No surprise at all
Sep. 7th, 2010 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumRemember when Bush was in office and the mantra of the Republicans was, "Give the judges a 'straight up or down' vote,"? Being the upright bastions of principle, and, "what is right is right,", we can be sure they are making sure the same thing is happening with the nominees of Obama.
Riggghhhht!
Of course not. As they did to Clinton, they are stonewalling, so much so that the last president to have so low a number of appointments to the bench at this point in his tenure was Nixon.
The delaying tactics have proved so successful, despite the Democrats' substantial Senate majority, that fewer than half of Obama's nominees have been confirmed and 102 out of 854 judgeships are vacant.
Forty-seven of those vacancies have been labeled emergencies by the judiciary because of heavy caseloads.
This, on top of the various complaints they make of how long it takes to get cases through the courts.
This isn't the only place they are doing this either.
The picture is even worse when you factor in executive branch nominees. According to the White House, President Obama presently has 240 unconfirmed nominees. Confirming each of these nominees would require a massive 300 days—10 entire months—of 24 hour work days doing nothing but confirmations.
That's incredible (In part because the implication is that much work should ever have to be done to confirm them. Either there is a faster system, not being used, or there needs to be one). No matter, the simple fact of the matter is the needs of the Republic are being hindered by the Republicans.
Which is pathetic. The Democrats seem to have no idea of how to keep the Republicans from playing Rope-A-Dope; stonewalling things, and then saying, "look, they have the majority, and then can't get anything done." Then, when they go home, they tell the base, "see how we've kept them from running roughshod over you."
In the long run (so long as the system doesn't break), the present Republican Party is doomed. They failed to get the youth vote; they are alienating the Hispanic Vote. They have no hope of catching any serious chunk of the black vote. They need to actually move to the left or they will be, sooner or later, so marginalised they can't keep this shit up.
In the meanwhile, they can sure as hell cause a lot of problems.
Which means (though I have no idea of how it can be done) the elections this November are really important. Someone has to figure out a way to get the average voter out there, or the Teabaggers will be the big winners this November. That my be good for the 2012 election, but they can do a massive amount of damage in the meanwhile.
Riggghhhht!
Of course not. As they did to Clinton, they are stonewalling, so much so that the last president to have so low a number of appointments to the bench at this point in his tenure was Nixon.
The delaying tactics have proved so successful, despite the Democrats' substantial Senate majority, that fewer than half of Obama's nominees have been confirmed and 102 out of 854 judgeships are vacant.
Forty-seven of those vacancies have been labeled emergencies by the judiciary because of heavy caseloads.
This, on top of the various complaints they make of how long it takes to get cases through the courts.
This isn't the only place they are doing this either.
The picture is even worse when you factor in executive branch nominees. According to the White House, President Obama presently has 240 unconfirmed nominees. Confirming each of these nominees would require a massive 300 days—10 entire months—of 24 hour work days doing nothing but confirmations.
That's incredible (In part because the implication is that much work should ever have to be done to confirm them. Either there is a faster system, not being used, or there needs to be one). No matter, the simple fact of the matter is the needs of the Republic are being hindered by the Republicans.
Which is pathetic. The Democrats seem to have no idea of how to keep the Republicans from playing Rope-A-Dope; stonewalling things, and then saying, "look, they have the majority, and then can't get anything done." Then, when they go home, they tell the base, "see how we've kept them from running roughshod over you."
In the long run (so long as the system doesn't break), the present Republican Party is doomed. They failed to get the youth vote; they are alienating the Hispanic Vote. They have no hope of catching any serious chunk of the black vote. They need to actually move to the left or they will be, sooner or later, so marginalised they can't keep this shit up.
In the meanwhile, they can sure as hell cause a lot of problems.
Which means (though I have no idea of how it can be done) the elections this November are really important. Someone has to figure out a way to get the average voter out there, or the Teabaggers will be the big winners this November. That my be good for the 2012 election, but they can do a massive amount of damage in the meanwhile.
