I call bullshit on you, you partisan hack. "Because the Republicans will basically do anything to muck up Obama’s ability to perform his job—how else are they supposed to return to power, being bereft of worthwhile ideas of their own."
BULLSHIT. Obama's fucking up his own job quite well. More war anyone? Bailouts to Wall Street while millions lose their jobs and homes? Corporate welfare for health insurance companies? Attacks on public education and teachers' unions? No progress on lgbt rights? No progress on immigration reform?
As long as idiots like you make every fucking excuse in the world to defend your shitty politicians, we will never have change. Fuck you and your racist, sexist, homophobic, corporate-coddling, environment-destroying Democratic Party.
Points very well taken. But in vetting nominees Obama needs to find someone who knows how to answer honestly the frist time, too:
But GOP opposition to Southers escalated rapidly after The Washington Post reported that he had given Congress and the White House misleading information about incidents two decades ago in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database to obtain information about his estranged wife's new boyfriend, possibly in violation of privacy laws.
[...]
Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University and a specialist in presidential transitions, said the collapse of the nomination raises questions about how the White House and Congress review top job candidates. "This is another example of where the presidential vetting process has failed," Light said. "They should have detected this early and moved on to another candidate."
Southers is a seriously flawed nominee who pussied out rather than face the music.
Blame Obama.
Blame Southers.
Blame your momma, if you like.
You are deluding yourself (a common Liberal past time, for sure...) if you blame the Republicans.
re: the Senate and "the 'anti-progressive' nature of the institution as a whole".
The Senate is doing it's job wonderfully.
It is designed to be a brake, to introduce thoughtful deliberation into the process.
Liberals should learn to work the system instead of endlessly bitching and whining about it.
But then again, the Founding Fathers weren't as clever as you, were they Jake...
Jake,
We can understand your frustration and disgust with the Senate.
Really.
But you are pissing in the wrong direction.
Direct the stream down your leg. Into your own shoes.
Washington State sends two of the emptiest, palest, most uninspiring insipid wet noodle excuses for 'leadership' that one could imagine to the Senate.
Shit in- Shit out, as the techies say...
Why doesn't Washington scrounge up even one Senator with a pulse and a clue and send them to DC.
Let's start there and see what develops...
BULLSHIT. Obama's fucking up his own job quite well. More war anyone? Bailouts to Wall Street while millions lose their jobs and homes? Corporate welfare for health insurance companies? Attacks on public education and teachers' unions? No progress on lgbt rights? No progress on immigration reform?
As long as idiots like you make every fucking excuse in the world to defend your shitty politicians, we will never have change. Fuck you and your racist, sexist, homophobic, corporate-coddling, environment-destroying Democratic Party.
But GOP opposition to Southers escalated rapidly after The Washington Post reported that he had given Congress and the White House misleading information about incidents two decades ago in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database to obtain information about his estranged wife's new boyfriend, possibly in violation of privacy laws.
[...]
Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University and a specialist in presidential transitions, said the collapse of the nomination raises questions about how the White House and Congress review top job candidates. "This is another example of where the presidential vetting process has failed," Light said. "They should have detected this early and moved on to another candidate."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con…
Blame Obama.
Blame Southers.
Blame your momma, if you like.
You are deluding yourself (a common Liberal past time, for sure...) if you blame the Republicans.
The Senate is doing it's job wonderfully.
It is designed to be a brake, to introduce thoughtful deliberation into the process.
Liberals should learn to work the system instead of endlessly bitching and whining about it.
But then again, the Founding Fathers weren't as clever as you, were they Jake...
moron.
They make me say something I never thought I would; I'm glad my parents are dead and are spared further horrors.
Massachusetts seems to care....
(Democrats outnumber Republicans here more than 3 to 1....)
We can understand your frustration and disgust with the Senate.
Really.
But you are pissing in the wrong direction.
Direct the stream down your leg. Into your own shoes.
Washington State sends two of the emptiest, palest, most uninspiring insipid wet noodle excuses for 'leadership' that one could imagine to the Senate.
Shit in- Shit out, as the techies say...
Why doesn't Washington scrounge up even one Senator with a pulse and a clue and send them to DC.
Let's start there and see what develops...