Ethics

Kyl Doubles Down on Nomination Hypocrisy

By Ed Brayton

Mike Lillis notes at the Washington Independent that Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) is not only being hypocritical about the possibility of filibustering Obama's judicial nominees, he's also being hypocritical about the amount of time necessary to get them confirmed. When Bush was in office, he was all about getting his nominees confirmed quickly and poo pooing the notion that such confirmations take any real length of time:

One might wonder why we would need more than just a couple of days of debate (the average of recent nominees is two to three days), especially since nothing new has been said for weeks. But, if the public has noticed anything during this process it is that senators value their right of unlimited debate.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).