MSNBC playing selective reporter again?

[montana500]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7619805/

"Political showdown
Democrats blocked 10 appointments in Bush’s first term. The president has renominated seven of the 10 since he won re-election, and Democrats have threatened to filibuster them again."


nteresting how they leave out the fact the majority were not blocked.

[wildwww2]

1. I`m not stupid enough to turn on my TV and expect to hear any facts

about anything. Just Karl Roves propaganda is all I ever hear. I rarely turn the TV on except to play my video games. I do know how to read. So I don`t have to listen to any overpaid Bu$h followers. They are mostly sick excuses for Americans. As is Bu$h himself.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[ohioan]

2. Notice they never challenge GOP claim that filibusters unprecedented?

Even though that's an outright Republican lie?

First of all, filibusters of judicial nominations have happened frequently over the years. Abe Fortas is the most famous incident. But many more have occurred over the years. The Republicans most recently filibustered some of Clinton's nominees, including Richard Paez, a Hispanic nominee from Texas who was filibustered by Jeff Sessions, who is now wringing his hands about how wrong the filibuster is.

Of course, once the Republicans took over Congress in '95, they didn't need to filibuster any of Clinton's judges since they controlled the Judiciary Committee and the Senate schedule and, thus, they just made sure that the nominees they didn't like never made it to a vote. More than 60 of Clinton's nominees never got a vote - many of those never even got a hearing. Filibusters are only necessary if you're in the minority. If you're the majority, you just don't schedule a vote. Done.

The Republicans are whining that it now takes 60 votes to confirm a Bush judge. Hell, that's an improvement over the Clinton years when it took 100 votes to confirm a judge since the objection of just one Republican Senator was enough to keep a nomination from ever seeing the light of day.

Why isn't the press pointing this out? Oh, I forgot. They're too liberal.