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couldn't be more accurate than your scenario.
so shall it be.

in addition.
10 x 100 = 1000
1000 hours of debate over these judges that frist is agreeable to, when divided by 40 hour work weeks, means that 25 full congressional work weeks would be required to get these judges through. Of course, they would be unable to work on ANY other business in the meanwhile, so a 20 hour per week schedule for judges would be the maximum. meaning 50 weeks. or a year.

Now add for the scheduled legislative breaks, and take away the typical legislative breaks, and you have almost two years of delay till the last of ONLY TEN judges are confirmed. Add in a natural disaster or two, emergency interruptions due to the war on terror... and the fact that 1/3 of the Senators will begin building their campaign run later in this years end... plus two supreme court justice vacancies, in this same period,

and you see the bottom line.
these judges will not all be confirmed or voted on, because of the 100 hours of debate, for another two or three years.

and we may very likely NOT have the senators in place to win the votes after the next election. the conservative base of anti illegal immigration, permanent tax cuts, smaller government, less government intrusion, islam is NOT peace, close our borders to illegals... 'conservatives' is just not that happy with our progress.

If we truly intended on governing, we would have cut the party of communism's balls off the day after the new Senate was sworn in. We didn't, and we don't have the desire to do so now.

Republicans are NOT conservatives, it appears.
Go nuclear NOW this weekend. REFUSE to recess until the dems are castrated politically... and make this Friday the 13th MEAN something to future generations of socialist democrats.

I'd love to be wrong. If I'm not, and the Pubbies blow it again, it won't be because the party is not conservative, but because the Senate Republicans are a dysfunctional lot. That's where we will need to concentrate, and where we will need to have the willingness to take some tough actions. We need primary challenges to the RINOs, and this time, President Bush needs to support the conservative. We need to withhold funding to RINOs, and to the NRSCC. The Senate conservatives need to form a Conservative Caucus, and make membership exclusive, tied to actual conduct in the Senate. Only those Senators will be deserving of our support and donations.

Finally, the Conservatives within the Senate need to assert themselves, the way they did when they almost kept Specter from getting the chair of the Judiciary Committee. Threaten to hold new caucus votes where the committee assignments are shuffled, based on party loyalty. They got Trent Lott out on such a vote last session. Why not do the same to Voinovich and Chafee and anyone else who joins with the Dems in blocking the agenda of a Republican President and a Republican House of Representatives.

I guess it's unfortunate, but 55 Republicans does not give us Conservatives a majority in the Senate. There is no party loyalty among the liberal wing (the "rump minority") of the GOP. We therefore need 50 Conservative Republicans, and we are about 5-8 Senators short. Until that day happens, hopefully within 2 election cycles, the liberal wing should not be treated as a part of the GOP, but as a separate party, with which we have a coalition in the Senate.