It boils down to money. Move-on has lots of it and Reid wants it.

This is the Dems accepting their total irrelevancy in the next nominee vote. If someone like Roberts can't get their support, then no one can. So any real effort should go into making sure the GOP Senators from Little Canada (Collins, Snow, Specter, Chaffee) and points beyond (McCain) don't get their fragile egos bruised and so keep the total above the necessary 50. At least until the Dems demonstrate both a willingness and an ability to return to the civility that put Ginsberg on the court.

The real question is whether the Stupid Party can finally figure this out.

Speaking of civility..."The Stupid Party?" Impressive. Name-calling is just so...impressive.

We are the Stupid Party. Democrats are the Rational Party.

Anonymous, in case it wasn't clear (and it probably wasn't from context), the "Stupid Party" is this site's term for the Republican Party. (Really.)

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
-John Stuart Mill

We may not be too smart, but we do try to be gentlemen.

Yes, it's a beloved moniker -- we stole it from John Stuart Mill and sucked out the malevolent intent. Kinda like how the colonials stole the derisive "Yankee Doodle" from the Brits and made it their own.

There have been just three Republicans considered to be smart in the modern era--TR, Hoover and Nixon--all were bad presidents. Meanwhile, Coolidge, Ike, Reagan and W were considered idiots and are our best presidents of the past hundred years.

This is rich. I'm changing my mind about the anonymous trolls after all. Definitely worth the price of admission.

Hey, at least he learned something.

I guess this means some of us need to start keeping the delicate sensibilities of trolls in mind when making comments.

Yep. By "Stupid Party" I meant the Evil Republicans™. A term used with pride. It's something called "self-deprecatory humor". Some of us use it to keep reminding ourselves that the GOP has an uncanny ability to throw away sure victories and huge leads, and so we can take little for granted from them. It's as if they want to disappoint. (It's the same sort of talent Chicago baseball teams exhibit. Go Sox!)

I would never call the Dems "stupid". Mean, calculating, conniving, underhanded, venal, preening, pretentious, sanctimonious, intellectual, deceptive, duplicitous, border-line seditious, and possessors of grimy shriveled little souls, but never, ever stupid.

(Mill? I always thought the term came from someone like P.J.O'Rourke's observation that "without stupidity, the GOP would have no leaders, and the Dems would have no supporters.")

Raoul: Actually, I fully expect McCain to go all out to make sure whoever Bush nominates gets confirmed. If he takes the lead in ensuring that a solid social conservative (or two...) gets through, the base will forgive him for pretty much everything they don't like about him and he'll win every primary on his way to crushing Hillary in '08 (unless she's smart enough to see it coming and decides to hold off).

Raoul, I'm surprised at you. You forgot condescending and arrogant.

If McCain proudly champions Janice Rogers Brown, Harry Reid will have more than a minor stroke.

And Nancy Pelosi's face will fall off. "Ms. Pelosi, how can you oppose someone who received 76% of the vote in being re-elected to the CA State Supreme Court?".

Bush is now free to nominate Jones, Cornyn, Brown, McConnell, Luttig, Thompson, Pryor, Owen, or any other fine conservative. A few chucking references to the Senators and their show-off trials is all that will be needed to expose the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. But Specter is the key, because he probably won't vote for Brown, Jones, or any other conservative without his privates in a Presidential vise.

h/t Ace of Spades.

Lt. Gen. Russel Honore isn't stuck on stupid.

"Roberts and Bush
At the same time when Judge John Roberts was hearing a case brought by a U.S. military officer against the president regarding military tribunals, the judge visited the White House to be interviewed for a promotion. After the judge decided the case in President Bush's favor, the president nominated Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It was unethical for Roberts to continue to decide this case, and it was unethical for the president to proffer the promotion in the middle of his own case.
And can anyone guess the reason that Roberts, a judge for less than two years, should immediately become the chief justice of the highest court in our land?"

ew:

So the President could overturn Roe by offering Stevens and Ginsburg jobs in the Administration, forcing them to recuse themselves?

How many years did William H.Taft serve as a judge before he became Chief Justice? Or Earl Warren? (I realize they held some other jobs, and would be interested on how those would bear on their qualifications or disqualification, too.)