Bush's plan for the blogs and SC

[brettdale]

Perhaps Bush's plan is to nominate the most right wing person judge to the Supreme Court that he knows will be knock down and will never be selected , just so the blogs and the media will talk about it for months and it will take coverage away from ROVE, The DSM and the new Torture photos.

[DWolper]

1. Roberts will win confirmation

Unfortunately, you are forgetting who is in power. The GOP will vote it out of the judiciary and he will be confirmed by the full Senate. Filibuster? Forget it. The Republican majority would just go with the nuclear option and halt the use of filibusters in judicial nominations. The numbers aren't there to block John Roberts. We must face the facts, all the bitching in the world can't stop this nomination. Blogs or no blogs. This is the system, it's how it works, and 2008 will give us a chance to elect a Democrat and we get OUR picks. That's just the way it works. We knew this was coming after the '04 elections.

[wli]

2. time for a mass exodus

but to where?

[Nia Zuri]

3. Don't think he will be confirmed

The GOP doesn't actually want Roe overturned. It would be disasterous for them. The prospect of his nomination is just a carrot they dangle to the Christian right. This nomination is to appease that faction, count on the GOP to allow this nomination to fail. An added bonus is the endless distraction & directing attention away from Plame. Endless speculation over the next five weeks. (Just like we're doing now). You know MSM and us Americans in general can only focus on one issue at a time.

[DWolper]

4. Except that....

Roberts is only "acceptable" to the Christian right. He was not one of their top three picks. He is known as more of an "establishment conservative." If the plan were as you described, he would have selected Luttig, Jones or Rogers-Brown.

[jmowreader]

5. Nothing's stopping Bush from doing so

I figure Bush is counting on...

1) Bush picks someone who's "acceptable" to the Christian Right. The Senate Judiciary Committee turns down Roberts for one reason: he's never been a judge. His whole career has been clerking and lawyering; he's never even been a justice of the peace.

2) Bush chooses one of DWolper's picks to replace Roberts.

3) The Democrats get pissed off and start to filibuster; Frist goes nuclear.

4) The Democrats then shut down the Senate for everything except budgetary items, and all of the Democratic bills are just LOADED with new taxes.

...and then...

5) The all-new Janice Rogers Brown Supremes decide not to hear an abortion case that's presented to them--they've got a lot of other liberal things to get rid of and the case presented won't give them the opportunity to overturn Roe--and all the pro-fetus people move to the Libertarian Party.