"It is highly unlikely any of these district judges are not going to be confirmed," McConnell said. "We've done seven this year. District judges are almost never defeated. This is just a very transparent attempt to try to slam dunk the minority and make them look like they're obstructing things they aren't obstructing."

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck." James Whitcomb Riley

Obstructionism is thy name.

These nominations have been on “hold” 4 times longer, on average, than any of the nominations from Bush (1 month v 4+ months).

How is it that Harry's actions are any better?

He is obviously blocking something that would be a WIN for the American people and as such a WIN for the Republicans...

He spins it as if the Republicans are at fault, but HE is the true obstructionist!

So, it seems Senator Reid is asking for a compromise...but that's a dirty word for Republicans, isn't it?

This may be way outside the box, but I'm beginning to feel that judges, all judges, should be voted into office the same way and for the same length of time that our presidents are elected and hold office.

Judges have been appointed by conservatives and liberals throughout our history. More times than not I have felt that those judges will rule a certain way based more on their personal beliefs than the actual constitutionality of the issues at hand. This cripples the very fiber of our constitution and in return the fabric of our country.

If judges, including supreme court judges held term limits of four years and no more than two terms, we might come out ahead in the long run.

At the time being, the house should accept the senate offer and move forward. It may not be a perfect compromise, but at least it's a compromise and we could sure use more of that in politics.

"It is highly unlikely any of these district judges are not going to be confirmed," McConnell said. "We've done seven this year. District judges are almost never defeated."

So why not give them an up-or-down vote and be done with it?

Why are the Republicans holding up these judges' nominations in the first place?

If 7 Judges were already appointed this year... then appointing them should be no problem... but for some reason... the GOP freshman are Filibustering APPOINTMENTS! See, this is why Freshman congressmen and senators are the problem, they're too radical. The veterans of congress actually know what they're doing, and for the most part can come to some agreement... but when freshmen get in the mix, it forces everybody waaay to the right, and waaay to the left. So yes, Sickofthebickering... they should get back to work... these appointments will take under an hour if they can just put them to a vote, and get on with it. Then they can pass the damn jobs bill and get back to work.

Damn I wish Feisty was here... you specifically mentioned her too... she'd give you a piece of her mind.

This is one fight the Republicans won't win. McConnell has already said the judges will likely be confirmed. Of course, by requiring cloture votes, no one can leave and go home to run for re-election. Just because one Senator is miffed that President Obama made recess appointments. Well, guess what, EVERY President makes recess appointments. Get over it and get back to the work of the People of the United States.

First of all the two issues should not be tied together and Harry is wrong to do so, but if the judges are going to be approved as the minority leader states, then what is the hold up? This is what causes gridlock. You would not have the well, if you want this then address this first issue, if both sides did their jobs.

A Musical Impulse

Damn I wish Feisty was here... you specifically mentioned her too... she'd give you a piece of her mind.

I hope not too big a piece... she doesn't have much to spare!

(btw... I did not mention her... are you somehow associating fisty with Feisty?... shame on you!)

(show me the clown nose, fisty!)

STexan: Give it a rest already. Both parties are being as$holes at this point and if you cannot see that then you might as well point the finger at yourself too. As far as the easy way out with the Liberal and Conservative bullsh!t, grow up. Life does not boils down to two fricking words. I invoke the Liberal card, so all debate must cease or I invoke the Conservative card, so all debate must cease. I am so tired of the stupidity.

The actions of Harry Reid right now are no doubt in response to the kind of thing the Republicans have been doing since President Obama took office. The GOP House really, really, really wants to have the jobs bill passed into law so they can go into their primary fights saying "see, we promised to help get jobs, and we did pass a jobs bill."

Remember the votes to extend unemployment benefits, extend the Bush tax cuts, raise the debt ceiling, confirm judges, confirm other appointees and 143 other filibustered items ? What would happen if Harry Reid decided that no further business would be conducted until each and every one of those things were actually put onto the floor for a yes/no vote ? AND, what if the Senate stayed in session and had votes every day so that the only thing being seen on C-span is Republicans voting NO, NO, NO over and over and over and over ?

Karma is a brutal lady, and when she decides to give you back what you have dished out, she does it with compound interest.

Yes...the Republicans did "such and such" and it was wrong and yes, the Democrats did "such and such" and it was wrong. I'm tired of figuring out who was right and who was wrong and I'm tired of the obnoxious polarization. Just get the goddamned job done so we can get on with things. I understand politics is their little game but can we get on with it without picking one another to death? If both sides continue in this manner we'll all be picked clean by November.

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) offered to allow a swift vote on the JOBS Act, a Republican-led jobs bill that passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support, in exchange for Republicans dropping their objections to confirming some of President Obama's judicial nominees."

I'm probably the hardest core Independent-Democrat-leaning poster on this thread, but somebody said Harry Reid was going to do SOMETHING to mess up the Jobs Bill, and dog gone it, if they weren't at least 1/2 right.

If just this ONE TIME we can focus on JOBS JOBS JOBS and nothing else, this could actually get done. Harry Reid, please just shut your mouth and sign the darn Jobs Bill, the Judges already have jobs. Scheesh!

Obama / Biden 2012

SOB - Feisty could wipe the floor with you, sorry. You're no match. And, your arguments are juvenile, at best. The GOP has proved to be obstructionists at every turn. Nothing new here!

TO: Rob in ma-3189632 who wrote:

"First the keystone BLUNDER now this."

I wouldn't call this a "blunder" nor would I call Keystone a "blunder". Obviously, Dems and Republicans barter all the time, it's just Republicans are in trouble with obstructionism and to further mislead the people, one of them went out in the hallway and told Faux Noise that Reid was trying to made a deal and the whole thing went viral.

On Keystone, you must have missed the news this morning when they showed another pipeline that exploded and burned somebody's house down to the ground.

Fine. Just sign the Bill. We've been waiting 3-1/2 years for this.

Obama / Biden 2012

The Senate should vote up or down on this jobs bill, then they'll have plenty of time for the judges. The sooner the jobs bill is resolved the better. Why don't all the Senators interested in jobs arrange for Harry a long lunch and in his absence vote the jobs bill?

Republicans, in turn, accused Reid of holding their jobs bill hostage until they relent on the would-be judges.

My, my; how the tables have turned. It would seem that Republicans CAN teach an old Democrat new tricks. Not that 2 wrongs suddenly make a right...that hasn't changed. I agree with the frustration of the Dems; McConnell should coral his boy from Utah and take him out behind the woodshed, if necessary, to teach him some manners. And, Harry, don't be a douche-bag. Have a vote on the jobs, then act like a Republican; at least be a little better than they are.

On Keystone, you must have missed the news this morning when they showed another pipeline that exploded and burned somebody's house down to the ground

That will certainly have Obama's base in a twist when he reverses course in May or June on keystone.

You do know that he will cave on it, right?

Two wrongs don't make a right. Reid needs to put the jobs bill up for a vote, then start worrying about the judges.

STexan

Liberal's definition of "Compromise" - the act of moving from a politically right position to a politically left position.

Liberal's definition of "Bipartisan" - several Republicans crossing lines to join 100% of Democrat position

Republican definition of "Compromise - an oxymoron, not an actual word. Must never happen, better to destroy the entire Nation.
Republican definition of "Bipartisan" - When any two Republicans agree on an issue, especially of one is a conservative Republican and the other is a TPublican.

Lies and obstructionism is all the Republicans know anymore... well, except for their war on contraception and women's health. Honestly, Republicans have to stop holding up the government and get these judges appointed once and for all - it has been years they have been playing this ridiculous game with our courts.

Raab, I handed your ass to you on a silver platter the other day regarding your "opinion" on Keystone XL...either you're an idiot who constantly sticks his hands in the fan blades and wonders why his fingers hurt, or you need to be schooled on the subject again...

Your choice, junior...what's it going to be?

What the Republican dimwits won't tell you is that Reid wants the judge appointments to move to a floor vote. The Republican dimwits have used Senate procedures to block an up or down vote on the judge appointments. Reid is NOT attempting to 'force' Republicans to appoint these judges - he is attempting to force the Republicans to actually do their job.

In the absence of compromise - any Senate action has become a process of using leverage to force Senators to do the work they were elected to do. Apparently getting a Republican to actually do their job requires a 2x4 ...

Rob in ma-3189632

First the keystone BLUNDER now this.

Great job Harry! You may as well send Romney his January plane ticket to DC, right now.

hahahaha - Romney in the White House - maybe as a tourist.

By the way, look this up (from 9/28/2010) - link provided:

Measure Number:
S. 3816 (Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act )

Measure Title:
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create American jobs and to prevent the offshoring of such jobs overseas.

your fellow Republicans did not even have the balls to vote on this bill so shut the hell up. Not one of them voted to close loopholes that reward companies for sending jobs over sees so before you open your mouth, make sure that your peeps are FOR JOBS IN THE USA!

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00242

So at the ninth-hour the republicans want to pass a jobs bill so they can go home and campaign on it? - do they think everyone will forget their 2010 campaign promising jobs? They are the party of 'NO' and suddenly wanting to pass something is not going to pull their sorry arses out of the effluent.

The Teapublican bill is a "Jobs Lite" political gimmick that's a day late and a dollar short. So though it is better than nothing, it can wait. Reid is just more experienced and smarter. Get over it GOP/TP and appoint the judges already.

The Keystone pipeline project was pulled by the company that wants to build it, until they decide on a different route, which they have agreed to do. Why do Republicans not see that it is insane to approve the project before you even know where it will go.

Democrats need to remember the games played by rightwingnuts, their obstructionsim and their disdain for anything good that happens to our country.

Democrats - remember to vote and kick these Republican traitors out of office.

lets not vote on the jobs bill so we can get more judges in there that will give more power to the governemtn and less power to the constitution .. sounds like a solid plan.

"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday morning on the Senate floor: "I think most Senators would rather be working on things that the American people believe would actually help create jobs than' seems the republican ideas for creasting jobs is what they tried before when Bush was in office,,cut taxes on the wealthy and big business....and what did that get us other than a ton of manufacturing jobs leaving this country with tax breaks...The republican president . Bush, did not pay for the war he started..left a huge debt for the citizens of this country..so far, the republicans are not paying for that debt in any form...they are however looking to increase that debt with more tax cuts..unless of course they can take away every so called entitlement that has been on the books for years. Of course...one thing that they would never cut is their own pay or insurance cost that we tax payers have to cover.

The only thing preventing the Senate from moving quickly to tackle these items," Reid said in reference to the JOBS Act and a series of other legislative priorities, "is what we've had this whole Congress: obstructionism by my friends, the Republicans."

The TRUTH SQUAD says: Mr. Reid, you have completely LOST your mind. You, and you alone, are the OBSTRUCTIONIST. And you are doing it just to get Mr. Obama's judicial nominees slipped through without venting.

Mr. Reid, YOU ARE THE JOKE on the Congressional Hallways. Everything you have done in the past three years is against Main Street America. Maybe it is time you terminated yourself as a CAREER POLITICAN and retire to your Gold mining in Nevada.

I heard of the kind of judges the Republican Tea Party prefers in the courtrooms of America: If you're a minority, working class or poor, a centrist, a liberal, or a humanist, a scientist, or if you're not an active member of a Christian church ...the verdict is, that YOU'RE AUTOMATICALLY GUILTY OF SOMETHING. THE ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM SENTENCE WILL BE RULED AGAINST YOU, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR PROPERTY AND YOUR BUSINESS.

That's why the GOP's stalling on getting any of the President's bipartisan picks appointed behind the federal bench. The religious right only wants their prejudicial, "True Believers" holding all the legal reins of power, everywhere.

Your choice, junior...what's it going to be?

Did you tough talk someone over the Internet?

Is virtual chest thumping the thing these days?

Kudos if this type of activity is what you need to feel good about yourself. Keep doing what makes you feel complete.

The Senate has a duty under the Constitution to scrutinize Judicial Appointees. Reid doesn't give a S**T about the Constitution or the adherence to it by the Senate. He would rather hold a Jobs Bill, overwhelmingly considered highly beneficial to the American people, with highly popular support, hostage, so he can force through potentially unqualified candidates for the Federal Bench. The man has no sense of priority and obviously cares nothing about the American people. All he wants to do is play little Hitler, or he'll take his ball and go home. He should be kicked out.

The Senate should vote up or down on this jobs bill, then they'll have plenty of time for the judges.

So then the jobs bill passes and the Tea Party still blocks a vote on the appointment of judges.

Great compromise!

The word compromise is not in the GOP's vocabulary.

Sailcat: The GOP is not refusing to compromise -- they are refusing to be extorted. Obama and Reid's conduct here is reprehensible.

Really? How do you want to spin all of the much-needed judges that are awaiting appointment to desperate districts but are being unnecessarily held up by Republicans for months? Or is that somehow fine with you?

Typical hypocritical teabagger. No wonder they aren't taken seriously.

Sailcat: We don't need incompetent judges, and they are in for life. The country needs a jobs program. If you don't believe in the Constitution go to Venezuela and take Obama and Reid with you. Love it or leave it. One-half a day will give us a much needed jobs programs, it's an up or down vote which will surely pass. BTW: I'm not a teabagger. Are you a member of the Hitler Youth.

The nominated judges are competent and there have been no objections to the appointments by the GOP. They are merely stalling the appointments for political reasons. Read up on the subject before you weigh in with your uninformed opinions, okay?

Here is an excellent example of a senseless delay in appointing a very qualified applicant to a district that is in desperate need of judge:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/13/10669816-senate-vote-on-jobs-bill-hung-up-on-judicial-fight?commentId=63317082#c63317082

Wrong link, sorry. Here is the correct link:

http://blog.pfaw.org/content/another-empty-courtroom

Sailcat: I didn't know that the Constitution granted you the power to approve judicial nominees --- Sorry! Oh, you say the nominees are excellent --- wow --- I think Charlie Sheen would be an excellent President --- so, I guess I can appoint him, the Constitution and the rest of this country be damned. Grow up, get a life and if you don't like Democracy go to Venezuela.

BTW: I have nothing to do with the Tea Party !!! Are you a member of the "Hitler Youth"?

Gil, you are dodging the point. The GOP is deliberately stalling the appointments of much-needed judges for their own political purposes. It is not even disputed. Therefore, they are playing an obstructionist game with the judicial system. I provided you with an excellent example and you are conveniently ignoring the facts. Is willful ignorance preferable to you to a government that serves the people?

By the way, I am not surprised you would approve of Charlie Sheen as president because of your poor character. It makes sense that you identify with a drug addict and reprobate.

Shame.

SAILCAT: How is denying jobs to the American people beneficial? All that is needed is a half a day in the Senate and the American people would receive the best employment benefits that a bipartisan Congress has created. If Obama and Reid spent one half day on the floor of the Senate they could then get the jobs bill passed with out opposition and then move on to the appointments. Threatening, a delay of months and months, by conditioning putting the Jobs Bill to a vote (as in: we will hurt that American People unless you first approve our judges) is unconscionable, unethical and defies Constitutional intent. I'll bet you 50 to 1 that you have never read the Constitution and 10,000 to 1 that you have never read the Declaration of Independence. My comment about appointing Bill Ayers was satirical. (One who doesn't get that is truly an air head or a liberal antagonist) You didn't answer my question -- "Are you a member of the Hitler Youth".

You're still dodging, Gil. The GOP is obstructing all reasonable efforts to assist the government to operate for the benefit of the people, and all you want to do is ask irrelevant questions about your childhood youth groups. Show me your friends, Gil...Charley Sheen, the Hitler Youth, and the obstructionist GOP...and I will show you who you are.

Not a pretty picture, is it, Gil?

SAILCAT: You cannot read. You do not understand sarcasm. You know nothing of the Constitution, You are obviously uneducated in economics. You, like Reid and Obama, could give a s**t about the American people getting jobs. "You will continue to starve and your homes, which will soon be foreclosed upon, unless you agree to the appointment of this person, a radical liberal, maybe Rev. Wright (sarcasm) to the Federal Bench for life.

I'm not dodging s**t. I known well what I am talking about. What are your credentials? Did you pass third grade in the Hitler Youth. BTW: you never relied to if you ever read the Constitution or the Declaration.

Gil, since the subject of economics wasn't raised in the discussion and it is a fact that the judges have to be appointed by the Senate, your ravings about what I know vs. what you know are childish. In fact, your entire side of the conversation has been a collection of immature and petulant whinings and dodgings.

You are a waste of time.

how many people are out of work because Harry reid is sitting on all the Jobs bills

Da Noid, I believe the number of vacant judicial posts is currently 19.

Republicans are holding up Obama nominated judges in hopes Santorum wins the presidency and nominates Taliban judges instead.

We should just outsource our government to some other country.

And what about the people whose suits can't go forward or the people charged with federal crimes who can't be prosecuted while the Republicans hold up qualified appointments to play politics? Not to mention the people who have been selected, whose lives are on hold. Shameful.

Actually, by my count, the current number of nominatations awaiting confirmation is 41...

9 nominees to the Court of Appeals

32 nominees to the District Courts

This includes Mary Geiger Lewis who was nominated for the District Court of South Carolina on March 16, 2011...she's been awaiting an "up-or-down" vote for almost a year!

I can understand bashing Republican positions on specific issues, but it sounds like everyone agrees with the jobs bill. Just pass it and move on to other issues (like judicial nominees).

I complain about our politicians acting like 5 year olds, but the truth is, so do most of the posters on these boards.

You do realize there are innocent people waiting to have their day in court but instead rot in a jail because the nasty Republicans refuse to appoint judges to hold trials. Sitting in jail when you are innocent is worse than not having a job... appoint the judges and then pass the bill. This is the only way to give Republicans a reason to actually do their jobs.

There are districts that are in desperately in need of judges that are deliberately being stonewalled by the obstructionist GOP. It is a game to them, but to many people it is serious business.

The republicans want to wait to appoint judges so they can get conservative judges that will rule with the right on the voter ID laws, the war on women laws, etc.

The Senate will not be "appointing" any judges, they will be voting(someday!), to confirm the appointments made by the President.

Ellis Baumgarner....."Republicans are holding up Obama nominated judges in hopes Santorum wins the presidency and nominates Taliban judges instead."

If the moderator lets you get away with this kind of rhetoric without banning you for a month, then other posters may do the same such as:

This administration, it's Czars, Liberal~Progressive cabinet members, and oppressive Senate Democrats are nothing more than communists, Marxists, and radicals who are bent on destroying this great country.

I, did not VOLUNTEER at age 17 (US Navy) only to have the Nation, I, (and others) Love,

just to turn it over now (Senior Citizen) to the Regressives... The Regressives (formerly ghosting as

Conservatives) want to take our Nation back a Century, or more... The Tea Party is a perfect scapegoat for

the Regressives in Conservative clothing...

I, an a proud UNION Member... WE the PEOPLE formed a 50 State Union... Gov Perry, the (Sarah) Palins

and others want to secede from our UNION... The call of State Rights is the old slavers call to undermine

and weaken the Authority of the Union... Women should be seen, screwed and left barefoot, but NOT heard

from... The Regressive FEAR a woman of POWER... The Regressives work for Corporate bosses... They seek

to put WE the PEOPLE into a "I, sold my soul to the Company Store" mode...

But enough... A Proud Patriot... LarBear... WE the PEOPLE are THE GOVERNMENT, not Democrats, or

Republicans (Regressives)

LarBear....nice joke!

Show me the Brown Nose SOB!

I am merely stating an obvious fact, SOB.

Boy, I was reading some posts on here and 'Sickof the Bickering" is really a moron.. you can usually tell a true GOP moron by thier inability to argue or reaason any coherant thoughts.. usually just a rambling of epithets and names .. 'Socialist ! , Muslim ! Communist ! Liberal! all is a guise to sound like, i don't know, a bumber sticker ?!:!?!?? thats all the GOP has been reduced to .. a verbal cascade of pre-written bumber stickers like we've heard for so many years .. . .'cut and run // slow bleed // sanctity of marriage// don't burn my flag // and on and on ad nausium ... what a bunch of useless , ignorant chumps ...

Hi Forrest,

I heard you got rid of a lemon, good news. I hope all is well with you and your wife.

It seems SOB is losing all bladder control because his favorite right wing Republicans are being held up to the light again for being obstructionists. The GOP has been unnecessarily slowing down the approval of judicial nominees and now SOB is whining because they are being called on it. Not very mature of him, is it?

Just one example of a judicial appointment being obstructed by Republicans in the Senate:

http://blog.pfaw.org/content/another-empty-courtroom

Hi Thetotas, yes they removed quite a large cancerous tumor, I have completed six weeks of treatment, and so far so good, I get checked again in a couple of weeks to see if they want to give me some further treatments. I think my wife is worse from the wear than I am, but we are doing OK, thank you for asking, I hope all is well with you.

"BTW Forrest... way to contribute something meaningful! (what a joke you are!)"

Ha you think ending every one of your posts with (show me the clown nose, fisty!) is contributing something meaningful. If you do then here is something just as meaningful, and certainly worthy of the level of discussion you provide.

Show us the Brown Nose SOB!

If you don't believe it is meaningful then just what is the difference between when you post it, and when I do?

So glad to see you are doing better, Forrest. I hope things continue to improve for you and your wife. Best of luck and please know my thoughts have been with you.

Forrest,

Yea, I can see you're feeling better, always full of piss and vinegar. ;)

Thank You Sailcat, I think I will be OK, the doctors are amazed because of the size and the duration that the tumor had to be growing, but for some reason it seems if it stayed contained and did not spread throughout my system. I caught a lucky break, and greatly appreciate all the kind thoughts and prayers I received from so many people. Ha or maybe I am just too toxic for cancer!

Orneriness can be a good thing, sometimes, Forrest! Hang in there!

Well just a little friendly albeit unsolicited advice SOB, if you think you have something intelligent and insightful to say don't discredit yourself at the end of your post with a personal insult towards someone who has not even commented on the thread.

Good news indeed Forrest! Please keep us up on how you are doing.

All the best, Grump. Too toxic for cancer!!

SOB cannot face Feisty on equal terms so he must attack her behind her back. Doesn't say much for SOB, does it?

SOB cannot face Feisty on equal terms so he must attack her behind her back.

Sure does Sailcat!

Another right wing coward who hides behind someone elses skirt, while lobbing juvenile taunts from the cheap seats!

Poor SOB - your pleas for attention aren't too transparent! lmao@U junior!

Back on ignore when you belong!

Well said, Feisty. SOB is indeed a coward. He spreads lies and childish insults instead of informed and cogent arguments. He is a troll, and not a very entertaining one, at that.

Ignore it is, then.

SOB - your own words, #3.9:

"Thanks for clearing that up, Daryl... you have made it clear that you are just another left-wing loon...

HOW? By abandoning any attempt to actually discuss an issue once your opponent makes a valid point that you cannot refute... then launching a personal attack on him."

Since that is *your own* modus operandi, anything else you have to say is meaningless. But I'm sure that won't stop you from trying to suck all the air out of the thread.

repubs should stop EVERYTHING the dems try to do because all they want to do is RUIN THE USA!!! get dems OUTTTTT

derekv

QUOTE: "repubs should stop EVERYTHING the dems try to do because all they want to do is RUIN THE USA!!!"

Answer.... Learn how to SPELL... SEE??? Notice the difference??? the dems try to do because all they want

to do is RUN THE USA!!!" SEE "RUN the USA" like WE the PEOPLE hired (Voted) them to do... Just like

WE the PEOPLE voted President Obama to do... Blocking, undermining, President Obama is NOT what

Conservatives were hired for...

Ramboet...

You are correct... there is WAY too much finger-pointing. But to be fair, as it stated in the article, 7 judges have already been confirmed this year. Seems to me its time to focus on the things that can help put people back to work... but Harry can't have that if it means that the Republicans get a win out of it...

As I said above... he is a disgusting creature!

(show me the clown nose, fisty!)

SOB and it is a much lower number than those confirmed by Bush. But, the GOP obstructionists have no desire to do anything but make a mess.

The disgusting creature is McConnell. And, yes, he is totally disgusting!

Obama/Biden 2012

Here is just one example of a court that is in desperate need of a judge and the Republicans are unnecessarily holding up the appointment of a qualified applicant. This obstructionist behavior by the GOP deserves to be exposed.

http://blog.pfaw.org/content/another-empty-courtroom

Jay...

I agree... the Republicans DO need to do their job... but i find it curious that Harry has not been pushing this issue with the judges until now... Harry has not been calling for a vote on these judges every single day now has he?

Don't you find that a bit conspicuous? Let me guess... it is merely coincidental, right?

(show me the clown nose, fisty!)

It's odd Harry hasn't made an issue of this earlier. The GOP is unnecessarily holding up judicial appointments for selfish political reasons and thereby depriving judges to districts that need them desperately. SOB is making weak excuses for the obstructionists.

http://blog.pfaw.org/content/another-empty-courtroom

Whatever... Sailcat... you are obviously so blinded by devotion to the 'water-walker-in-the-white-house' that you will NEVER understand what is really happening.

I feel for you!

(show me the clown nose, fisty!)

Actually, SOB, I have facts to support the obstruction of judicial appointments by the Senate Republicans while you have only sub-adolescent insults to support your completely untenable position.

You failed again, SOB.

Really daryl?

You judge me that way... and I have said NOTHING to any of you that is HATEFUL!

All I did was criticize Harry's motives and tactics. You people sure do have a funny way of looking at what is written here!

Seems to me that YOU all have been the one's to demonstrate hate and anger with any/all of my posts simply because i have a different opinion than you. (think about it.)

(show me the clown nose, fisty!)

SOB - <3

everyone else wants to government to run everything in our lives and give everything to everyone... UR ALL LAZY!

libs r so funny.. i love reading this stuff. haha you are all so full of ship i cant stop laughing

You are right, Jay.

What Harry is doing is nothing short of EXTORTION!

(show me the clown nose, fisty!)

SOB - you clearly aren't paying attention. The GOP has been playing the extortion game ever since Obama won. To hell with the US - just as long as the GOP blocks every move he wants to make. Pathetic group of losers the GOP has become.

Blah blah blah!

Same old song and dance!

Hahahahah!

SOB and bullet...sounds like both of you just can't handle the truth..

Careful there bmac...

talk like that will get this angry loons to attack you personally... they will call you all kinds of name!

(funny thing is that they actually believe that when they call you a name it hurts you...)

HAHAHAAHAH!

SOB...been reading your posts...

Are you 9? Or younger?

The dems have only had control of the Senate since 2007. Prior to that the reps held control from 2003 to 2007. Both have had the opportunity to screw things up and have excelled at it most of the time. Obstructionism is a lot like Judicial Activism. It all depends on what side of the argument you stand.

If you vote incumbent, you are part of the problem.

So, what do you think the Republicans "ought to be ashamed of"? Seems Harry is trying to get something done...where the Republican obstructionists have been spending their time trying to stop anything from being done... trying to get the White House back since Bush lost if for them... Go Harry... Just like the President, if they won't work with you... Go around them for the American people... OBAMA 2012...

Recovering Democrat - you were NEVER a Democrat. The GOP has become such a sorry lot they are an embarrassment and a threat to this country. I am hoping for a Democratic majority in both the House and Senate in 2012, plus Obama winning another term. Then we can begin to see progress. Vote the damned obstructionists out!!!

Obama/Biden 2012

Actually Recovering Democrat... sounds like you never recovered... it is ABSOLUTELY no Surprise to anyone with a cerabellum that the republicans have stopped nearly all legislation in its tracks.. and spent the first year and half of their house control pushing abortion bill after abortion bill .. no jobs bills... when they were running.. ALLLLLLLLLLLLL you ever heard form John Boeners and Mithc McConnels mouth was '' Where are the jobs.. where are the Jobs.."" now that they have the house NO JOBS BILLS !! all Abortiona dn Birth Control .. just what duplicitous bunch of America Hating Scumbags would do ... begin to control everyones personal life ... you couldn't PAY ME ENOUGH MONEY to call myself as something as traitorous and slimey as a Republican ...

This agenda of holding up judges was going on long before President Obama made this recent recess appointment. Since President Obama took office judges have been desperately needed around the country, but the GOP will not allow them to come up for a vote. That is obstruction, complete and total obstruction that has been the only strategy of the sorry GOP since the president took office. When one party really has no good intentions at all for the American people what good are they? They have had their chance since taking the House and all it has been is an agenda against women, no funds for planned parenthood, cut funding to WIC, axe aid for Head Start. What have they done that is good? What have they done that is helpful to the average American worker? Nothing and nothing.

John, Indiana

Hey... 20 million Limbaugh listeners bought HIS total LIE about Sandra Fluke... Read her actual Transcript

and Ol' Lumpjaw alias Rush Limbaugh... LIED... Made up everything about Sandr's sex Life and paying for

her Contraception... BOLDLY, BLATENTLY, LIED... Rush owes an apology for HIS LIE to Sandra, women

and HIS listener.... They don't FACT CHECK, like Google and read her Testimony... JUST Believe the LIE!

Ahem HELLO????? Nov is not going to be good for dems ...........where have you been or can you not see the trends in the polls.

frankbrown - you clearly are making up your OWN polls. The GOP is losing standing with every day that passes. President Obama is gaining ground and, with the buffoons the GOP is running, should win handily in November. Congressional approval has only been lower once - I see a turnout of the GOP obstructionists and Dems taking over the House and keeping the Senate.

Women do not like being told we are not able to have a seat at the table when you are discussing our rights. In fact, why were men even part of the discussion?? Watch for a HUGE backlash against the Republicans who lost their minds on that one.

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Both parties have done it but this COngress has taken it to unprecedented lengths.

Polls go up, polls go down. What has been consistent is the implosion of the GOP.