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Yesterday I put up the new poll here to determine our readers’ choice of a replacement for Harry Reid, the Nevada Leg Hound.  The options were gathered here and at BuzzFlash.  I got it up just in time, because yesterday, Leg Hound Harry humped Republican legs in his most cowardly move to date.

…Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided he’d hold multiple weekly pro-forma Senate sessions during the election-season recess, which will prevent Obama from legally recess appointing his stalled nominees. The reason, according to top Democratic and Republican aides has nothing to do with recess appointments per se, but rather with protecting the rest of Obama’s executive and judicial nominees.

All presidential nominees expire when Congress adjourns for recess, unless the entire Senate agrees they can be carried over to the next session. Obama’s had to renominate several of his picks after recent recesses because of this obscure rule, and with Republicans, and even some Democrats, objecting to so much these days, Reid’s decision will allow all of Obama’s nominees to remain valid when the Senate returns in November… [emphasis added]

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A far better tactic would be to allow Obama’s nominees to expire, change the Senate rules, outlawing the filibuster and personal holds as allowed in the first session ion January, and confirming them all.  In the meantime, Obama could have made mass recess appointments.  Now, although they let a few of the non controversial nominees through, Republicans will go back to blocking the nominees, and they will expire after the lame duck session anyway.

Keith Olbermann was just as angry as I am in his interview with Ezra Klein.

Reid must be replaced!

On our Teabaggers poll, here are the results.

And here are your comments.

From SoINeedAName on September 16, 2010 at 2:31 pm. 

 

It’s only good: Either the American public will wake-up and do the right thing and show the Teapublicans the door – or if certifiable Teahadist hateriots get elected I’ll know to start checking visa requirements on becoming an expat. (I’ll give it to the 2012 elections, but my Passport is always kept current.)

 

From Annette on September 16, 2010 at 7:02 am. 

 

With the mood of this country, it is really hard to say if they will hurt or help. Most of them seem so over the top to me and others, but that seems to be what the people of the right want. I don’t think we will know until after the General Election.

I would think just these candidates would mobilize the left… but am not sure they are even paying attention.

 

From TWM on September 16, 2010 at 6:23 am. 

 

If the left sits this one out it does not matter one whit who they nominate, even a corporation, they will win.

 

From Lisa G. in reply to TWM on September 22, 2010 at 8:10 am. 

 

I’m with you on that, TWM.

I voted good, because they define who the Republicans are, but usually won’t admit.

If you’re new here, the new poll is at the top of the right sidebar.

Here are the results of the Obama’s Iraq Speech poll:

And here is Lisa’s comment:

I disagreed with his term "disarm a state" comment; THAT was a SOVEREIGN state. We had no business being there. And I told that to many people, including my Republican father, to no avail – he watches Faux News. And if we’re "out" of Iraq how come we still have 50K soldiers there? He mentioned "support Troops" but he didn’t mention how many of them are still over there with flak jackets on everyday.

Him praising the troops was excellent and well worth mentioning the GI bill; this is the price we pay for war. Also, saying that "Americans who agreed and disagreed with the government on this war were equally patriotic". That’s gonna piss off the teabbaggers.

Most of you either liked or loved it.  I disagreed and voted ‘Disliked it’.  Like Lisa, I objected to his statement that the purpose of the war was to disarm a state.  Bush and the Republicans had two purposes.  First was to seize control of the oil.  Second was to secure permanent bases in the Persian Gulf, because  the Saudis pushed us out of our bases in their country.  I also objected to his pandering to Bush, lying about Bush’s patriotism and support for the troops.  Bush was a ChickenHawk, war criminal, not a patriot, who threw our troops under the bus at every opportunity.  For Obama to praise Bush, when failure to prosecute Bush violates US law, was wrong.

Enjoy the new poll, now up.