HEY Republicans - You Lost! Senate Confirmations Being Held Hostage

[Mr. Ected]

"Senate Republicans are now privately threatening to derail the confirmation of key Obama administration nominees for top legal positions by linking the votes to suppressing critical torture memos from the Bush era. A reliable Justice Department source advises me that Senate Republicans are planning to "go nuclear" over the nominations of Dawn Johnsen as chief of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the Department of Justice and Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel if the torture documents are made public. The source says these threats are the principal reason for the Obama administration's abrupt pull back last week from a commitment to release some of the documents. A Republican Senate source confirms the strategy. It now appears that Republicans are seeking an Obama commitment to safeguard the Bush administration's darkest secrets in exchange for letting these nominations go forward. (...) Scott Horton


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017615.php

[Renew Deal]

1. Up or down vote! Nuclear Option!

:nuke:

[ashling]

5. Remember when every Republican Parrot was sqwauking:

Up or Down, Up or Sown - SQWAUK!

President gets his pick, President get's his pick!

Isn't that how we ended up with Chief of Injustice Roberts and Scalito?

[JDPriestly]

2. The Obama Justice Department needs to get it over and start

the prosecutions. Get the information out to the public. The furor will be tremendous. Most Americans, like most Germans in WWII, really don't know what is going on.

[bdamomma]

3. damn the repigs are running scared, the truth will come out and

who was involved.

[rox63]

4. Another reason the repukes desperately want to keep Al Franken from being seated

The Dems would be extremely close to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. They would only need to peel away one repuke to pass anything they wanted.