Tomorrow's edition of The Hill has a report headlined "Daschle: Move Dem nominees." Excerpt:
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) is threatening to stall President Bush’s judicial nominees if the president does not take action soon to appoint more than a dozen Democrats to government boards and commissions. ...“There has to be a reciprocal treatment of nominees,” Daschle said in a brief floor statement last week. “It will be very, very difficult for us to move forward on nominations in the future if the matter isn’t resolved.”
So Tom Daschle filibusters nearly all of the nominations to the federal appeals court by President Bush, and expects to be taken seriously when he demands that his Democratic cronies be appointed to federal offices. You have to hand it to the guy for his ability to make the statement above with a sraight face.
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