there will be hugs accountability he will have to face should any of these folks trash the constitutional framework our highest court must support.

I also believe in a FAIR FIGHT and a PUBLIC HEARING before I rant and wail and throw in the towel regarding ANY human being nominated by this particular President And especially because Harriet is a person not known in the public spotlight. She is an unknown, not to the President, but to all of us.

That I am willing to wait and listen to her, to hear her MYSELF, is not placing blind trust in anyone, imo, but rather is taking an approach that is fair. And to me, this matters. My President has earned this willingness to listen before casting aspersions, at least in this house.

And President Bush has earned at least this modicum of respectful patience to a great degree considering the fact that I respect and deeply admire and have come to trust the amazing people he has chosen to oversee the federal agencies and courts within our nation.

Our President is fallible, he sure is, ie. he is hesitant to go after our border problem full bore because, I am guessing, congressmen and women and senators are pressuring him to avoid any drastic action, fearing a backlash at the voting booths. Democrats are in the same rotting row boat, here.

I know our President walks a fine line between doing what he knows is right and juxtaposing each action in relation to any damage such action would cause at the voting booth-the ( horrific ) destruction to our nation should we lose the majority in our house and senate in D.C.

It is tough stuff.

And our President has had the back of our military, the back of people like me who absolutely respect him to his very bone marrow for staying the course and he has gracefully fought a war on two fronts....terrorism and liberal traitors and dishonest and willing to distort news by a corrupt media. ( billy the out of control clinton never had to fight the mainstream press...folks like katie colic, dan blather, etc were forever kissing his fat arrogant arse, slobbering over it, in fact. Some rapists just get all the good luck. )

I admire his decisions. I admire the people he has chosen to surround himself with and to lead the various gov agencies and I would NEVER EVER be willing to accuse our President of hiring anyone he believed was the LESS THAN THE VERY BEST to serve our nation for the shallow, dangerous reason of rewarding cronies. Super HUGE HOGWASH.

That is such an insult to the terrific leadership of this ethical and moral and courageous leader that I refuse to even consider it...he has NOT EARNED such an insulting and degrading criticism....it stinks on the surface and it stinks all the way to the core of the idea.

So there! < and of course, hugs, because you know I have stood with you in DC and think the world of you, sauropod.

Can well understand you for not giving Harriet the chance (she most SURELY deserves as our President's choice BEFORE blasting her credentials and philosophy, imo) before she testifies before the judiciary committee (Pod-can do we really live in a world where slugs like kennedy and schummer are able to sit in judgment of genuinely good people of incredible integrity? Surreal stuff!)
After all, Pod, you have the company of thought by some of the best conservative thinkers in America, including Judge Bork.
But you do not have ALL of our conservative thinkers in your ball park. You just have some of the best :^)

One of us is wrong. I hope it is not me. But I will wait until I know more about Harriet before I decide she will be detrimental to our highest court, drifting leftwards and trashing our foundations, as it were.

And if she appears wishy washy, afraid of the uncivilized senators who will attempt to berate her in front of the cameras, if her temperment or answers chill me, I will be right here calling for her to be voted down in committee. >