[Cboldt]

How would you feel about an 8 person supreme court where the next President has an immediate chance to name a justice?

You mean if Harriet Miers loses confirmation, we get to elect a new President?

That sure changes the calculus.

[gondramB]

" You mean if Harriet Miers loses confirmation, we get to elect a new President?

That sure changes the calculus."

Actually I meant that the kind of conservative the President's critics are asking for might have stalled the confirmation process so long that the seat was still open in 2008.