Judicial confirmations have nose-dived in the Obama administration

[Hawaii Hiker]

They sure have, never before in any administration have so few nominees (at a similar point) been confirmed...

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/07/judicial_confirmations.html

[damntexdem]

1. Hey, the RW has been reshaping the judiciary to serve their masters.

They don't want a mere president messing up their hard work.

[enough]

2. Another tactic for disappearing the Obama administration. It seems to be working.

Somehow the party that holds the both presidency and the legislative branch just can't seem to get their nominees into office. I wonder how much the Dems and Obama actually care about this.

[Uzybone]

5. rewrite the rules of the Senate is pretty much to only option

[Bitwit1234]

3. I blame Obama he can appoint them during recesses look at all those

Bush did.

[Uzybone]

4. really? Bush made judicial recess appointments?

Can you name 2 of them?

Or admit you don't know what you are talking about regarding pretty much anything.

[theothersnippywshrub]

6. Pickering and Pryor. n/t

[Uzybone]

7. Id rather have permanent appointments thank you

playing politics with the judiciary is a GOP tactic. It stinks to high heavens.

[theothersnippywshrub]

9. I agree. But there have been over 300 recess appointments to the bench (12 to the Supreme Court )

since Washington's first term. However, there have been only three in the last 25 years (One by Clinton, two by Oedipus Tex.)

[Uzybone]

10. Oedipus Tex. Brilliant!!! LOL

[theothersnippywshrub]

11. Thanks. If I were a presidential historian writing a book about Bush, that would be the title.

It explains nearly everything about his presidency, except for his defeat by that pretzel. The tax cuts, the flight suit and his obsession from day one with invading Iraq are the most obvious examples, but there are dozens (maybe hundreds) of statements by people in his administration saying that Oedipus Tex would not repeat the mistakes of Bush the Lesser.

[Hawkowl]

8. Maybe he should nominate Rethuglicans?

You know in the spirit of Bi-fuckmeover-ship? It's a good thing Obama knows how to give away the store in a compromise, otherwise nothing could get done! Oh, wait a minute....Never mind. The OP says nothing IS getting done. Well, carry on then.

[Igel]

12. A POV from 3/2010

Something about the OP's methodology bugged me. It felt like the stats were masking more than revealing. It also tickled a memory about something I'd read that said pretty much the opposite from what some of upthread posters were saying.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2010/0407_judicial_nominations_wheeler/0407_judicial_nominations_wheeler.pdf

Interestingly, it points out that fewer were nominated as of March but that the rate was picking up rather dramatically. That would help account for the low percentage, even if Obama's early nominees got fairly good results.

[KingFlorez]

13. The Republicans demanded up or down votes on all of Bush's nominees

It was a mantra they drove home and got many of his approved. Obama and the Democrats need to take the same line.