[TheRealThing]

This is all about making it easier for Obama to put unqualified political hacks into positions of power. Those political appointees will hire socialist civil "servants" who will be doing damage for decades. The real cost of electing people like Obama to the presidency is a sharp, long lasting decline in competency throughout the executive branch of government.

My only concern is judicial appointments. Obama has and will appoint solely those who see the US Constitution, or the dismantling of said constitution, as he sees it.

If you think Obama is dangerous now, let him get control of the federal courts. If he ever gets to replace one of the five swing to conservative justices with another Sotomayor or Kagan, it is all over. This would do more damage to the continuation of the Republic than Democrats getting control of the US House of Representatives.

Khrushchev's prophecy would come true. We would destroy ourselves from within. Republicans must do everything possible, popular or not, to block these Obama surrogates. Franklin told us that those who would trade freedom for security (translated today into handouts) deserve neither.

These two quotes just go to show how knowledgeable some of the posters on BGR really are. Citing his personal angst and aggravation with a system which has served America well for hundreds of years to properly vet government nominees, the president gave full throated support of Reid's making good on his threat.

Though Supreme Court Nominees must still pass that 60 vote threshold for confirmation, Harry Rex may have hit a little closer than I think he really wanted to. Nominees to fill posts on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals are critical to having a regulatory juggernaut and would require only the simple majority for confirmation.
"The (three) nominees are:
Patricia Ann Millett, a white woman who is an
a prominent appeals lawyer in Washington,
D.C., Cornelia Pillard, a white woman who is
currently a highly regarded law professor at
Georgetown University, and Robert Leon
Wilkins, an African American man who was
appointed to the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia in 2009. Judge Wilkins
successfully argued a milestone racial profiling
case (Wilkins v. Maryland) in 1994
(http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Robert_
Leon_Wilkins)."


Read why DC Circuit is second in power only to the SCOTUS.
http://www.naswdc.org/advocacy/dccircuitcourt.pdf