[Can i say that here?]

How you answer that question is a gauge of how wrapped up around the axle you will get on this issue.

In fairness to the folks screaming on this issue, I wonder if the conservative base is just getting tired of having to sneak in the backdoor all of the time.

For instance, Harriet Miers. Did Bush really want Miers, or was it a run around to put Roberts in? If he really wanted Miers, you have to wonder about his judgement. If it was a ploy to get Roberts up there, when in the world are we going to be able to act like the majority party?

I'm not foolish enough to think that I get politics, but some times, all this strategery just wears people out.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

when in the world are we going to be able to act like the majority party?

When the MSM starts covering the Republicans like they actually won.

When Republican politicians grow gonads.

When pigs fly.

[Miss Marple]

I prefer to think that Harriet Miers was a mistake, chiefly because of misjudging how much the conservative media twits would get in a snit.

Everyone makes a bad call now and then. I once bought a pair of hot pants; yet everyone today knows me as a woman of good taste.