[Darkwolf377]

A senior Senate Republican leadership aide said: "We cleared something like 35 nominees before the last recess, too. That’s what happens before a recess. This isn’t because anyone blinked." According to an administration account, the president told McConnell that he was holding up an extraordinary number of appointments. McConnell replied that the Democrats did the same thing when President George W. Bush was in office. Obama disagreed, saying that when Bush made his first recess appointments, a handful of nominees had been waiting for more than a month. Obama had more than 60 waiting.

What a nothing story, designed to invent a "win" for Obama.

That his media pals are THIS desperate says more than the article and the deceptive headline.

[DJ MacWoW]

Yup. Politico spin at it’s best.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well I think the GOP has blunk, unless there is a quid pro quo we don’t know.

[chilltherats]

The witless pubs ahouls have seen the headline coming. The rats did indeed hold up a ton of Bush appointees. They went so far as to keep congress in session by having one or two senators show up, convene, speak for a couple minutes, then recess for the day. They did this to avoid letting Bush appoint Miguel Estrada and a couple others he wanted to put in important judgeships.

If zero was going to make the appointments during recess, fine, let him do it. Why give him the headline? All it does is piss off the base and undermine support for the pubs, as easily evidenced by many, many posts on this thread.

The real failure on the part of the pubs is that right when the voters are especially anxious to see some conservative spine, they display their yellow bellies instead.

Dumb shitz.