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And let’s not forget that this is not “vote for the Republican” then sit back passively and fume.

When conservatives were unhappy with the Meyers nomination, they raised all kinds of hell. We should go into this committed to do that again when necessary, and comitted to “educating” our congresscritters that we expect them to hold the president accountable, ESPECIALLY if he is in “our” party.

The idea that it’s better to be in the minority is just crazy. We have zero chance of influencing the administration then. But if we let our congresscritters know we EXPECT them to be on McCain all the time, we will start to change the culture in Washington AND keep positioned to influence things.

My battle cry is “Remember Harriet Meyers!” By that I mean: remember, if we hadn’t had a Republican president, we would have never been able to raise enough hell to get a Supreme Court nominee ditched. At the same time, our outcry provided political cover to Bush & the administration-—everyone in Washington understands that that amount of constituent outrage boxes in politicians and gives them power.

We can and must do that again whenever necessary. And, again, the only chance of such grassroots political pressure working is within our own party, when our R congresscritters can go to the R president and say “we’re not going to lose our jobs for you.”