McConnell: I’m Filibustering Seventeen Judges Because Reid Made Republicans ‘Look Bad’

[Galraedia]

In an exchange that seems designed to prove why fewer Americans approve of Congress than approve of communism or the BP oil spill, Senate Leaders Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) engaged in a long debate this morning over why Reid is currently trying to break seventeen filibusters of President Obama’s judicial nominees. The exchange culminated with McConnell admitting that, even though all these judges will be confirmed eventually, he is blocking them now because he is upset that Reid’s making him look bad:

REID: I’ve got a great idea. My friend the Republican Leader said these judges are all going to get approved anyway, so I’ve got an idea. Let’s go to this IPO bill immediately after finishing the highway bill, with the agreement that we’ll dispose of these judges immediately after that. . . .

McCONNELL: It is highly unlikely any of these district judges are not going to be confirmed. We’ve done a number of them this year. We’ve done seven this year. District judges are almost never defeated. This is just a very transparent attempt to try to slam dunk the minority and make them look like they are obstructing things they aren’t obstructing. We object to that. We don’t think that meets the standard of civility that should be expected in the Senate. And, so, any effort to make the minority look bad or attempt to slam dunk them that is sort of manufactured as this is is gonna, of course, be greeted with resistance.

Watch it:

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/13/444005/mcconnell-im-filibustering-seventeen-judges-because-reid-made-republicans-look-bad/

[indepat]

1. Republicans are best at promoting hate and divisiness and obstructing the operation

of government: they are emphatically, imo, a virulent enemy within. Then, of course, I might be wrong.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Mitch is a true patriot

[librechik]

3. anything anybody tries to do will be greeted with resistance from the Repubs

It's what they do. It's who they are. President Obama and The People are the enemy.

[mfcorey1]

4. Turtle faced idiot!

[gratuitous]

5. If you don't want to be called an obstructionist, Yertle

Stop obstructing things. By his own statement, McConnell says the nominees are qualified and should be confirmed. But he is obstructing their confirmation because he's been called obstructionist.

So the federal courts fall a little further behind, the backlog of cases piles up a little higher, and litigants are denied their day in court because Mitch McConnell's fee-fees are butt-hurt. How does everyone feel about that?

[EC]

6. Huh?

They already look bad, because they are bad...so this will just make them look more bad...rotten to the core bad. Go ahead McConnell, you're an old has been anyway and hopefully on your way out next time you're up for re-election. Those chins are a clue to your agenda...in the olden days chins like that were a sign of the rich upper class as was fat, so we see who you are.

[LynneSin]

7. I don't think Reid had to do alot of work to make that happen

GOP do a good job making themselves look bad all on their own

[hifiguy]

8. Gads, Yertle is a tool.

[lsewpershad]

9. Like a spoiled child

[Uncle Joe]

10. No one has to try, McConnell; you're making yourself look bad, get over your self-induced pique and

do the work.

Thanks for the thread, Galraedia.

[SDjack]

11. The system in the Senate runs on the principle of "pleasure and pain".

Mostly, the current situation is due to Reid's weak behavior in dispensing those. He has the ability to punish Republican bad behavior with pain, but he doesn't. That encourages Republicans to act increasingly bad and to generate crises, otherwise known to common people as "snits" or dislocated nose joints.

[11 Bravo]

12. So, in order to prove that Republicans are not obstructing the business of the Senate, they will ...

proceed to obstruct the business of the Senate.
Trust me, none of these clowns is ever going to be asked to the bring potato salad to a MENSA picnic.

[surrealAmerican]

13. So, in order not to be called "obstructionist", they will obstruct the conformation process?

... and presumably their constituents will be impressed with how unobstructing their obstruction is.


Who votes for these people?

[fascisthunter]

14. No, you are just a right wing dweeb