[kosciusko51]

Boo fricken hoo. Elections have consequences.

[yetidog]

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.

[353FMG]

Have they started the search for Obola’s missing BC yet?

[PBRCat]

Obama is about to become the lamest second term president since Wilson lost the 1918 midterms.

[Dr. Sivana]

Let’s see . . . What was that phrase Obama used?

Oh yes.

“We won.”

[BookmanTheJanitor]

the author...just sayin' (snicker)

[JimSEA]

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.

[Varsity Flight]

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.

[MUDDOG]

Not just Schadenfreude.

These are great suggestions for what the new Congress could and should do.

[a fool in paradise]

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.

Like Dead Red Ted Kennedy did to Bush's judicial nominees to affect potential cases?

[Jack Hammer]

“...this new alignment is going to be hugely problematic for progressive governance...”

This is The Nation, after all, so for “progressive” read “neo-communist.”

[uglybiker]

Where’s the bad part?