An article “Shelby Blocks All of Obama’s Nominees” reports “A U.S. senator has taken the extraordinary step of blocking more than 70 of U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominees amid a dispute over a lucrative U.S. Air Force tanker deal, Senate aides said Friday.
“Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, placed a blanket “hold” in part because of the feud pitting Airbus parent EADS and its partner Northrop Grumman against Boeing, his office said.
“ ‘Senator Shelby is holding all of the president’s nominees pending on the Executive Calendar’, a total of ‘70-plus’ people’, said a spokeswoman for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Regan Lachapelle.” (more)
WATCHDOG: The nation elected a president, but through all sorts of use of senatorial prerogatives, he has been thwarted at every turn of the way. At what point is this sheer greed and partisanship rather than duty and patriotism on the part of the Republicans?
Growl!
I find myself more and more grateful for those horrible Republicans who are doing their best to stop Obama from turning our once-great country into the Socialist States of America.