GOP Plans Vote to Overcome Dems' EPA Block (No more "holds" on nominees)

[Pirate Smile]

GOP Plans Vote to Overcome Dems' EPA Block

By JOHN HEILPRIN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 27, 2005; 11:25 PM

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans will try this week to overcome a Democratic senator's block on President Bush's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

Republicans on Wednesday set up a confrontation over the hold on Stephen Johnson's nomination imposed by Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del. Undoing that Senate hold can require a lengthy process and a motion requiring a 60-vote majority in the 100-member body.

They acted days after Bush expressed frustration with Carper's gambit to extract more information from the administration on competing proposals to modify the Clean Air Act.

Carper told the Senate he hoped Republicans and the White House "would see that maybe the better part of the valor, and the way to get to a win-win situation, is to simply say, 'We'll provide the information that's been requested.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/27/AR2005042701740.html

[renaissanceguy]

1. Life is tough, pugs.

You can't always get your way. Didn't you learn anything in kindergarten? Kids, I tell you...


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.21272015

[rodeodance]

2. I gotta wonder what IS in this info that the WH has been holding for so so

long.

[Azathoth]

3. The GOP is turning into a bunch of angry 5-year-olds

Every time Mommy says "no" to them, they throw a temper tantrum and stomp their feet and shake their fists and cry. These people should be in nursery school, not in the federal government.

[gratuitous]

4. Carper's using the hold to see what the administration is up to

Aren't the people's representatives entitled to see what the administration is using as a basis for rewriting the rules on pollution? I seem to recall that a whole bunch of folks in Louisville were really upset by unresponsive, out of control, unaccountable government officials.

Or does that only hold true for judges who render verdicts that radical right repressives don't like?

See, self-righteous hypocrites (and we know you're lurking -- you can't help yourselves), the way it works is that when you shift your rationale depending on whose ox is being gored, we call that moral relativism, something you're supposed to be against. If you want accountability from government officials, why not start with government officials who are supposed to be accountable in the executive and legislative branches?

Schmucks.