Congressional Crybaby
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he has not ruled out the option of shutting down the chamber to put fresh pressure on Democrats to confirm President Bush’s stalled judicial nominees.
“We’re certainly not happy with the situation, and a lot of different options to respond to that are under consideration,” McConnell told The Hill when asked about whether he was open to bringing the chamber’s business to a halt.
“We’ve made no decisions on where we go from here,” he added. “But there is a widespread sense of dissatisfaction about the way circuit court nominees have been treated.”
His statement came after Republicans brought a Judiciary Committee meeting to a near-standstill to vent their frustrations with what they said was Democratic foot-dragging to confirm 10 pending nominees to federal appeals courts. They complained that there have been no committee hearings on nominees since last September, and say that at least nine more nominees need to be confirmed by the end of Bush’s term in order to match the 15 judges the Republican-controlled Senate approved in the final two years of the Clinton administration.
Is this what the GOP has been reduced to? Guess they just can't put the 2006 election results behind them.
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