WITH Webb Taking VA, Does this mean we can relax on JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS?

[berni_mccoy]

Bush is going to have to select moderate-to-liberal judicial candidates to get them through committee.

It's such sweet irony that the evangelica's own hypocrisy (Haggard) has cost them the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court.

[MadMaddie]

1. Yes....Thanks for reminding us...whew.....

The * mandate is over....

[Hippo_Tron]

2. Hopefully Shrub doesn't get another Supreme Court appointment

We can breate a sigh of relief with control over the Judiciary Committee but I'd MUCH rather have a Democratic President making the appointments to the judiciary committee.

[deadparrot]

3. Assuming that we can get all the Democrats (plus Holy Joe) in line,

then yes.

[berni_mccoy]

4. We don't need to in order to keep the appointments dead in committee

We only need 7 Dems to do that.

[kath]

5. Yes, but will all the so-called Dems *on the committee* stay in line?.

Seems like it's nearly frickin' impossible to get a party line vote out of the Dems... :-( :-( :-(

[bowens43]

8. We're Democrats, we don't get in line and we certainly don't stay there.

That's the difference between us and them.

[kath]

10. well, they damn sure should have gotten in line over things like the

torture bill.

[WI_DEM]

6. No, we'll have more say, but we can't relax

not with some of the moderates in the senate still like Lieberman, Nelson of NE and Landreau who might back Bush's choices.

[bowens43]

7. We can stop the nominations in committee.

Those we don't like will never get to the floor for a vote.

[seabeyond]

9. NO... president gets to appoint judge. it is not about dems

saying any judge that doesnt meet liberal agenda is not qualified. not the way it works.