[George W. Bush]

That's accurate; because they blue-slipped 'em. They never even let many nominations come up for consideration by the Judiciary Committee.

Oh, please. Let's remember the Clinton mob a little better here. How about Partial-Birth Foster and Teach-'Em-To-Masturbate Elders? How about Lani Guinere (sp)?

The GOP Senate gave plenty of passes to crooks and wackos. Too many. They even let Ginsberg, the old ACLU radical onto the Court without much fuss.

This isn't even remotely comparable. Estrada isn't even very conservative. Kind of RINOish, in fact.

Any white GOP judge with the same background would be confirmed instantly. The Dems are worried about keeping the Hispanics on the reservation. They're confident that they've got the blacks in the Mandingo position. But Hispanics are upwardly mobile. The danger to the Dims is that Hispanics will realize the real opportunity they can have in the GOP, especially since Bush is a very Hispanic-friendly El Presidente.

[Kryptonite]

Klintoon put almost 400 people, many of them (as you note) who were complete wackos, onto the bench in the federal system.

When Bush has put the same number of people within the federal system, maybe the whining won't fall upon deaf ears.

But more important is the scorched earth tactic of a filibuster against a minority nomination - it just screams racism, partisanship, un-Americanism, etc...... and nobody, not Frist, not Santorum, not Hatch, not even Bush, is making the dims pay by launching full frontal media blitzes. Instead, they're leaving it up to Rush to carry the load, and he's doing a great job of it, but I'd like to see the Party be much more aggressive. This has got to stop.

[virgil]

I agree that the GOP should be less limp wristed with democrat court nominations. The dems want to bias the courts because it is their preferred way to legislate new laws...by judicial edict. I think most Americans believe that laws should be passed by Congress. Democrats are not very democratic.