I agree and, It should, of course , be a concern. It was enough of a concern that the framers of the constitution decided to make it take the course it does. The senate, however, is concerned with one thing when appointing judges and , that is, 'are they qualified'?. Remember Robert Bork? Well, he wasn't qualifed and he didn't make it through. Bush wanted to nomimate Alberto Gonzales but, he changed his mind because the majority of senators, both republican and democrates told him it wouldn't come close to flying. Clinton attemped to have a couple that got turned down as well.

You can disagree with the justices on their opinions but, when you look at the court itself, you must admit that all the people on it are very well qualifed legal scholars. So, a president has the ability to nominate but that is where it stops.

When a supreme court nominee goes before the senate, it is grueling, to say the least. The senate and the house of representative is where yours and my opinions are represented, not the whitehouse. That is why I said what I said in my op.

Thanks for responding pt. I appreciate the dialogue.

Notice not many people are willing to take this on? That is because presidential politics is in fact boring, as I said before. The problem we have is, it is so important as we are seeing from the blunders made by these unqualified people whom have been elected, that people are dying and we are trully in a world of shit. We better get it together and start electing people based on the proper qualifications, or this situation is bound to get worse. We need to understand that when we want our opinions represented, we do that through our more local officials in congress and , when we want to be secure in both our power and our humility, we had better start electing a predident who can do the things I presented in my first set of questions...