Re: "if Republicans opt to break with the precedent they set under the Bush adminstration and attempt a filibuster, several Democratic senators could very well defect and deny their party the 60 votes needed to overcome the maneuver."

If?

If?

What's with this "if"?

Of course Republicans will filibuster the nomination: any nomination from President Obama. No matter what.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hanity would demand no less. And 100% of Republicans in the Senate, with only the two possible exceptions from the Northeast, will obey orders and vote to sustain the filibuster and, should cloture be invoked, vote against the nomination

That is what Republicans do.

Guaranteed. 100%.

One of the most expressive quotations about Jack Kemp that I heard linked his Football days to his presidential campaign. It described both Mr. Kemp and the state of the Republican Party (then and now).

It went, "Jack Kemp has showered with more African-Americas than most other Republicans even know".

Re: "unless Republicans decide to break with their previous stance on using the filibuster of judicial nominees. "

Unless?

Of course Repubublicans will fight whomever President Obama nominates. No matter who it is.

Rush Limbaugh will settle for nothing less.

James Dobson will demand it.

FoxNews would have nothing for Glen Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Rielly to become enraged over without it (actually not. The FoxNews team will remain outraged regardless of the reason).

NewsMax will not be able to fabricate lies about people's past without a nominee.

Texas Republicans will not have another reason to dismember the United States without it.

Count on the Republicans to reverse any and every previous commitment they made in order to continue the hate and obstructionism.

How else can Republicans demonstrate that they should really be running the country?

Every week the Republicans must accuse President Obama of a greater crime than the last. Now it is actively, consciously making the United States less safe.

By the end of May, Republicans will actively be tossing out Treason accusations. By June they will be introducing impeachment bills.

By July or August, republicans will be actively calling for the violent overthrow of the US Government.

Why is it that we continue to hold Democrats accountable for the sins of Republicans?

The fact is that the Republican party has made it official policy that they not only approve of torturing prisoners, The Party encourages it, regardless of its efficacy or even if the prisoner is likely to know anything at all. Republicans just like the idea that human beings are being tortured. They have moved beyond not caring what happens to “other” people to actively enjoying the suffering of those same “others”.

Why is it that no one in our country will confront Republicans, who claim they are of a higher morality, with the ugly truth that they are completely lacking in souls?

If anyone, anytime attempts to hold anyone holding a Republican party voter registration accountable for any crime whatsoever, the entire party will unite behind that person, no matter what the crime, and block any criminal prosecution: Now and forever in the future. That extends to torturing human beings. And, if we want to get out of our current economic depression, the price Republicans will extort for not shutting the government down (which they can still do), is a Free Pass for their criminals. Unfortunately we will have to pay that price.

And yet we continue to declare that these sins are somehow all the Democrats’ fault.

Why?

He mired the US in a wasted and incompetent occupation of Iraq.

He let Osama bin Laden get away. And was on record as not caring about it.

He made the United States officially stand for torture.

Through Karl Rove, he made hate an official part of public policy.

He took the world's almost complete support after the September 11, 2001 attacks, including Iran, and flushed it down the toilet with his "Axis of Evil" speech.

It is truly an example of the extent to which Republicans "create their own reality" when the Wingnut declares that George W. Bush was such a great president and did not break anything.

This from the party whose govenor of Texas want's to destroy the entire United States via dismembership? With not one single Republican in the country disagreeing with him?

The Republicans will certainly fight this one tooth-and-nail.

They jut won't broadcast what he actually says.

Instead Sean Hannity and Glen Beck will tell their audience what Barak Obama "meant" to say. And we all know what that means.

Republicans no longer feel the need for anything they say to have even the slightest connecton to the real world.

1. They believe the TV show "24" was a documentary.

2. They believe that Saddam Hussein planned the September 11 2001 attacks. And that the WMD's wer actually found in June 2003.

3. The believe that Barak Obama is a Muslim, from an Islamic school.

4. And they believed that "The Decider" was sent by God to rule and protect America

5. They believe that the election of Barak Obama is absolute proof that popular elections are no longer a desirable method of selecting Presidents.

Republicans have been acting on items 1-4 since 2001. Now they will begin acting on item 5.

The problem that Barak Obama has is that the Republican party has sworn 100% alegience to everyone in the Bush Administration and will paralyze the government if any Loyal Bushie, any time, is ever help accountable for anything. (Not that they aren't 100% negative on Barak Obama anyway).

President Obama has, apparently made the second-worst choice by trying to get the US out of a Depressoin. It stinks, but I understand why.

But when is anyone going to start holdig Republicans accountable for protecting criminals as part of their official party platform?