Becker nomination blocked: I love this republickan logic

[Lesleymo]

The GOP, along with Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln, blocked the nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, after stalling the process since last April.

Here's their reasoning (if you can even call it reasoning) - first they asked him hundreds of questions. Then they blocked him because he had garnered "a greater level of public scrutiny and larger than usual volumes of questions."

Good grief. And they get away with this stuff?!

From Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/carl-levin-filibuster-cou_n_455814.html

The GOP went to great intellectual lengths to find a reason to oppose Becker, a labor lawyer. Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming, the highest-ranking Republican on the committee that approved Becker, presented a novel argument. He noted that Becker had answered hundreds of questions that Republicans had submitted to him, and then used that fact to make the logical leap that he was a questionable nominee.

"If a nominee garners a greater level of public scrutiny and larger than usual volumes of questions, we should ask why. This unique scrutiny should be a signal that the individual has raised a great level of concern and controversy," Enzi argued from the Senate floor.

[jimshoes]

1. See, if a ship sails from Portugal heading west and

fails to return, it must have fallen off the edge of the world. Therefore we can state categorically that the Earth is flat and no amount of evidence can alter that fact for them. See, that's how they think.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Regardless of whether Sen. Al Franken is involved with this committee or not

I hope he's preparing a scathing critique of these pigs that will be read & entered into the Congressional record.

[daleman]

3. So what your saying is that he is a "questionable" candidate?

Sure that's one way to look at it. Perhaps they should not ask any questions of the next nominee and that person could be "unquestionably" the best possible candidate for the position.
So the question is.....to question or not to question...or is that the answer?

[Lesleymo]

4. Question him all you want

but then don't complain that he got too many questions.

Any questions?

[daleman]

5. Nope only answers....just ask me!

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. According to the Boston Globe, 85 senators voted

Where were the others?