Unprecedented Obstructionism

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Satchel

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It's fascinating just how faithful the GOP has been has been to its commitment to fight the President made on the night of his inauguration:

The astonishing degree of long-term obstruction is exemplified by the fact that on May, 7, 2012, the Senate finally finished dealing with the nominees left pending on the Senate floor at the end of last year.

The Senate has yet to confirm a single nominee submitted by the president in 2012. During President Obama’s first term, current vacancies on the federal bench have risen by 43%.

This trend stands in stark contrast to President Clinton and President Bush’s first three years, when vacancies declined by 57% and 60%, respectively.

Nearly one out of ten federal judgeships remains vacant. Judicial vacancies are nearly double what they were at this point in President George W. Bush’s first term.
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Unprecedented obstructionism documented:



Republican extremism has blocked compromise, crippled Congress
By Juan Williams - 05/07/12

We now have history’s first draft of the story of this Congress. There is so much political fog right now that it is hard to get a clear view of the reason for the dysfunction on Capitol Hill.

But three new books take a step back to get a clear look at the fray, and all three conclude that no-holds-barred, right-wing politics is to be blamed.
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The truth hurts, well I guess you have to have read the facts which we know who doesn't read the facts. How sad,
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My debating skills are not at issue here. I post factual articles in the hope of eliciting salient, probative commentary from the Tier ones and I get majorapplewhite.
 
Satchel, I understand that you have your daily talking points to post about Republican obstructionism or whatever your theme of the day might be, but the fact that Harry Reid is the Senate Majority Leader is not really debatable. Reid controls the agenda of the Senate and he is the primary reason (in addition to Barry) that we have no national budget and that Presidential appointments are not put up for vote.
 
Here's what you meant to write; Given that a party must have 60 votes there to pass any bill, and given that neither party has any mechanism to force individual senators to vote a given way, the Dems' control of the Senate was never unobstructed.
 
How many budget proposals has the D Senate obstructed?

How many jobs bills?

How long has it been since the D Senate passed a budget?

Obstructionist my ***.....
 
Satch
you posted
"Given that a party must have 60 votes there to pass any bill, "

it does NOT take 60 votes in the Senate to pass any bill.

You posting something and saying it is a 'fact' doesn't make it a fact.
 
MrD

yes on to force cloture and a vote it does take 60
but on ordinary bills it only takes a majority of those actually voting

so Sat post that it takes 60 votes to pass " any bill' is not correct.
 
MrD

when you use the term generally Are you saying 'most " bills only get to a vote in the Senate only after a 60 vote to end cloture?
An " ordinary " bill is one where a cloture end debate vote was not needed.

I have not tracked how the Senate did this past year so perhaps you are right that most bills did require a cloture vote to end debate before voting.

do you have some stats?
 
I thought nominees were more often women or not Caucasian because they are harder to reject. Perhaps, I was wrong and that only applies to Supreme Court nominees. What are the percentage of non-Caucasian nominees to Caucasian nominees and how does that compare to the general population, Satchel?
 
Perhaps, but that isn't what I asked. I asked how the percentage of black nominees compares to the percentage of blacks in law school and the percentage of blacks in the general public in the US.
 
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