Why is Obama complaining about procedural maneuvers that Senate Republicans are using when he himself….?
used the same ones to his party’s benefit?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303801_pf.html
The Washington Post portrays the president as hypocritical, noting that this is “a legislative tactic he once practiced himself”:
In 2005, a year after his election to the Senate, Obama placed a hold on Susan Bodine to lead the Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees Superfund and emergency cleanup programs because the agency had missed a deadline on new regulations for lead paint exposure.
In September 2006, Obama and Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) blocked Robert L. Wilkie’s nomination as a Defense Department assistant secretary over a long-delayed Pentagon report on Midwestern wind farms.
And Obama joined with other Democrats in October 2007 to block the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Election Commission. Von Spakovsky later withdrew; Wilkie and Bodine were eventually confirmed.
Simple: What’s always wrong for Republicans to do, is always right for Democrats to do, at least in Democrats eyes.
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