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05/09/2003 Archived Entry: "Dionne cites interesting numbers on judicial nominees"
Dionne cites interesting numbers on judicial nominees
With all the whining the Republics in Congress do over Jetboy's judicial nominees being blocked, you'd think that those obstructionist Democrats haven't let any nominees through. E. J. Dionne provides some handy totals in today's Post article:
The number of Bush circuit court nominees the Senate has confirmed: 22.
The number of Bush nominees confirmed to the district courts: 101.
The number of Bush judicial nominees currently being filibustered: 2.
The claim that Democrats are being obstructionist: priceless. And laughable.
And to point up the ridiculousness of the Republics' whining about the use of the filibuster, Dionne also gives comparable numbers during the Clinton years:
They had no qualms about using the filibuster to kill President Clinton's nomination of Henry Foster as surgeon general in 1995. Sam Brown, a leader of the movement against the Vietnam War, saw his ambassador-level nomination to head the American delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe blocked by a filibuster in 1994.And filibusters aside, Republicans certainly didn't defer to all of Clinton's judicial nominations. Fifty-five Clinton judicial nominees never got a hearing and 10 more never got a vote in the Judiciary Committee.
And by the way, today is the second anniversary of Jetboy's nomination of Miguel Estrada. Here's to the mighty power of the filibuster!
Replies: somebody speaks up.
The GOP & Hypocrisy - It's What's For Dinner.
Jeebus, these people are re-writing the definition of 'hypocrite'.
Posted by Jason @ 05/09/2003 11:32 AM NY
