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To: Tupelo

“As the Republicrats defiantly told us during the G. W. Bush administration; “Presidents have the right to get their nominees confirmed.”

Those Republicans should be asked, if that is true, then why did the Founding Fathers require a Senate confirmation?


21 posted on 01/30/2015 6:54:09 AM PST by odawg
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To: odawg

“if that is true, “

Short memory eh?
That little argument goes back when it was the Democrats filibustering Bush’s nominees and the GOP floated out the idea of a “Nuclear Option” of getting rid of the filibuster and only require a simple majority for confirmation.
Which, by the way is what the founders had in mind since there is nothing, zero , nada about a filibuster in the Constitution.


31 posted on 01/30/2015 1:36:24 PM PST by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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