If at First You Don't Succeed
We all have our New Year's Resolutions. Apparently one of President Bush's is to recycle more. Although most of us think of recycling papers and cans to help the environment, President Bush's idea is to recycle 31 judicial nominees who weren't confirmed in 2002. This does complement his previous pattern of recycling old Iran/Contra figures.
I question how environmentally friendly this is, though. It just produces more hot air. Just imagine the controversy once they arrive at the full Senate for a vote. The mind boggles.
Comments
Nice segue! You had me thinking it was a post on the EPA for a while.
Nicely written (I'm jealous).
Posted by: Ricky | January 8, 2003 10:27 PM
The thing about most of these nominees, though, is that they were turned down in Committee, not by a full vote of the Senate, and most of them were expected to pass a full vote.
Posted by: Alex Knapp | January 8, 2003 11:02 PM
Ricky - Thanks!
Alex - Yes, that is true, but I was mostly thinking of Pickering. Chuck "I Never Saw a Camera I Didn't Like" Schumer has already promised a filibuster. Actually most of them weren't even turned down in Committee. They never even got a vote.
Posted by: Lesley | January 9, 2003 03:08 AM