Ok, I've finally made up my mind. I like it, though I'm influenced by Judge Owen's confirmation, and this, and this. The NOW criticism of President Bush's judicial nominees contains not one single talking point about respecting the Constitution, and many about "women's rights" and anti-corporate cases. Maybe Judge Owen was wrong, maybe she wasn't, but it isn't how to choose a judge. It's just ideological crap, "give me what I want or you're an extremist". Give me a confirmed quote that Priscilla Owen doesn't respect the written Constitution, and I'd support a vote to throw her overboard. At least the UUA Washington Office respects the deal, now they're just trying to get their loyal subjects to phone their Senators to vote no. Funny thing is, I actually did that a couple of weeks ago. I called Senator Lautenberg's office to say "Stop the filibuster - if you don't like the nominee vote no, but end the filibuster now". Seems my phone call fell on deaf ears. No compromise for him, he (and 17 other Democrat Senators, including NJ's Senator Corzine) voted against cloture even after the filibuster deal came down. Not even Senator Clinton is that dedicated to obstructionism. Move on already! Now let's vote on Janice Raymond Brown and William Pryor. And I'd like to see Justice for Miguel Estrada too.