"Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:30350$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>> Today's GOP. Greed, Obstruction, and Perversion.

 RS>> Washington (CNN) - Frustrated Democrats went to the Senate floor
 EH>   Friday to RS> seek Republican approval for a long list of
 EH>   administration nominees RS> currently blocked by controversial
 EH>   secret holds placed by GOP senators.

 RS>> But a Republican senator objected to each of them as they came
 EH>   up.

 RS>> "Most of the people on the list, we don't know why they're
 EH>   sitting there. RS> We don't even know who's making them sit there,"
 EH>   complained Sen. Claire RS> McCaskill, D-Missouri, who is
 EH>   spearheading Democratic efforts to banish RS> secret holds. "Enter
 EH>   stage left, the anonymous hold. Or as I like to call RS> it, nobody
 EH>   can blame me cause they don't know who I am."

 RS>> McCaskill said the delay in approving these nominees is
 EH>   particularly RS> agonizing because most of them passed out of
 EH>   committee with little or no RS> opposition.

 RS>> "If there is a legitimate complaint or grievance against any
 EH>   nominee, I RS> think any senator has a right to be heard and appeal
 EH>   to the body for a RS> vote," Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the
 EH>   number two Democrat, said RS> Thursday. "But secret holds, I think,
 EH>   have become a reprehensible part of RS> the process here and need to
 EH>   end."

 RS>> http://tinyurl.com/2vgwyu

 RS>> Here's a list of the holds:

 RS>> http://tinyurl.com/2va59nw

 EH> Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

 EH> We went through 8 years of Democrat obstructionism, but now it's all
 EH> the Republicans' fault.

 EH> You people are hilarious to watch.

When the GOP controlled the presidency, House *AND* Senate, democrats
would put holds on people nominated by Bush.

HOWEVER...

Today's GOP is obstructing EVERYTHING.

*EVERY* democrat bill gets filibustered.

And it took a threat of recess appointments before the GOP would allow
some of Obama's nominees even a vote. And then, those same republicans
would vote *FOR* the nominee.

The Senate GOP is run by a whore, who has been bought and paid for by
banks, oil companies and "defense" industries.

And he has his cronies, like religious kook DeMinted.

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