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regnaD kciN

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Sat Mar-04-06 01:15 AM
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6. Great! However...

...you'd not only need a simple majority in the House, but you'd need 67 votes in the Senate.

As far as I know, even if the Democrats won every single Senate race this November (a near-impossibility) they'd still have less than 60 votes. You'd need a significant breakaway among conservative Republicans for the purpose of removing judges who would represent their philosophy and replacing them with judges who didn't.

In other words, not a chance unless there's such a realignment that Democrats can virtually sweep the Senate races in both 2006 and 2008. Until that point, we're stuck with who we've got.

:-(

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