Posted on 02/03/2010 12:17:21 PM PST by HokieMom
President Obama on Wednesday blasted Senate Republicans for using "holds," a tactic that delays considering nominees -- even though as a senator he used the technique to block several of President George W. Bush's appointments.
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As an example, Mr. Obama said his nominee to head the General Services Administration, Martha Johnson, is being held up over issues unrelated to GSA's business of running federal buildings.
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Mr. Obama made use of that power when he was in the Senate. He was one of several senators in 2007 to put a hold on Hans A. von Spakovsky, whom Mr. Bush nominated to serve on the Federal Election Commission.
And, according to news reports, Mr. Obama in late 2005 also put a hold on all Environmental Protection Agency nominees. Mr. Obama said he was trying to force the EPA to move more quickly to issue rules on lead-paint exposure.
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As for the 2007 hold on the FEC nominee, Mr. Obama disagreed with Mr. von Spakovsky's support for allowing states to impose voter-identification requirements at the polls.
Mr. von Spakovsky, who is now senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said the standoff was funny because federal courts had upheld voter-identification laws in both Georgia and Indiana.
The president "is the last person that should be complaining about holds being put on nominees because of the hold he put on me, which he had no reason to put on me other than pure politics," Mr. von Spakovsky said.
Mr. Obama, in his comments Wednesday, acknowledged Democrats also used holds, but said, "I think it's fair to say we were a little more selective in how we did it."
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
What goes around comes around..................
once again obama is a hypocrite
The Audacity of Hypocrisy
And I hope there's plenty more coming his way.
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie .....................................................
We will remember in November, or something like that.
Two prerequisites for being a leftist—utter hypocrisy and absolute shamelessness.
Yes, true. And he has an extra supply of both.
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