While we're keeping score, in the spirit of your inquiry into whether Mr. Bush has gotten any of his appointees confirmed, have a look at this:

It comes complete with numbers, just in case you don't believe it.

Also, an extensive quote from here, exactly one year ago:

Today President Bush is holding a private fundraiser in North Carolina and complaining about the few judicial nominees who have not been given hearings by the Republican-led Senate, when he should be commending the Senate for confirming nearly 200 of his judicial nominees. One-hundred-ninety-eight of his judicial nominees have been confirmed. This number of confirmations is higher than the number of judicial nominees confirmed during President Reagan's first tem, during the President's father's presidency, and during the final term of President Clinton.

With these confirmations, there are only 26 vacant seats in the entire federal judiciary, which is the lowest level since the Reagan Administration. Senate Republicans more than doubled circuit court vacancies and raised overall federal court vacancies to more than 100 from 1995 through early 2001. Vacancies have been greatly reduced with Democratic cooperation during the last four years. Vacancies have been cut by more than 75 percent and judicial emergency vacancies have been cut by more than 60 percent from what they were.

During the1996 session, when President Clinton was seeking a second term, Republicans allowed only 17 of his judicial nominees to be confirmed all year and blocked all of his circuit court nominees from being confirmed. This year, the Senate has confirmed 29 of President Bush's judicial nominees, including five circuit court nominees. . . .

. . . The situation in North Carolina illustrates this history of Republican obstruction and the Bush Administration's determination to try to pack the courts. During the Clinton Administration, four nominees from North Carolina to the Fourth Circuit were blocked by Republican Senators, and they never got a hearing or a vote. United States District Court Judge James Beaty would have become the Fourth Circuit's first African-American jurist. According to The Charlotte Observer of March 8, 1996, "He is an excellent judge, partly because of admirable qualities that make him an ideal candidate for judging others. He rose from humble circumstances and eventually graduated from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law. Admirers say he is an ideal judge and citizen: even-tempered, hard-working, fair, serious, intelligent and unfailingly polite."

Judge Beaty never got a hearing or a vote from Republicans in 1995, 1996, 1997, or 1998. United States Bankruptcy Judge J. Richard Leonard also never got a hearing or a vote in 1995 or 1996 on his nomination to the Fourth Circuit, nor did Republicans give him a vote in 1999 or 2000 in his nomination to the district court in North Carolina. North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge James Wynn never got a hearing or a vote on his nomination in 1999, 2000, or 2001. Had Judge Wynn been confirmed he would have been the first African American to sit on the Fourth Circuit. Law Professor Elizabeth Gibson also did not get a hearing or a vote.

During Republican control of the Senate, no nominee from North Carolina to the Fourth Circuit was allowed to be confirmed during the entire Clinton Administration. It is ironic that Republicans now claim that Judge Boyle must be confirmed because the seat is considered a judicial emergency by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, when the North Carolina vacancies on the Fourth Circuit were considered judicial emergencies years ago when Republicans blocked Clinton nominee after Clinton nominee. During the Clinton Administration, Republicans argued that these vacancies did not need to be filled because the Fourth Circuit had the fastest docket time to disposition in the country, a distinction it still holds. After three confirmations for Bush nominees to that court, including Judge Duncan, the Fourth Circuit has fewer vacancies today – three -- than it did when Republicans claimed no more judges were needed (5 vacancies).

Republicans used every argument they could muster to stop Democratic nominees from being confirmed to the Fourth Circuit, particularly in North Carolina, and now they flip flop to claim that Republican nominees must be confirmed.

Go ahead and listen to your Fearless Leaders. Who cares about the actual events?

The testimony of a judge who has been physically threatened and whose family members have been murdered of course holds no credence for you, because you like the inflammatory condemnation of the judiciary. Me, I'm reminded of the inflammatory condemnations of abortion providers and of the murders, maimings and arson that followed. Cause and effect? You bet.