[A'elian' nation]

I don't know the answer to my own question, but if there is a SC vacancy (by death) is Bush required to fill it ? Better to have a 4-4 deadlock than appoint a squishy valueless moderate that you know will vote against you.

If I were Bush I would send up one Judge Bork after another knowing the rats will reject them, and I'd keep it up until 2009 when the next Republican president can appoint the ninth judge in a hopefully more conservative climate.

[TexasPatriot8]

Yes the vacancy has to be filled. But I don't believe Bush has it in him to put up one conservative judge after another. With the Congress being all Democrat, Bush is a hunted man. Rumsfeld is gone and the Democrats don't even have power until January. The Democrats will go after Bush. All this, "lets just get along" crap is a joke. They'll go at him soon as they can, and the media will under report it to protect them from the November '08 elections.

[TexasPatriot8]

That's it. I'm out of here. I've had enough of this. The Democrats will force a pull out of IRaq too soon, the government will collapse, radicals will take over, and Iraq will be like Iran and Syria, Afghanistan will fall not long after and we will have wasted 4,000 military lives and five years because the American people went gutless before winning the war. America is far more in danger from terrorism because of this election. Someday people will see what a mistake this election was, but it will be too late, and after many lives are lost.