Give the Senate Democrats Enough Rope...
...and they'll build themselves a hammock:In a concession to the Senate's new Democratic majority, four of President Bush's appeals court appointees have asked to have their nominations withdrawn, Republican officials said Tuesday.
Several appeals court confirmations were left in limbo when the Senate adjourned for the 2006 elections.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has said only 'consensus nominees' are likely to win confirmation under the new Democratic majority. Senate Republicans will be keen to remember that Democrats mainstreamed "obstruction" as legitimate policy, and keen to return the favor if ever a Democratic president sits in the Oval Office.
Consensus nominees. Pfft.
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Doogman 
3 Comments:
What? Was that a discouraging word??
tch
Bush should have stopped being so loyal to the people, and should have sent up wave after wave of conservative NAMES for these positions, forcing the democrats to label the entire crop of conservative judges as "out of the mainstream", something that would not have worked.
But so long as Bush stuck with the same few names, it was easy for the democrats to deflect criticism.
And I refuse to believe that these 4 people were the only qualified conservatives.
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