Senators edge away from showdown over Obama nominees

foxnews.com ^ | 7/16/13 | ap/foxnews

[ColdOne]

Senate leaders slowly stepped away from a major showdown over presidential nominees on Tuesday, as Republicans dropped their opposition to a key appointee and Democrats offered a significant concession in return -- the withdrawal of two controversial labor board picks.

By Tuesday afternoon, lawmakers were describing the arrangement as a tentative "deal" that could avert an ugly stand-off. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid earlier had demanded that Republicans advance and approve at least seven nominees or face a controversial rule change that could drain their power. But Reid confirmed late Tuesday that things were cooling down.

"We have a new start for this body, and I feel very comfortable with it," Reid said.

On the Republican end, several members of the GOP joined Democrats to advance, in a 71-29 vote, the nomination of Richard Cordray, Obama's pick for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He was later approved in a 66-34 vote.

[BlackElk]

Notice that the GOP "leaders" and many GOP senators are willing to give Obozo JUDGES (infinite evil) and therefore sell out the babies, sell out gun owners, sell out marriage standards, sell out on every social issue (unpopular at the polo club, don'tcha know?) in order to get rid of two already destroyed nominees to the National Labor Relations Board in order to make private sector plutocrats "feel good" and feel protected from the constantly disappearing private sector labor unions. One more instance of Muffy's Trust Fund Uber Alles.

Well, let Muffy re-elect them to the Senate since she is all they care about. It is high time for Sarah Palin (a real GOP woman) and her Freedom Party. Let's roll and send the utterly unprincipled greedbag/gasbag Thurston Howells of the US Senate to the dustbin of embarrassing history where they belong or let us yawn indifferently if Obozo sends them to a gulag.