Judicial Appointments

Given my current situation, I have not been able to keep up with everything going on with the constitutional option as I should be, but I do (surprise) have an opinion as far as if and when the republicans should make it happen.

This is no time to be pussy-footing around. There are 55 republican senators representing this nation. Simply stated, the people of the various 50 states have spoken and voted overwhelmingly that they wanted the president's judicial appointments to have a simple majority up or down vote by the whole body of the senate.

That said, what I believe needs to happen, assuming the democratic minority goes with another filibuster, is to change the rules immediately. To do anything less will be political suicide. The people have voted to put a leash on this judicial system that has run amok. They are trusting the party in power to do what they (as well as some democrats)have promised they were going to do. If they do not, then they had better beware the next election. They could easily find themselves in the minority in '06.

If the democrats bring the senate to a screeching halt as Harry Reid has said, then they will find themselves in an even larger minority. There aren't enough left wing nuts out there anymore to put up with anything like that.

On another note, if John McCain votes against the rule change he can kiss his presidential bid goodbye. He is popular enough in his state that I don't think he would be in any danger of losing his seat, but his vote would look like a stab in the back to the republican base and they simply won't vote him past the primaries.