http://jamiedupree.blog.ajc.com/2017/12/...ent-trump/

Senate rules have allowed the Democrats an unprecedented amount of obstructionism on nominees.

Those four Georgians – all of whom had been through confirmation hearings in recent months – were part of a larger group of 100 nominations sent back, as the Senate wrapped up work for the year.
While no one knows for sure who objected to the individual nominations – the Senate does not release that information – the feeling in the halls of the Capitol was clear, that most of these moves were probably made by Democrats, already at odds with President Trump on a number of fronts, especially over nominations.
At issue is a Senate rule XXXI, which plainly states that “Nominations neither confirmed nor rejected during the session at which they are made shall not be acted upon at any succeeding session without being again made to the Senate by the President.”
Normally at the end of the first year (session) of Congress, most of the nominations that have not been acted on are ‘held over’ to the next year – but that did not happen in 2017.
This list of nominees sent back to the White House is so expansive, that it takes almost five full pages to list them in the Senate’s “Executive Calendar” for nominations.
In a review of similar year-end situations in the Senate over the last 25 years, this was by far the largest number of nominees returned to the White House.
At the end of 2003, the Senate sent back 17 nominations made by President George W. Bush.
At the end of 2009, the first year for President Barack Obama, the Senate returned eight nominations.

And if the GOP doesn't mention this obstructionism every chance they get in front of a microphone and camera they are truly the stupid party.

McConnell needs to be retired. He still lives in a different era and is simply not very effective.

(12-24-2017 01:36 PM)bullet Wrote:  McConnell needs to be retired. He still lives in a different era and is simply not very effective.

Truthfully it's not his fault.

The Senate was built for gentlemen to act in an orderly and professional manner thus individual senators have a lot of power to really slow things down. Since senators are now nothing more than state wide elected congressmen, this power is ripe for abuse

Thank goodness this would never happen when it is a Supreme Court nominee.

(12-24-2017 01:50 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  Thank goodness this would never happen when it is a Supreme Court nominee.

Thank you Harry Reid.

(12-24-2017 01:50 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  Thank goodness this would never happen when it is a Supreme Court nominee.

At least they were up front about the strategy to allow the American people to have a say in the process

(12-24-2017 01:59 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 01:50 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  Thank goodness this would never happen when it is a Supreme Court nominee.

At least they were up front about the strategy to allow the American people to have a say in the process

It was dirty pool, but politics is by definition dirty pool. Lets just not pretend that any party has clean hands.

(12-24-2017 03:23 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 01:59 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 01:50 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  Thank goodness this would never happen when it is a Supreme Court nominee.

At least they were up front about the strategy to allow the American people to have a say in the process

It was dirty pool, but politics is by definition dirty pool. Lets just not pretend that any party has clean hands.

Lets not pretend the Democrats aren't doing 10 times what the Republicans did either.

(12-24-2017 03:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 03:23 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 01:59 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 01:50 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  Thank goodness this would never happen when it is a Supreme Court nominee.

At least they were up front about the strategy to allow the American people to have a say in the process

It was dirty pool, but politics is by definition dirty pool. Lets just not pretend that any party has clean hands.

Lets not pretend the Democrats aren't doing 10 times what the Republicans did either.

That is about the most partisan post I can imagine.

Are they? I would like to see evidence that the D’s are obstructing at a rate 10 x’s Of what the R’s did. That claim is straight out of ww.pulledthatoneoutmyass.com

(12-24-2017 04:02 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 03:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 03:23 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 01:59 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 01:50 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  Thank goodness this would never happen when it is a Supreme Court nominee.

At least they were up front about the strategy to allow the American people to have a say in the process

It was dirty pool, but politics is by definition dirty pool. Lets just not pretend that any party has clean hands.

Lets not pretend the Democrats aren't doing 10 times what the Republicans did either.

That is about the most partisan post I can imagine.

Obama had 8 nominees sent back. Trump has over 100. I know Democrats like to pretend facts don't exist, only opinions. But facts do exist.

Republicans also never forced votes on every single procedural item to slow nominees. What the Democrats have done has NEVER been done before anywhere close to this scale. They are trying to disrupt the government using arcane Senate rules and destroy Americans faith in government. In other words, they are being Putin's minions. Putin could never buy the help the Democrats are giving him (or maybe he already has-he sure paid Bill and Hillary).

(12-24-2017 04:04 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Are they? I would like to see evidence that the D’s are obstructing at a rate 10 x’s Of what the R’s did. That claim is straight out of ww.pulledthatoneoutmyass.com

Read the link Mach.

(12-24-2017 04:05 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 04:02 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 03:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 03:23 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(12-24-2017 01:59 PM)solohawks Wrote:  At least they were up front about the strategy to allow the American people to have a say in the process

It was dirty pool, but politics is by definition dirty pool. Lets just not pretend that any party has clean hands.

Lets not pretend the Democrats aren't doing 10 times what the Republicans did either.

That is about the most partisan post I can imagine.

Obama had 8 nominees sent back. Trump has over 100. I know Democrats like to pretend facts don't exist, only opinions. But facts do exist.

Have you seen some of the incompetent nominees they have put forward?

(12-24-2017 04:07 PM)bullet Wrote:  Republicans also never forced votes on every single procedural item to slow nominees. What the Democrats have done has NEVER been done before anywhere close to this scale. They are trying to disrupt the government using arcane Senate rules and destroy Americans faith in government. In other words, they are being Putin's minions. Putin could never buy the help the Democrats are giving him (or maybe he already has-he sure paid Bill and Hillary).

After the stunt the Republicans pulled on Obama's Supreme Court nominee your indignation doesn't seem sincere or justified. What goes around comes around.

Speaks to the extreme nature of Trumps nominees. It’s like he proposes the least qualified candidate to every position. Sad

These yokels will never get it.

They flipped the Supreme Court by obstruction yet have the temerity to complain.

(12-24-2017 04:17 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  These yokels will never get it.

They flipped the Supreme Court by obstruction yet have the temerity to complain.

No, we replaced a constitutionalist justice with another constitutionalist justice. Had the unqualified Garland been seated the court would have been flipped. We maintained the status quo.

When the walking corpse Ginsberg croaks we'll flip the Supreme Court. And I'll enjoy watching you cry and ***** and moan when it happens.

Fascist