Chavez Bites the Dust

[Max Sawicky]

Problem is this could cut two ways.  If we had
a culture wherein any nominee could be rejected
on ideological grounds, then a president could
never get control of his own appointments.
Liberal appointees could be rejected more
easily as well.  If you don't like capital
punishment, you can't be attorney general. The
power of the Senate would be magnified, not a
good thing.  I would not extend this idea to
the Supreme Court, since they are not supposed
to be subordinate to the executive branch.

mbs

Actually, it's interesting that no one ties the "politics of personal
destruction" to the US's bizarre allergy to partisanship.  . . .
If Senators could
just stand up and say, you know, you're a nice human being but I disagree
with your politics, . . .