GOP obstruction is becoming more and more outrageous by the day. Obama is finally had enough and is opening up a direct confrontation with this obstruction with his nomination of three judges to the federal appeals court in Washington. This court has had vacancies for years as the GOP has filibustered nominee after nominee.
It's a great time for the President to be fighting back against this GOP obstruction with Harry Reid poised to go nuclear if they don't ratchet down their obstruction.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-harry-reid-and-filibuster-reform.html
It's also going to put substantive issues back on the table while the GOP keeps trying to flag fake scandals with all kinds of very tortured attempts to somehow link the IRS-Tea Party question to the President. I've suggested before that the GOP ginned up scandals is a double-edged sword that in the long term at least will probably hurt them much more than the Democrats.
Greg Sargent has a good analysis that suggests that there is something of a media backlash against the GOP scandals. right now.
"Perhaps I’m overly optimistic, but I have to say that I’m seeing the stirrings of a media backlash to the GOP overhyping of all of these scandals. Things seem significantly better than they were in the 1990s.
It's a great time for the President to be fighting back against this GOP obstruction with Harry Reid poised to go nuclear if they don't ratchet down their obstruction.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-harry-reid-and-filibuster-reform.html
It's also going to put substantive issues back on the table while the GOP keeps trying to flag fake scandals with all kinds of very tortured attempts to somehow link the IRS-Tea Party question to the President. I've suggested before that the GOP ginned up scandals is a double-edged sword that in the long term at least will probably hurt them much more than the Democrats.
Greg Sargent has a good analysis that suggests that there is something of a media backlash against the GOP scandals. right now.
"Perhaps I’m overly optimistic, but I have to say that I’m seeing the stirrings of a media backlash to the GOP overhyping of all of these scandals. Things seem significantly better than they were in the 1990s.
It’s true that some news orgs have been way too quick to inflate the importance of this or that detail of what the White House knew and when about the timing of the impending inspector general’s report on the IRS scandal. But we’re also seeing a very serious effort in many cases to separate the scandal wheat from the chaff. The Washington Post has done great work detailing, contextualizing, and demythologizing what those emails concerning the Benghazi talking points really told us. The New York Times has done deeply reported, nuanced work on what really drove the IRS targeting of conservatives."
"Meanwhile, some D.C. journos are now openly reacting badly to GOP scandal hyping. Remember that Daily Caller “scoop” reporting that the former IRS commissioner visited the White House 157 times? Garance Franke-Ruta’s debunking of the story prompted asurprisingly sharp discussion of it on Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources yesterday, with the Post’s Dana Milbank ripping into it as ”shoddy reporting.” Meanwhile, House GOP investigations leader Darrell Issa is getting pilloried by reporters for suggesting, with zero evidence, that Obama administration officials coordinated IRS targeting of conservatives. CNN’s Candy Crowley insistently cornered Issa over the claim yesterday, and Ron Fournier (who has not refrained from slamming the White House) tore into Issa for resorting to “cherry picked evidence” and “weasel words.”
"Also see today’s big Times overview of the House GOP prosecution of these scandals, which is appropriately skeptical, flatly suggesting that Republicans are allowing “investigatory zeal” to displace “serious legislating.”
Meanwhile they have no positive agenda-the usual policy nihilism that seeks nothing but to harm the President politically or now maybe help in the 2014 election races-maybe Hilary can somehow be tarnished by the non-existent Benghazi scandal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/06/04/the-morning-plum-behind-jubilation-about-scandals-gop-is-rudderless-and-adrift/
So this fight over substance-why the GOP continues to deliberately keep this important D.C. circuit court under-filled-4 of the current SCJ Justices are from this court-is coming at a great moment. Between this and Reid going 'nuclear' obstruction is going to be called onto the carpet.
So this fight over substance-why the GOP continues to deliberately keep this important D.C. circuit court under-filled-4 of the current SCJ Justices are from this court-is coming at a great moment. Between this and Reid going 'nuclear' obstruction is going to be called onto the carpet.
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