This is what I’ve been dreading…
Obama plans to get cracking on nominating some federal judges of the liberal persuasion. And he’s using one of his favorite tactics, forcing the Republicans to play whack-a-mole:
In trying to fill the three vacancies on the 11-member United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit at once, Mr. Obama will be adopting a more aggressive nomination strategy. He will effectively be daring Republicans to find specific ground to filibuster all the nominees…
Often called the second most important court in the country, the Washington court has overturned major parts of the president’s agenda in the last four years, on regulations covering Wall Street, the environment, tobacco, labor unions and workers’ rights.
With the confirmation last week of Sri Srinivasan, Mr. Obama’s first successful nominee to the court, it now has four Democratic appointees and four Republican appointees. But of the six additional “senior” judges, who previously served full time on the court and still regularly hear cases, five were appointed by a Republican president, giving the court a strongly conservative flavor.
“The court is critically important ”” the majority has made decisions that have frustrated the president’s agenda,” said Nan Aron, a liberal activist who has called for Mr. Obama to be more aggressive in nominating judges. “Our view is that balance must be restored on that court, and the empty seats must be filled.”
This is a critically important part of the agenda. It’s one of the many consequences of elections that people tend to put on the back burner when they’re voting, but it’s one that has very long-lasting and transformational effects.
I’m sure McCain will find reasons to bring the nominees up for a vote because he is so principled and the scandals that likely threw the election to Obama are old news.
“Mr. Obama will be adopting a more aggressive nomination strategy. He will effectively be daring Republicans to find specific ground to filibuster all the nominees . . .”
I’d love to stop playing these moronic games. Republicans need no “specific ground”. They can, and should, filibuster on the non-specific ground that they don’t *like* the new prospective judge, because s/he is a pee cee statist. Period.
Unless, that is, Republicans actually have no problem with the prospective judge; or unless, that is, Republicans need some sort of squishy rationale to do what they have every legal right to do. It’s long past time for “this is what we’re going to do; deal with it”. No further explanation or “specific ground” needed or solicited.
I mean, isn’t that the approach you-know-who took when ramming you-know-what down the citizenry’s collective throats? Cojones, guys and gals, cojones.
If the Republicans don’t oppose every single Obama nominee, then what the hell are they good for?
“If the Republicans don’t oppose every single Obama nominee, then what the hell are they good for?”
In the senate the old guard are good for besmirching Cruz, Paul, & Lee and visiting Syria on Memorial Day to promote jihad.
“This is a critically important part of the agenda. It’s one of the many consequences of elections that people tend to put on the back burner when they’re voting, but it’s one that has very long-lasting and transformational effects. “
So true but in a representative democracy the people get the government that the majority elect.
The Far Left has for decades been infiltrating and corrupting upon a multitude of cultural fronts. They now control so much of the public square that barring a paradigm changing, wild-card event its problematic as to whether the Republic can be saved.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity…what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
They are the slouching ones. They wish for a day that they do not realize what will be the beginning of their demise. When it all comes down to dust, they fall down. 3% = 9+ million.