Sandy P.

I agree, but since Judges are in a way battled by proxy through Senate confirmation, the Republican controlled Senate is where the fight is. What is truly wrong is that constitutionally the Senate is meant to just confirm these Judges, the Founding Fathers desired the Executive Branch to appoint the Judges he desired. The Senate is really charged with making sure treasonous and corrupt ones didn’t get appointed, obviously Miguel Estrada doesn’t fit this category, so if you follow my 1:54 AM post(yes that’s 4:54 AM here in the east), this is really a Senate fight and part of the desperation of the MSM and Democrats, so the MSM suppresses the story. This is no doubt blatant misuse of the filibuster, yet they feel they can get away with this.

All the above being said however it is important to note the last thing I said about the MSM and Democrats having lost their fear of Bush. A 40+ State mandate with large popular vote totals would sure cure this, in fact short of this it will worsen. My guess is that the public will decide at some point that government is too polarized and will give one Party a clear majority. This will happen when either…

1) More of the majority of white’s that vote Republican go with Democrats or

2) Significant numbers of minorities decide the GOP is not the boogyman the MSM allows Democrats to paint them as, though their behavior shows they buy into the stereotype as well.

Therein lies the struggle, obviously Dubya knows this and has appointed people of color and is courting the Hispanic vote, the truth is while some Conservatives may struggle with such pandering they should yield to Bush on this because his instincts are right. In fact he is right for multitudes of reason I won’t get into now.