I’ve said It Before… Let Them Filibuster
Via Think Progress:
A reliable Justice Department source advises me that Senate Republicans are planning to “go nuclear” over the nominations of Dawn Johnsen as chief of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel if the torture documents are made public. The source says these threats are the principal reason for the Obama administration’s abrupt pullback last week from a commitment to release some of the documents. A Republican Senate source confirms the strategy. It now appears that Republicans are seeking an Obama commitment to safeguard the Bush administration’s darkest secrets in exchange for letting these nominations go forward.
Oh for crying out loud, call their bluff. Frankly, I’m sick of Republican histrionics. Make them filibuster. Truth is they have more to lose over this stunt than Democrats. Let them keep enforcing that Party of No reputation they have going… since it’s working so well for them.
Tags: President Obama, Republican Party
I’m going to be very, very disappointed if the WH caves in to this sort of blackmail. 2010 can’t get here fast enough and we’ll see what happens when they can hold the Republican caucus in a phone booth.
The stakes couldn’t be higher for Republicans.
As long as those memos are secret, Republicans can laugh off calls for prosecutions and a truth commission as a political witch hunt.
But I suspect that once those memos are out, prosecutions would be unavoidable.
“2010 can’t get here fast enough and we’ll see what happens when they can hold the Republican caucus in a phone booth.”
problem is, most of them are too fat to fit ONE of them in a phone booth. maybe Eric Cantor and Michelle “Jefferson Davis Timothy McVay revolution crazy bitch” Bachman … but id bet money she is toast in 2010
I thought it was Don Johnson.
Rebecca wrote: 2010 can’t get here fast enough and we’ll see what happens when they can hold the Republican caucus in a phone booth.
LOL.
I want them to filibuster. Do it. I also think it shouldn’t be a 60 vote threshold, it should be a 41-vote minimum at least. We’re begging you Harry Reid and President Obama!
Those two aren’t fit to serve in those positions anyway. The policies of surrender and appeasement need to be opposed.
If someone is not willing to protect this nation, they can stay out of national security positions. The White House needs to put this nation above its left wing politics.
Oh, and the lawyer brigade of Regents was eminently qualified?
Yes
David slays me.
Who has won more appeals and Supreme Court cases? People on Yale’s board or Regent’s board? By any objective standard Regent is as effective of a law school as Harvard or Yale. The only difference is that it is not part of the left wing cabal.
’nuff said. QED.
Yale. Count them. That was easy.
Supreme court clerkships, Yale vs. Regents, 1996-2006:
Yale: 70
Regents: 0
Not one single Regents graduate was deemed more worthy than a Yale graduate of a SCOTUS clerkship. Apparently a diploma from Regents impresses no one, not even Scalia.
that was embarrassing
Yeah, why don’t they get someone super-qualified, like Monica Goodling!