Our SCOTUS prediction: Edith Jones.

I know that lots of law-talking folks frequent this blog, so a question: how does McConnell stack up to Luttig? I don't know much about McConnell, but he seems to be well-thought-of and is a strict constructionist by all accounts.

McConnell is good, but he's had fewer opportunites to prove it (novel Constitutional questions don't often arise out of the 10th Circuit).

Related: Does anybody remember the addresses of those great parody sites purportedly by those disappointed judges passed over for Miers? This is a good time to re-kindle.

Bush had better stop being afraid of the Democrats and start being afraid of his base.

Unless he completely bends over and takes it from the liberals, there is absolutely nothing he can do to please the Left. It's well past time for him to stop trying, G-D it! Time to be a leader again, Mr. President.

Oh, and that goes double for Congress.

Luttig is a straight conservative Scalia wannabe.

McConnell is an odd duck, an academic with some wierd ideas (possible constitutional right to polygamy, etc.). Professors love him tho, even the lefty ones.

I'm just glad we won round one of this.

Hey Ace, Insty has a link up to Neal Boortz who uses your top ten list for Err America, but sadly no link. You missed a second hand instalanch by that much, as Don Adams might say. If he was'nt dead. Which he is you know.

McConnell is, btw, very anti-Roe: he famously wrote an piece called "Roe v. Wade at 25: Still Illigitimate". Yup, that it is.

LOL. When news of this gets back to Franken, he just might challenge Ace to a fistfight!

Man, I'd pay to watch that go down.

Just think, Ace. Your crazy blog money may only be one celebrity (of sorts) bpxing match away.

bbeck:

That's why I'm hoping for a Luttig nod, although I'd be happy with Janice Rogers Brown too: both are very smart, capable jurists but have very "textualist" views (in Scalia's sense). A big donnybrook in congress might be just the tonic everyone needs to get rid of the bad blood.

It'll be interesting to see if the donks try to filibuster. I'm pretty sure they'll try with a Luttig or a Brown nod, so I'll be equally interested to see if the Republicans will break the filibuster.

Whatever happens, you're going to see some truly nasty stuff coming out of the Left. They've been holding fire while the conservatives were fighting amongst themselves, but that self-imposed cease-fire is over as soon as W. nominates his next pick.

How about Scooter Libbey for SCOTUS. He may need new employment soon.

Monty, only time will tell, but I hope you're right.

Bush tried to play it safe and he watched his approval ratings go down the toilet. Did he LEARN? Don't know yet...but one thing's for sure; if we Republicans had ALL played it SAFE -- like some of the posters here and elsewhere were suggesting, ahem -- then Bush definitely would not have learned SQUAT.

And, once again, that goes double for Congress.

Note to the Republican leadership: STOP BEING PU$$IES! because being pu$$ies has just made your numbers go South.

It'll be interesting to see if the donks try to filibuster.

You can count on it.

Whatever happens, you're going to see some truly nasty stuff coming out of the Left.

Can't be any slimier than the stuff I saw coming from the right over Miers.

McConnell is, btw, very anti-Roe: he famously wrote an piece called "Roe v. Wade at 25: Still Illigitimate". Yup, that it is.

Oh, yeah? Then I'm against him b/c I am so fucking sick of having Roe v. Wade shoved down my throat by both sides that I could fk'n puke. And I don't want to hear this b.s. about the dems having litmus tests boo hoo hoo when the right is just as bad, if not worse.

How about Scooter Libbey for SCOTUS. He may need new employment soon.

Okay, that's funny.

Justice Scooter. Nah, doesn't have the right ring to it.

I'd have trouble if I had to try to distinguish between Scooter and Souter.

The withdrawal of Miers was another victory for the conservatives. And, like bbeck* demands, it better serve as a wake-up call for the Republicans in Congress.

* Or should I say ddeck?

Let's make up by having a big conservative group hug! Also, Michael has volunteered to 'pull the train'.

I believe this “uprising” was the best thing that could have happened, not only for the hirelings in the Senate but for the conservative movement in particular.
We stood up and made it known that we weren’t happy with the Meirs nomination and they paid attention, especially the libs.

I believe we will get a nominee this time that will either provoke a filibuster and a constitutional smack-down or we will know exactly who is a RINO and who isn’t.
I see it a win all the way around

Let's make up by having a big conservative group hug!

Forget it. If it was okay to dig up 15 year old speeches to use against Miers, you can expect it to be done against the next nominee. However, it will be the democrats doing it and you will be in no position to complain. You thought it was fair to attack Miers for trying to get more minorities on the various boards in the Texas State Bar. Now you can expect similar chicken shit charges against the next nominee by the dems, and you won't be able to complain about that either.

If it wasn't for the Rhinos, the republicans wouldn't be in office. So, be careful for what you wish for.

Colon, what's the basis for your claim?

"If it wasn't for the Rhinos, the republicans wouldn't be in office. So, be careful for what you wish for."

Well, what I really wish is that people wouldn't confuse Repubican and Conservative and Rino with Republican.

If it weren't for the rinos(McLame and the malignant 7) then we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.

I am no McCain fan. But I am tired of people saying who is and who is not a republican; who can and who can not be a republican. Who died and made you God?

When a party wins, it is because a number of people crossed over or because people who are in the middle decided for one party over the other. But if you are going to be holding litmus tests, forget it. Let me repeat myself: I don't give a shit about Roe v Wade. It is a dead issue. It is not going to be overturned. Even Roberts has acknowledged that. I don't give a shit about principle because that ship done sailed 30 plus years ago. I don't give a shit if you think it is murder – don't have one then.

Colon, what's the basis for your claim?

What claim?

I don't give a shit if you think it is murder – don't have one then.

Ooooh. Did you get that off a bumper sticker?

You're so clever.

Ooooh. Did you get that stupid moniker off of some stupid lefty movie?

You're so clever.

we don't need a split in the base, the only thing keeping the guy afloat.

I disagree. The lowest that the MSM have been able to push his approval rating is still 40%. And that was with half of the conservative base whining about Meiers.

I think Bush has gotten the message though. He's now all kissy-kissy with the fiscal conservatives (we'll see if he follows through though) and if his next appointee to the SCOTUS is some they can respect then you'll see those poll numbers jump back over 50 and probably flirt with 60.

Ooooh. Did you get that stupid moniker off of some stupid lefty movie? You're so clever.

And you're a plagarist.

You do know that repeating someone's words back to them as a form of insult really doesn't work all that well, right?

Hm. At least your stupid abortion comment made sense. If we were in a flame war, I suspect you'd be in a corner, sucking your thumb and crying like a fucking wussbag.

Let's make up by having a big conservative group hug!

Okay! But can we PLEASE leave Hewitt out of it?

I don't give a shit if you think it is murder – don't have one then.

And if you think murder is just a very late term abortion -- don't commit one, then.

This passes for conscious thought somewhere?

And you're a plagarist.

And you're am asshole.

You do know that repeating someone's words back to them as a form of insult really doesn't work all that well, right?'

Worked fine on you.

Hm. At least your stupid abortion comment made sense. If we were in a flame war, I suspect you'd be in a corner, sucking your thumb and crying like a fucking wussbag.

None of your stupid comments make sense. I'm sure you're great in flame wars. In every thing else, frankly, you suck.

And if you think murder is just a very late term abortion -- don't commit one, then.

You seemed to have missed my point – I don't give a shit. I am sick of it being a litmus test for the right. I am sick of it being a litmus test for the left. I'm sick of hearing about it. The majority of Americans are sick of hearing about it. You are not the morals police.

This passes for conscious thought somewhere?

Pretending Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned some day is sure as hell not conscious thought.

Heh, I figured out who colon is: Hugh Hewitt. He's the only schmuck still fighting for Miers.

Nah. Hewitt wouldn't be too ashamed of his opinion to post under his regular moniker.

Eh, OK, the unhinged DJ Drummond then.

Last comment mine, not colon's.

I am sick of it being a litmus test for the right. I am sick of it being a litmus test for the left.

It isn't so much a litmus test as an abomination to the overwhelming majority on the right and a holy sacrament to the majority on the left. Just.The.Way.It.Is. Deal with it.

You are not the morals police.

Care to apply that to murder or rape while you're at it? The logic is paper-thin.

Pretending Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned some day is sure as hell not conscious thought.

I'll consider the source since you are pretending anything else follows from having an originalist majority on the Court. The fight is over the Constitution; terminating Roe is just one of the most obvious and satisfying byproducts.

Do we have a little sand in our panties this morning?

How I feel about abortion and how I feel about Roe are two entirely different things. Abortion is a complex issue, Roe is a simple one. Roe is the decision where the court most clearly went from interpreting the Constitution to "making shit up." We can't stand a whole lot of that and stay America.

Get rid of Roe, and then we can have that conversation about abortion. Together. As an electorate. Like we were doing before the courts butted in.