They call it Gum to Death

[Robbien]

It has a name. You know, the run around, setting up committees, going on talk radio/cable television, etc. all in order to stop any action by Dems. It is called Gum to Death.

They are doing it right now on the attornies

On Jan. 18, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee, under oath, that “with respect to every United States attorney position in this country, we will have a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed United States attorney.”

But e-mails reveal that the Justice Department was already planning to install Karl Rove-protege Tim Griffin as U.S. attorney in Arkansas by taking advantage of a Patriot Act provision that allows the President to appoint “interim” U.S. attorneys for indefinite periods of time, bypassing the Senate confirmation process altogether.

The administration understood that its plan to skirt Congress would be met with severe criticism. In a Dec. 19 email, Sampson wrote to a White House aide, explaining the administration’s strategy for countering the criticism:

We should gum this to death. sk the senators to give Tim a chance…then we can tell them we’ll look for other candidates, ask them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their candidates, and otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done in “good faith,” of course.

With little attention, this scenario is exactly what is playing out now, as the White House is running out the clock to keep Griffin in office.

more
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/17/griffin-white-house/

[Little Wing]

1. I stopped paying for cable awhile ago

but when I do see it, or clips of it, all that strikes me is how utterly useless all that 'talking head' action really is. It's not even talk, it's blather. Two blathering idiots under the control of a media whore. Pointless.

David Byrne was so far ahead of his time it's stunning.

[MADem]

2. IT's all in 'good faith' of COURSE... nt