the author...just sayin' (snicker)
Posted on 11/04/2014 8:55:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When Iowa and North Carolina were called almost simultaneously a little before 11:30 pm Tuesday night, the seemingly inevitable became official: Republicans will control the Senate and thus the entire legislative branch.
On a variety of fronts, this new alignment is going to be hugely problematic for progressive governance—perhaps for governance, period. These will be the major flash points. The last one is the most important, because it’s how the GOP will force Obama’s most of the rest.
1. Staffing the Executive Branch For much of the Obama presidency, Republicans in the Senate stymied up literally hundreds of presidential appointments to cabinet slots big and small, as well as nominations to the federal bench. Harry Reid implemented filibuster reform one year ago, and nominations have been handled more quickly—but with Republicans in charge, expect them to grind to a halt. Republicans blocked nominees reflexively under the old filibuster rules, many times without offering a single actual objection, and that’s very likely to resume now.
Republicans well understand that failing to staff the executive branch—and particularly the judicial branch—is a great way to slow down Obama’s priorities now, and even affect the trajectory of American jurisprudence long he leaves office. There are still 59 vacancies on federal district and appellate courts, a seven percent vacancy rate, and 35 percent of those empty seats are in areas that have been declared judicial emergency. This problem will get much worse, not better, over the next two years....
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
Boo fricken hoo. Elections have consequences.
How can someone supposedly informed about American government and politics write an article so ignorant of a process that is consitutionallly and institutionally sanctioned? He appaarently just not like the fact that his party and president will not be able to appoint anyone he wants at any time and under any circumstance.
Have they started the search for Obola’s missing BC yet?
Obama is about to become the lamest second term president since Wilson lost the 1918 midterms.
Let’s see . . . What was that phrase Obama used?
Oh yes.
“We won.”
the author...just sayin' (snicker)
Let the nominees go to vote in the new Senate. I’m fine with that. It will let us know where the new majority stands. Let everything go to vote. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
Every 20 - 40 year old something liberal is an expert online, right? I mean they DID go to college and ran up a $100K bill that they’ll never repay and find some state with a minimum wage of $15 or $20 where they can work, right?
Election for Gridlock, and a victory for current market Extortion-Care lobbyists.
And without Exempting everyone before the next presidential election, a democrat will be the next president.
These are great suggestions for what the new Congress could and should do.
Like Dead Red Ted Kennedy did to Bush's judicial nominees to affect potential cases?
What time does he have to get up for his paper route this morning?
“...this new alignment is going to be hugely problematic for progressive governance...”
This is The Nation, after all, so for “progressive” read “neo-communist.”
Where’s the bad part?
Dead Red Ted. I like that.
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