About five and a half months ago, Carolyn Colvin was nominated to become Deputy Commissioner of Social Security. No confirmation hearing has been scheduled. The likely problem is the same as for dozens of other nominations stalled in the Senate: Republican obstructionism -- using the threat of filibuster. Probably, the obstruction is not aimed at her. It is just generally gumming up the works, trying to make it hard for the Obama Administration to move forward on any front, especially the health care front, hoping this will lead to voter dissatisfaction with Democrats. Ms. Colvin is caught in the middle.
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Republican obstructionism.
What else is new ?
This is just my opinion and not expressed as fact. But republicans don't care about poor working class people or poor disabled folks or poor middle class folks. I give as an example, the kentucky senator. But every year some poor hillbilly vote for these gop politicians
We all know the Democrats never blocked any of Bush's nominations, or tried to make him look bad. LOL
People don't want his heath care "reform" and we can't afford it, so keep on obstructing Republicans.
Democrats care so much for the poor that they want to make sure they are forever dependent on the government.
"Bunning insisted that the $10 billion needed to extend the benefits be offset by other savings rather than added to the deficit. “If we can’t find $10 billion somewhere for a bill that everybody in this body supports, we will never pay for anything,” Mr. Bunning said."
So if the Democrats cared about the unemployed all they had to do is make cuts in other programs to offset the cost of the bill.
It's very clear that the Democrats love poor people. They keep making more of them.
"I give as an example, the kentucky senator."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Jim-Bunning-has-a-point-86009802.html
"Truck loads of abuse have been dumped on retiring Kentucky Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, who challenged Congress to heed its own rules and stop spending money it doesn't have, specifically $10 billion for unemployment benefits, COBRA health insurance subsidies, transportation construction projects and much else. Under its "Pay-Go" rules, Congress is not supposed to approve funding increases without an equal amount being cut elsewhere from the federal budget. That's the law the Democratic majority in both chambers of Congress approved. President Obama praised it, too, saying, "Now Congress will have to pay for what it spends, just like everybody else."
"Second, unlike his critics, Bunning has a realistic solution -- use unspent funds from the $787 billion economic stimulus program..."
This just goes to show that all of Obama's budget freeze and deficit reduction talk, is just that, talk.
Sure, let's balance the budget on the backs of the unemployed. Suddenly Repubs care about balance the budget? I don't think so. It is all politics and they make points when they try to grind government to a halt in order to show how dysfunctional Congress is and winning the votes of the disenchanted. Pure opposition politics -- there is no high road there.
"Sure, let's balance the budget on the backs of the unemployed."
All they had to do is cut 100 billion somwhere else, or as Bunning suggested us the unspent Stimulus money.
However, it's moot point now that Bunning gave in.
This goes to show how one sided thw Washington Post, NY Times and other liberal media sources are.
Every story focused on Bunning the Republican hurting the unemployed, but not one mentioned his reason for doing it or the Pay As You Go law Obama signed into law earlier this year..
OK, enough discussion of the budget situation. There's plenty of other places online to debate that. I'm going to delete any further comments that don't relate more directly to Colvin's nomination.
CTH
I've always thought that BHO should just use his recess appointment power for these nominees. Geez, the Deputy Secretary of the Air Force is held up, and that's a much more important job than DCO. Bipartisanship has been dead from the moment he took the oath of office-time to get these folks to work.
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