Riverman..from a fellow sailor, thank you for your service. We will have to agree to disagree. With that said, I would be proud to have a libation with you.
FWIW Ginsburg is 82 and she's had pancreatic cancer and heart surgery. If a republican is elected and she has to retire during his term, democrats may lose a seat. The seat that passed ObamaCare, for example. If she retired today, Obama could nominate a conservative (let the republicans give him a name) and an uber liberal and they'd both pass.
Don't put ridiculous words into my views...I never said Colin Powell did anything wrong...I'm saying he had her job and in his view, she's done nothing wrong..but if you've had a top secret job description...which I have had..you know that the job entails covert activities and black ops all the time...has for centuries. Difference is...we now have emails. If Hilary did something wrong..it should be addressed...if it's a tactic to discredit her, it shouldn't. Fact is Denny, neither you nor I know....but Republican war hero Colin Powell probably does.
from my previous link: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/senateconfirm.html The Senate rejected 27 (20%) of the 149 nominees to the Supreme Court made between the nation's founding and 2005. ... In the modern era, the Senate rejection of a Supreme Court nominee that is most clearly based on concerns with the nominee's politics or judicial philosophy was the 1987 defeat of Ronald Reagan nominee Robert Bork.
total agreement here. The lack of consideration for the welfare of so many people will never be know. She did in fact compromise the lives of many people.
I gave Obama credit when he publicly identified a serious problem concerning an environmental issue. Obama also identified the cause of the problem. He said there are too many government agencies managing various aspects of the problems. The overlapping management makes it impossible to correct the problems. I agree with Obama on his identifying both the problem and the cause. The simple answer is to combine the responsibilities of the federal agencies involved into the fewest possible number, one would be my goal. Only then can proper management begin to improve the environmental problems. The person responsible for restructuring the agencies is…….Obama. What has Obama done to correct a problem that he knows about and has the power to fix? NOTHING!
Yeah, but, very rarely have appointees not been confirmed. Blocking an appointee for practically a whole year would cause a constitutional crisis. I don't even think Scalia would be in favor of that.
and guess what....they haven't said anything..they haven't proven anything...you're a victim of wishful thinking here Denny..but it seems to give you joy so have at it
http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/252863-colin-powell-i-used-two-computers-at-state Powell wouldn’t say whether it was inappropriate for Clinton to be sending work emails -- some of which were later determined to contain classified information -- from a private account. He noted that the State inspector general and FBI are looking into the matter, and that Clinton and her top aides are testifying before Congress. “It’s best for me to talk about what I know and not what occurred under Secretary Clinton’s jurisdiction,” Powell said. Hmmmmm....
347 days, I read earlier. 20% not confirmed, period. He can put people up for vote and the republicans will vote them down. They may not even get out of the judicial committee. It is quite constitutional.
Why not just block all the appointees, the justices will die out and we will get rid of the Supreme Court! Let's not appoint anymore judges to any federal courts. Denny says it is quite constitutional to just get rid of the courts.
