Yes Lowell I don't need to tell you this, but with Rush and Pat Buchanan happy as a clam now the conservative base is salavating, infact they probably hope that McCain has health issues so they can get 8 years of Palin in. And as I stated earlier in a piece which no one probably read, which is okay, the Supreme Court going all the way to the right will have a humbling effect on this country. Can you just imagine who Palin would nominate to the Court?

To your point, it is amazing how much money the GOP has raised since McCain added her to the ticket. It goes to show that the far right really does run the GOP.

McCain/Palin appoint the most right-wing judges,when Democrats control a majority that might increase in 2008?  

The question is whether or not the Senate will confirm them, and that comes down to how much backbone the Democrats have, as well as how big their majority is.  Let's get the Democrats to 60 votes and we won't have to worry as much, but the bottom line is that there's no way the Democrats will be able to stop all the right-wingnut appointments to the bench that a McCain/Palin administration would come up with.

People tend to focus on Supreme Court appointments and a handful of Courts of Appeals appointments where just as often as ideological issues, a senators real problem is one of personal or political pique.

But a judiciary gets remade over several terms, and while these higher court appointments are obviously significant, the hundreds of appointments to the district courts and the courts of appeals are, collectively, very important. Among other things, these people will be the pool of available Supreme Court and Appeals Court judges for the next generation.

There is really no way for the Senate to prevent a president from tilting the judiciary ideologically toward his or her party because, in one the few intelligent things our Deal Leader has said, elections have consequences.

The simple fact of 12 consecutive years of GOP rule, whether it is an extremist like Palin, a panderer like McCain, or even a true GOP moderate like, uh, like...well, I'll think of one later ... will have an effect no matter how aggressive Democrats in the Senate are.

If there is any good news in all of this, many of the judges who will leave positions over the next generations would probably tend to be GOP appointees from the Reagan/Bush years, so it might be more of an opportunity lost than a big rightward swing. But that is just a sense of it on my part, as I haven't looked at any hard data on this.

Why is it that regardless of who the person is or which Party they are aligned to it gets tobe all about abortion and the Courts. Its absurd for people in the republican Party or anywhere else to vote on an issue that will not have any real politcial currency. Dems control the Congress and will gain in the Senate for sure so its a dead issue, unless as Lowell says the Dems there lack the "backbone" to prevent it. Its like looking at whether a 72 yesar old will die or not, when was the last time that happended exactly to us due to medical reasons. What worries the Senate healthcare plan is the best around and the model for campaign policy right? The arguements made by Hillary against Barack Obama cannot simply be dismissed. They are valid from an experience point of view. I have no real doubt that Obama willo be sworn in in January, but the fact remains experience issues are baseless in the grand scheme of things as the least experienced President in modern history (Barack Obama) when compared to his predeccessors will be sworn in.
I think its rather funny how many in the media are somehow making this election about Obama and Palin...did I miss something? Should it not be about Obama and Mccain in reality.
As Andrew Sheppard said "you better stick with me cuz Sidney Allen Wade is way out of your league"...maybe Obama would be better served just sticking to John McCain.

The Democratic netroots brought America Jim Webb, and Barack Obama. The Republican netroots brought us the least qualified vice presidential candidate ever, during a very dangerous time in our history.  

There may be two trains rolling, but one of them is the Old 97  

not to mention his ictchy wedding ring!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I hope Faux brings out its body language expert to break that down for us.

and not just once but over and over.  

until someone pointed it out to me.... :)

caregivers need to keep a close eye on in the nursing home rec room.

Hope this video goes viral.