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Thursday, November 18, 2004

Heroes of Hypocrisy

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Thursday urged Democrats to stop blocking President Bush's federal court nominees and hinted that he may try to change Senate rules to thwart their delaying tactics.

"One way or another, the filibuster of judicial nominees must end," Frist, R-Tennessee, said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.

The Democrats' ability to stall White House picks for the federal bench was one of the most contentious issues of Bush's first term. Despite the GOP majority in the Senate, Democrats used the threat of a filibuster to block 10 of Bush's nominees to federal appeals courts. The Senate confirmed more than 200 of the president's choices.

What crybabies. The Republicans control both houses of Congress and the Executive Branch and Frist is whining about the Democrats using legal Congressional procedures to block judicial nominees? If it was the Republicans in the minority, you can bet they'd be using every trick in the book to stop a Democratic nominee. Do they have to stack the deck in their favor every single freaking time?? Just play by the rules for once. (Or perhaps don't nominate right-wing wacko nutjobs to the courts - just a thought).

Via the brand new LeftTank.

posted by chris at 4:25 PM
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