UNPRECEDENTED: Sen Shelby is placing a hold on ALL Nominees FOR WHAT? TO GET PORK!

[Vast LWC]

"Congressional dithering on nominees is, in and of itself, nothing new. Four years ago, Republicans were incensed over holds on judicial nominees and then-President George W. Bush's appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency. Some senators even considered trying to change the Senate's approval requirement from 60 to 50 to help speed the process.


But President Barack Obama's first year has brought an unusual number of holds, and on unusually prominent positions. One year into the Bush administration, there were 70 appointees awaiting confirmation. One year into the Obama administration, there are 177. And dozens of those holds are directly affecting the agencies responsible for the United States' security and foreign policy, amid two wars and an amped-up terrorism threat. The United States has no ambassador to Ethiopia, no head of the Office of Legal Counsel, no director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, no agricultural trade representative.


Newsvine - Help Wanted: TSA nominee and 176 other Obama appointees still unconfirmed. One year on, what's taking so long?

177, un-fucking believable. Thanks for helping the Terrorists, Republican Senators!

 

[paperview]

a quick peruse -- somewhere there is a compilation, I just haven't dug around enough yet for a comprehensive list:

Nominations on Hold For 2 Top Science Posts — Physicist, Marine ...

Mar 2, 2009 ... The nominations of two of President Obama's top science advisers have ... on anonymous holds or rumors of anonymous holds, across the board. ...
washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines › Politics › In Congress - Similar

Census nominee has anonymous hold preventing confirmation ...

Census nominee has anonymous hold preventing confirmation. By Ed Brayton 6/24/09 12:24 AM Digg · Tweet. President Obama's nominee to be the director of the ...
michiganmessenger.com/.../census-nominee-has-anonymous-hold-preventing-confirmation -

Harold Koh's Confirmation Blocked By Anonymous Hold

Jun 4, 2009 ... Add Harold Koh to the list of Obama nominees whom Republicans have ... It's possible that this anonymous hold is the work of an honest ...
Harold Koh's Confirmation Blocked By Anonymous Hold - Cached - Similar

Anonymous Senator Places Hold On Key Obama Legal Pick Koh ...



Solis becomes latest nominee slowed by GOP roadblocks (1/23/09 ...

Jan 23, 2009 ... According to GOP aides, the hold was filed because of Solis' support for ... Solis is the latest Obama nominee to hit at a roadblock thrown up by ... Anonymous holds are cowardly. If you are going to obstruct something ...
Solis becomes latest nominee slowed by GOP roadblocks (1/23/09) -- GovExec.com - Cached

Senate Republicans Allegedly Block Key Intelligence Nominations ...

Jan 25, 2010 ... When senators act to hold up nominees anonymously, a Democratic Senate ... a logjam of other pending Obama nominees who are awaiting floor votes. ... placed the anonymous hold or what their motivation was for doing so. ...
blog.newsweek.com/.../senate-republicans-allegedly-block-key-intelligence-nominations.aspx - Cached
Anonymous Senator Places Hold On Key Obama Legal Pick Koh | TPMDC

Jun 3, 2009 ... Anonymous Senator Places Hold On Key Obama Legal Pick Koh ... Add Harold Koh to the list of Obama nominees whom Republicans have decided to ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/.../koh--like-so-many-others--all-tied-up-in-the-senate.php - Cached
CQ Politics | Science Nominees Blocked by Multiple Holds

Mar 3, 2009 ... Science Nominees Blocked by Multiple Holds ... to play a major role in the Obama administration's climate change policy, ... Anonymous holds? Shades of the Starr Chamber. ... Time to change the Anonymous Hold rule. ...
CQ Politics | Science Nominees Blocked by Multiple Holds - Cached

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Do my eyes deceive me? So called Republicans or Libertarians defending earmarks?

Show us the earmark! Where is the line item in the budget inserted by Shelby?

 

[Vast LWC]

Since you cannot find the line item placed in the budget by Shelby I'll take it as you don't know what an earmark is....regardless of how a government contract smells.

That's a bunch of semantic Bullshit.

If you take one extra step to divert federal funds to your home state, then it's not an earmark???

What a bunch of crap.

And again, what does that have to do with appointing people to urgently required positions?

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Since you cannot find the line item placed in the budget by Shelby I'll take it as you don't know what an earmark is....regardless of how a government contract smells.

That's a bunch of semantic Bullshit.

If you take one extra step to divert federal funds to your home state, then it's not an earmark???

What a bunch of crap.

RIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.........it's all semantics now.....

 

[Oddball]

"Congressional dithering on nominees is, in and of itself, nothing new. Four years ago, Republicans were incensed over holds on judicial nominees and then-President George W. Bush's appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency. Some senators even considered trying to change the Senate's approval requirement from 60 to 50 to help speed the process.


But President Barack Obama's first year has brought an unusual number of holds, and on unusually prominent positions. One year into the Bush administration, there were 70 appointees awaiting confirmation. One year into the Obama administration, there are 177. And dozens of those holds are directly affecting the agencies responsible for the United States' security and foreign policy, amid two wars and an amped-up terrorism threat. The United States has no ambassador to Ethiopia, no head of the Office of Legal Counsel, no director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, no agricultural trade representative.


Newsvine - Help Wanted: TSA nominee and 176 other Obama appointees still unconfirmed. One year on, what's taking so long?

So, he can just appoint them to the position of Czar....errrr...ummm....I mean "special assistant", or make a recess appointment.

Wouldn't be the first time or first administration to do so.

 

[Modbert]

Show us the earmark! Where is the line item in the budget inserted by Shelby?

Report: Shelby Blocks All Obama Nominations In The Senate Over AL Earmarks | TPMDC

You should find it wrong that he's blocking all nominations in general. But as for the earmarks:

A $40 billion contract to build air-to-air refueling tankers. From CongressDaily: "Northrop/EADS team would build the planes in Mobile, Ala., but has threatened to pull out of the competition unless the Air Force makes changes to a draft request for proposals." Federal Times offers more details on the tanker deal, and also confirms its connection to the hold.

- An improvised explosive device testing lab for the FBI. From CongressDaily: "[Shelby] is frustrated that the Obama administration won't build" the center, which Shelby earmarked $45 million for in 2008. The center is due to be based "at the Army's Redstone Arsenal

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...onfirms-holds-lashes-out-at-obama.php?ref=fpb

And of course, he's using the whole "we're not as safe" bullshit argument. Face it, he's no Fiscal Conservative.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

They didn't want the Europeans to get the contract for our defense needs. Whether or not it was right or wrong is a different story and can be argued that we shouldn't outsource our defense needs to other countries.

It was a consortium bid. Most of the components would be built and all of the assembly would be done in America, by Northrop/Grumman and their contractors.

Well well well...what do we have here!!!!????

Political Shift
In the end, many analysts think the contract won't be decided on these exacting requirements but on politics. While the initial award was made when the Republicans were still in power and would have brought jobs to GOP strongholds such as Alabama and South Carolina, the political winds have since shifted. With the Democrats in control, that bodes well for Boeing, since most of its factories and employment hubs are concentrated in blue states such as Illinois, Connecticut, and Washington.

Already some Democrats, such as Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Representative John Murtha (D-Pa.), have pressed the Pentagon to pick Boeing, since the World Trade Organization issued a preliminary ruling in mid-September that European governments had given improper subsidies to Airbus.

A Twist in the Boeing-Airbus Tanker Saga - BusinessWeek

You mean kinda like the Democrats now supporting Shelby's call?

If you take one extra step to divert federal funds to your home state, then it's not an earmark???

 

[Liability]

Since you cannot find the line item placed in the budget by Shelby I'll take it as you don't know what an earmark is....regardless of how a government contract smells.

That's a bunch of semantic Bullshit.

If you take one extra step to divert federal funds to your home state, then it's not an earmark???

What a bunch of crap.

And again, what does that have to do with appointing people to urgently required positions?

"Earmark," like many other words, actually HAS a meaning already. So, no.

It's NOT semantic bullshit.

We realize that you, being a lib, are opposed to the use of words within the constraints of their actual meaning. But alas, there it is.

And which positions are "ugently" "needed?"

"Urgent" and "need" are also words that have actual meaning. Really.

 

[Modbert]

McConnell's Office Questions Shelby Story, Then Kicks 'Hold' Questions Back To Him | TPMDC

Behind The Shelby Holds: He Thinks Obama's White House Is Biased Against Alabama | TPMDC

As we reported, Shelby's holds are based, among other things, on two national security programs that would send billions to his home state. One, a multi-billion dollar air-to-air refueling contract currently under review at the Pentagon, has been controversial for years. But in an interview with an Alabama TV station this week, Shelby suggested that what's holding up the contract now could be hometown bias from Obama and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

 

[Oddball]

Since you cannot find the line item placed in the budget by Shelby I'll take it as you don't know what an earmark is....regardless of how a government contract smells.

That's a bunch of semantic Bullshit.

If you take one extra step to divert federal funds to your home state, then it's not an earmark???

You truly are a stone imbecile.

This is not diverting anything to anyone, who didn't earn it through a legitimate military procurement bidding process.

 

[paperview]

Do my eyes deceive me? So called Republicans or Libertarians defending earmarks?

Show us the earmark! Where is the line item in the budget inserted by Shelby?

One is right in the article linked earlier:

- An improvised explosive device testing lab for the FBI. From CongressDaily: "[Shelby] is frustrated that the Obama administration won't build" the center, which Shelby earmarked $45 million for in 2008. The center is due to be based "at the Army's Redstone Arsenal."

This, is stated by his spokesman is DIRECTLY part of the reason he is putting a blanket hold on all nominees. EARMARK.

 

[Vast LWC]

So, he can just appoint them to the position of Czar....errrr...ummm....I mean "special assistant", or make a recess appointment.

Wouldn't be the first time or first administration to do so.

Oh great, so instead of the Republican Senators actually DOING THEIR JOB, and getting people in on time, it's up to Obama to use a controversial method of appointing people, so he can be attacked later for "acting like a dictator", or "appointing more czars".

And this is what you're defending.

And then you call ME a "partisan hack" in the same thread!

ROFL.

 

[uscitizen]

It was a consortium bid. Most of the components would be built and all of the assembly would be done in America, by Northrop/Grumman and their contractors.

Well well well...what do we have here!!!!????



A Twist in the Boeing-Airbus Tanker Saga - BusinessWeek

You mean kinda like the Democrats now supporting Shelby's call?

If you take one extra step to divert federal funds to your home state, then it's not an earmark???

Or the hypocracisy of the right on earmarks and obstructionism?

 

[Vast LWC]

Do my eyes deceive me? So called Republicans or Libertarians defending earmarks?

Show us the earmark! Where is the line item in the budget inserted by Shelby?

One is right in the article linked earlier:

- An improvised explosive device testing lab for the FBI. From CongressDaily: "[Shelby] is frustrated that the Obama administration won't build" the center, which Shelby earmarked $45 million for in 2008. The center is due to be based "at the Army's Redstone Arsenal."

This, is stated by his spokesman is DIRECTLY part of the reason he is putting a blanket hold on all nominees. EARMARK.

Holy crap! That makes it even worse.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

With the Democrats in control, that bodes well for Boeing, since most of its factories and employment hubs are concentrated in blue states such as Illinois, Connecticut, and Washington.

Already some Democrats, such as Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Representative John Murtha (D-Pa.), have pressed the Pentagon to pick Boeing, since the World Trade Organization issued a preliminary ruling in mid-September that European governments had given improper subsidies to Airbus.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Do my eyes deceive me? So called Republicans or Libertarians defending earmarks?

Show us the earmark! Where is the line item in the budget inserted by Shelby?

One is right in the article linked earlier:

- An improvised explosive device testing lab for the FBI. From CongressDaily: "[Shelby] is frustrated that the Obama administration won't build" the center, which Shelby earmarked $45 million for in 2008. The center is due to be based "at the Army's Redstone Arsenal."

This, is stated by his spokesman is DIRECTLY part of the reason he is putting a blanket hold on all nominees. EARMARK.

Try to keep up dumb ass....what does this have to do with Airbus and the tanker contract? You forgot what your own thread was about!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

[Oddball]

yadayaddayaddablahblahblahmaumaumaumau

You are hereby bopped.

 

[Vast LWC]

You truly are a stone imbecile.

This is not diverting anything to anyone, who didn't earn it through a legitimate military procurement bidding process.

And the majority of the Senate decided that it wasn't a legitimate process, but that there were unresolved questions dealing with European subsidization and foreign contract ownership.

What's your point? Contracts have never been cancelled before due to questions about the contract holder?

Can you say ACORN?

 

[paperview]

Show us the earmark! Where is the line item in the budget inserted by Shelby?

One is right in the article linked earlier:

- An improvised explosive device testing lab for the FBI. From CongressDaily: "[Shelby] is frustrated that the Obama administration won't build" the center, which Shelby earmarked $45 million for in 2008. The center is due to be based "at the Army's Redstone Arsenal."

This, is stated by his spokesman is DIRECTLY part of the reason he is putting a blanket hold on all nominees. EARMARK.

Try to keep up dumb ass....what does this have to do with Airbus and the tanker contract? You forgot what your own thread was about!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

You call ME the dumbass when the damn fucking topic is Shelbly's reasons for placing the blanket hold.

HE SPECIFICALLY STATED TWO REASONS.

ONE was the tanker, the other was his pet center he wants 45 million for WHICH HE EARMARKED FOR.

You ask to be shown earmarks from him, we show it, and then you make a personal insult when shown it.

Who's the dumbass?