[DAC21]

I'm sure it was someone else mentioned it somewhere in these 700+ posts.

Could it be that Frist / Spector has told the President the RINOS will bail on the like of JRB?. Lets face it, we have more than 5 RINO's on board, especially the jokers from New England. Can we count of enough DEMs to put us over 50 ??

For now I'm giving the President the benefit of the doubt in that he and his staff knows what they are doing. Maybe with Miers we get a stealth JRB without the possibility of losing the vote.

[caseinpoint]

That is how I am approaching it. I give President Bush the benefit of the doubt. Here he has a problem with RINOs and the brutal beating he has suffered from the press over Katrina. The democrats have everything to gain by stalling the nomination for any reason they can find and the longer Justice O'Connor sits on the bench, the more we have to lose. I think he has some strategy in mind.