Reply #5: Nothing's stopping Bush from doing so [View All]

[jmowreader]

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.