02-05-2010, 04:32 PM
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/02/senate_l...cking.html
Matt Ygesias asks a good question:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archiv...t-down.php
This is a truly horrible precedent. ANY Senator can do the same thing. This could easily open up a supertanker full of worms. The Senate is becoming more and more dysfunctional.
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, is blocking Senate action on executive branch nominations, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said this afternoon in an e-mail.
In response to a question from the Press-Register, Reid spokeswoman Regan Lachapelle confirmed that Shelby has placed a "blanket hold" on most pending nominations.
Matt Ygesias asks a good question:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archiv...t-down.php
Why, after all, should a great nation of 300 million people have a functioning government if preventing the government from functioning can help a lone Senator advance parochial interests?
This is a truly horrible precedent. ANY Senator can do the same thing. This could easily open up a supertanker full of worms. The Senate is becoming more and more dysfunctional.