Senator Backs Down From Blocking Obama's Nominees
February 9th, 2010by Glynn Wilson
An Alabama Senator with long-standing ties to the US military-industrial complex and an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama is backing down from a direct confrontation with the White House today after taking the unprecedented step of announcing last week that he would filibuster all the president’s appointments to secure earmarks for his home state.
US Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican who switched from the Democratic Party to be part of the Gingrich revolution in 1994, placed a hold on more than 80 presidential nominations before the Senate last week. He relented on Monday, saying he had simply been trying “to get the White House’s attention.”
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February 9th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
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February 9th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
I certainly gave it a digg. It is truly a good example of the problem with politics today. This country is in a very bad place and we need to unite to support our president in getting business taken care of. Just getting his attention is code for just showing him how much power i have. Makes me sick.
February 10th, 2010 at 9:07 am
This kind of thing may be the name of the game this year for the Republicans in general. They believe, rightly or wrongly, that they can score big in the mid-term elections in November. In order to do that they have to make sure little, if anything, gets done.
This is politics in America in 2010, summed up by my favorite Doonesbury quote, “A Darwinian nightmare of competing special interest groups.”