[Din Maker]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Friday. “Director Burwell deserves timely confirmation, and I hope my Republican colleagues will work with us to ensure we fill this important position without unnecessary obstruction and delay.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Up yours Harry. I hope they find a reason to drag it out until after Labor Day.

[Perdogg]

she should answer why the WWII memorial was shutdown last fall.

[Din Maker]

Sen. Joe Manchin introduced Burwell – a fellow West Virginian — at both her confirmation hearings last spring, and stressed her “bipartisan relationships” in a statement praising her HHS nomination. He added that installing Burwell as HHS chief will ensure that “commonsense fixes” to Obamacare will be enacted.

Well Joey, we don't want it fixed, we want it REPEALED!!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So far, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is the rare Republican signaling support, tweeting that Burwell is an “excellent choice” for HHS.

Man I hate this pathetic, drooling, raspy voiced "My Friends" dinosaur! If there ever were a RINO Hall of Fame, McCain would be its Honus Wagner.

[stylin19a]

yet nobody will mention Vince Foster ....

[Paladin2]

She's the Witch implementing:

[Political Junkie Too]

“Director Burwell deserves timely confirmation, and I hope my Republican colleagues will work with us to ensure we fill this important position without unnecessary obstruction and delay.”

1. Of course Reid wants "timely confirmation." He doesn't want this to drag into the prime of the campaign season, where it becomes fodder for Republicans to attack their opponents.

2. Of course his "Republican colleagues will work with us..." It's what they've been trained to do.

3. This is why Reid used the nuclear option to change the Senate rules on filibusters for nominations, something the Republicans were cowards to attempt to do and suckers to think that Democrats wouldn't do it after their supposed goodwill gesture (again, trained to do). Reid knows that he can ram this nomination through with 51 votes as fast as he wants to, and Republicans can't stop it.

-PJ

[Starstruck]

The real question is: What advantage is there to Sebelius resigning and Burwell being offered as the nominee at this point. Republicans cannot fall into a trap on this gambit. Think this through on how it should be played. You can go back to Foster’s trash can blah blah blah. That is not how you want to play this. I think the ploy will be a numbers game along with an ignorance of the HHS facts. She is just there to get them through 2014. Suggestions?