Discussion: Liberals Are Fighting To Scuttle This Obama Nominee. Will They Succeed?

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Another proof about how liberal Obama is. Here in Georgia you’d think he was left of Eugene McCathy and nominating Boggs won’t change that one iota.

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“You vote for the nominee you have, not the nominee you wish you had.”

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Boggs is seen by the White House as the price they believed they had to pay to get OTHER judges confirmed onto a federal circuit that’d currently dominated by antifederal southern conservative reptiles and has such an obscene number of vacancies that it serves as the poster for the Justice Delayed = Denied. Given all the lack of enthusiasm among Dem voters for voting in the upcoming Midterms, failing to carry thru this distasteful aspect of the deal means Obama won’t be appointing ANY judges at all to that circuit - meaning a situation that’s currently intolerable will collapse completely for any and all worthy federal claimants until at least the fall of 2017, during which many of those claimants’ lives will fall apart utterly and not a few of them will have died without ever their case go into court for even a procedural motion.

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is uncle t showing his stripes again - Obama, yeah right

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TPM: Will All-Out Liberal Opposition Scuttle Obama Judicial Nominee In Georgia?

One can only hope.

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What party does Obama belong to?

1 Bailouts by Republican W Bush -Obama embraced and extended
2 “War on Terror” by Republican W Bush- Obama expanded
3 Republican’s “No new regulations for Wall Street” - Obama signed worthless ‘reforms’
4 Republican’s plan to cut Social Security benefits - Obama’s 2013 budget included this Republican proposal
5 A ‘stimulus’ that’s 2/3 tax cuts and tax ‘incentives’ and only 1/3 jobs - Obama thought that Republicans were right on! No public employment programs to put people back to work.

So, the Democratic Party has trouble today, not because of Democratic Party policies, but because it must lug along a Republican President.

Of course, Democrats are sick of supporting this pseudo-Democrat and his corporate policies.

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Liberals note that President Barack Obama doesn’t have to nominate someone who is amenable to Republicans because the “blue slip” is simply a courtesy that Democrats can ditch.

The Democrats can ditch the courtesy the same way Republicans ditched it a few years ago.

Orrin Hatch, Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, ignored Democratic “blue slips” that attempted to block or slow down judicial nominees of President George W. Bush. Those nominees had hearings and were ultimately approved by the Senate.

After the Democrats retook the Senate, Patrick Leahy returned to the practice of extending “blue slip” courtesy to the home state Senator… which the Republicans are taking full advantage of:

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Will Sahil Kapur shamelessly troll TPM readers with a question mark headline suggesting that a thing that’s no BFD is a Potential Huge Setback!!! For Obama??? Just putting it out there. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

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These hypothetical “liberals” don’t seem to be aware that Obama isn’t the boss of the Senate.