{"id":22291,"date":"2014-03-20T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22291"},"modified":"2014-03-20T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:00:36","slug":"when-what-goes-around-comes-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22291","title":{"rendered":"When What Goes Around Comes Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year the Senate Democrats<\/a> voted to change their rules (when Republicans discussed this, it was called the nuclear option<\/a>) and allow the President’s nominees to be confirmed with a simple majority vote<\/a> rather than the 60-vote threshold previously required to end the debate and actually vote. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but didn’t quite work out as planned.<\/p>\n

Today’s Washington Examiner<\/a> posted a story about the possible unintended consequences of exercising the nuclear option.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

But Democrats overlooked a fatal flaw in the strategy: In a tough election year<\/a> when Obama’s approval<\/a> ratings are low, Democrats in tough races could defect on key nominees.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In March, that has already happened with two of the president’s choices for influential administration posts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, several Senate Democrats joined Republicans in voting down Debo Adegbile<\/a>, Obama’s choice to head the Justice Department<\/a>‘s Civil Rights Division<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conservatives aggressively opposed Adegbile’s nomination because of his legal work in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/a>, who was convicted of the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police<\/a> officer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eight Democrats ended up voting against confirmation \u2014 with Reid initially voting in favor and then switching his vote to no, to allow him to bring up the nomination again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This did not go as planned. The next nominee to run into a problem was Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, a Harvard and Yale-educated former emergency room doctor, nominated for surgeon general. Conservative Democrats opposed the nomination because of Dr. Murthy’s stand on gun control (which he considers a health issue).<\/p>\n

So it now makes no sense to blame the Republicans for blocking nominees (although the Democrats will probably continue to do that regardless of the facts). The fact that the Democrat Congressional support of President Obama is no longer reliable is due to two factors–President Obama’s<\/a> approval ratings are in the 30’s and this is an election year. As more Americans wake up to the disaster that is President Obama’s Presidency, more Democrats will begin to distance themselves from the President and make decisions based on their own future well being. Get out the popcorn, it is going to be an interesting year.<\/p>\n

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