Let em filibluster... the agreement breaks down.. the nuclear option is applied and a qualified canidate makes the bench... and the END of minority threats of filiblustering court nominations.... which should not be able to filibuster in the first place.
This is exactly another point she made with Rosen.
Mike agreed that President Bush should have nominated someone like Luttig, McConnell, Rodgers-Brown, but he will be supporting this nomination of Harriet Miers now that she is the nominee of President Bush.
That would be great BUT the partial birth abortion ban case is coming up this session and we can't have a nominee bogged down in a Senate fight and allowing OConnor to vote on this important case. That's one of my theories.