Let me get this straight...
When the Democrats ask for more information about a nominee they're supposed to be evaluating for confirmation, that's stalling, but when President Bush refuses to provide requested information, that's not?
Sure, it's possible the request for information is a stalling tactic. But does it really make a whole lot of sense to say in one breath "I won't give them what they want in order to properly review my nominee" and in the next deride them for stalling?
When some part of the Senate asks for more information in the (seemingly ever diminishing) pursuit of it's "advise and consent" role, especially when it relates to a nominee as questionable as Bolton (and one which even a few Republicans such as George Voinovich have expressed reservations on), it doesn't sound all that unreasonable to expect it to be produced.
Liam.
posted by Liam at 6/01/2005 08:53:00 PM
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Its stalling when you ask for information that is not going to be released for security reasons so that Liam and others will think they are reasonable.
Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:03:00 AM
I still don't see why the Republican Party is whining so much. Blocked nominations to all sorts of positions are a way of life for a President. They have been for as long as I can remember. And minority parties have done what they could to stall, block or otherwise scuttle any nominations they really disagreed with during that entire time.
But suddenly there's this new unity in the Republican Party, and they're actually starting to believe their own BS that it's never happened before and completely un-American, when in fact the advise and consent roll of the Congress was set up for EXACTLY that, to keep appointments (whom the citizenry do not actually get to vote on) from getting to extreme in either direction.
Liam.
Thursday, June 02, 2005 8:50:00 AM
Not to this extent. In the past it has been normal to approve Presidential appointments with little fuss.
Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:21:00 AM
That's just more Republican talking points.
Each case is different, but there have always been Presidential appointments which have been blocked, returned or delayed.
Look, we already went through all of the numbers on judicial nominees and the best numbers I could find (and no one has yet provided different ones from a recent, reliable source) indicate that Bush has enjoyed a far higher approval rate of nominees thus far than any of the three previous Presidents.
Also, this President has been nominating candidates much further away from center than some other administrations have. The further you get from center, the more you have to expect resistance.
Bush simply isn't the victim he portrays himself as. He's a President, and one who wants to push a more extreme agenda than some have, all the while complaining about the very things which make him a President instead of a Dictator.
Liam.
Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:17:00 AM
Just not in the current numbers.
Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:56:00 PM
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