Howard Bashman has a roundup of the latest developments in the battle over judicial nominations.
Senator Daschle made the following howler on the Senate floor yesterday:
Democrats have sought to participate in the nomination process and work together with the administration and the majority in a bipartisan fashion to confirm public servants in the highest traditions of our Nation.
Regrettably, the administration has chosen to reject the course of bipartisanship, even though Democrats have tried to accommodate the President’s goal of filling judicial vacancies.
Senator Cornyn responded by noting that Senator Daschle has been blocking a BIPARTISAN majority who would confirm these judicial nominations, were it not for the funny math in the Senate where 41 is more than 59 (as Zell Miller notes in his book):
[N]ever before in the history of the United States of America have a handful of Democrats—handful of any
party—been able to successfully block a bipartisan majority from confirming President Bush’s highly qualified judicial nominees.
(Emphasis added.) Clearly, it is Senator Daschle who is really rejecting the course of bipartisanship.
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