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To: LindyBill who wrote (109759)	4/16/2005 8:54:45 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793717

The ones being picked are mainstream by most standards. Enough that they are approved by the left-leaning Lawyer's asssociation. When they came up for conformation, the Dems points were really nit-picks. You'll find a very long piece in tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Magazine which disputes this. I say that even though I haven't read it but the headlines are such that. . . . I'm saving it for when I can think my way through the forks in the road. Oh, yes, about half way through the Ignatius novel. Not bad; not bad at all. But certainly not in the Graham Greene Le Carre class, despite what Thomas Powers says. I love the Kuwaiti CIA station chief whose cover was as the agricultural commissioner.

To: LindyBill who wrote (109759)	4/16/2005 9:03:40 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793717

The other point is "why in the hell should they be allowed to enforce a "super-majority" vote on the Senate?" If you look at the world throught partisan-colored glasses--a big partisan tug of war, that makes perfect sense. But if you are focused on good governance, it's a dangerous distraction. There is a huge pool of candidates out there. Do we really need judges who can get 51 but not 60 votes? Would you run your company that way? If you have an ample supply of qualified candidates, you hire the ones that your management team can agree on, even if that means passing on a few that struck your fancy for some reason. That's how you build a solid company. Or a solid judiciary. They won't approve anything now but a flaming liberal. So all the ones that they've been approving are flaming liberals, huh? LOL. They'll approve nice, non-flamboyant conservatives. Give them some fresh ones.