Make me an offer (not you literally, GWB and the GOP - and tell it to me straight).
The rulers want us to accept the political process of stealth. Where the Senators and the people are satisfied with being uncertain, because certainty or convicion would erupt into a fight over principle.
I reject that system of government, and demand transparency. I want to see conviction expressed in certain terms, not "code words" and focus group tested "buzz phrases" like "strict constructionist" with no more. SHow me the money.
I reject the premise that a President should choose nominees, under the constraint that the Senate can at a whim set the hurdle for confirmation, now at 60, to whatever level it chooses. That is absurdity - and yet the chattering class and sheep go baaah bahhh .... cluck cluck cluck. The president is supposed to have a simple majority, up or down vote, after airing out the principles and convictions of the nominee in no uncertain terms.
Those who settle for less are not preserving the Republic for their posterity.
When I was a child I came to believe that America was great because it was the marketplace of ideas. That was the #1 reason in my mind then, and I want it to be now.
Kennedy, Clinton, Schumer et. al. regulated the market with a power grab filibuster, and then the Gang of 7 gave them credibility, effectively closing the marketplace to anyone but those who escaped their definition of *extreme*.
If conservatives and the GOP don't get it soon, America will no longer be great.