whonew wrote:
AZKC wrote:
But turning Advice & Consent into a partisan cudgel is not merely a dereliction of high office.
It's also a betrayal of the People.
Well thank God it's only the Republicans that do this.

Are you contending that the way the last two Democratic president have been treated in this regard is pretty-much standarf proceedure and that Democrats have behaved in exactly this way?

Is that what you're saying?
Can you explain to me why Miguel Estrada and Charles Pickering never got Senate consent?

  

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