[Cboldt]

... especially after conservatives have completely abandoned the original Constitution's intent that the President's nominees be given an up-or-down vote.

I'll hound you if you keep pushing that without the counter-argument.

There is a difference between a President pulling his own nomination based on pressure from his friends; and the Senate refusing to give a decision up or down on a nomination that the President and his supporters advance through the process.

There is no hypocracy in objecting to the latter while engaging in the former.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

There is a difference between a President pulling his own nomination based on pressure from his friends; and the Senate refusing to give a decision up or down on a nomination that the President and his supporters advance through the process.

I would agree with you, but Meirs withdrew herself, the president didn't pull her nomination off the table...

Now as far as the up or down vote... the Senate needs to stop the cocktail parties, television appearances, etc. and get to work... today, not next month or so. (The President should force the whole Congress to stay in session until a vote is held, he has the Constitutional authority to do so.)