[Ol' Sparky]

Sometimes it comes down to just "faith and trust" alone.

Why? With 55 seats in the Senate, there is no good reason that we shouldn't be getting a known quantity. That so many conservatives are willing to accept a stealth unknown and have for 25 years is the reason the Supreme Court is the mess it is and will continue to be.

[Hank Rearden]

With 55 seats in the Senate, there is no good reason that we shouldn't be getting a known quantity.

Now, now. You know very well the Republican Party can't possibly accomplish a damn thing without a clear 100-seat Senate majority - and maybe not even then.

It's going to take many years, and hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign donations, to motivate these guys.

So pay up, shut up and vote Republican all the way. Trust 'em.

[TheDon]

It's not the quantity of Senators, but the quality that counts. Have you already forgotten McCain and his band of 14 "moderates"?

[FreeRep]

Because I trust the President and that brings me to trust his choice of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. What we are learning about Harriet Miers is genuinely encouraging. She has been identified as an evangelical Christian with deep Christian commitments.

[clawrence3]

Even if you had written assurances from all 55 GOP Senators (including all the pro-choice RINOs) that they would vote for a Justice who is on the record for overturning Roe v. Wade, we still would need 6 Dems to prevent a filibuster.

[olrtex]

Conservative Republicans do not have even 50 seats in the Senate. We do not even have the Chairmanbship of the Judiciary CXommittee, for that matter.

[jebanks]

With 55 seats in the Senate? You put that much faith in our Republican senators???

[Digger]

Why? With 55 seats in the Senate, there is no good reason that we shouldn't be getting a known quantity. That so many conservatives are willing to accept a stealth unknown and have for 25 years is the reason the Supreme Court is the mess it is and will continue to be.

Because this is politics & in this "Two-Party Cartel" that the elites control by money & influence, their objective is to never allow the true conservative agenda from expanding to fruition. Since GW became president I have on numerous replies stated that there will not be a true conservative SC when GW leaves & because of the previous reason. Both parties need to be thrown out & new parties with OUR interest first should be formed. So we stay with these 2 lossers & this is what we get.

[Castlebar]

Why? With 55 seats in the Senate, there is no good reason that we shouldn't be getting a known quantity

It doesn't take 55 seats.

It doesn't take 60 seats.

It takes 102 (political) testicles. Are you sure that they would be there to break a filibuster and enforce the constitutional for, say, Janice Rogers Brown?

[get'emall]

Only Ginsburg and Breyer have been nominated by the 'rats.

This problem has been brought on by bad Republican decisions.

[Enchante]

We don't have 55 seats in the Senate, there are easily 7-8 RINOs who cannot be counted upon to support the 'constitutional' option. Without that, any Luttig-Brown-Jones-McConnell type nominee faces a very uncertain if not hopeless prospect. A lot of people seem to prefer going down in flames on this - without a filibuster-proof majority Bush judged that this was the best nominee who could be assured of confirmation (if Republicans don't tear the Senate caucus apart first). I'd rather see Miers now and take the gamble on trying to smash a filibuster on Bush's 3rd nomination (which is a near-certainty before the end of his term) than gamble now and have the RINOs cave to the 'Rats..........

[TUAN_JIM]

With 55 seats in the Senate, there is no good reason that we shouldn't be getting a known quantity.

I second that. There were only 43 Republicans in the Senate when Thomas was confirmed, and he had to overcome all that Anita Hill b.s. The American people are not happy with activist judges or the Democrats judicial obstructionism (ask Tom Daschle).