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Tyrone Slothrop
The Senate gets to make its own rules. This is countermajoritarian. What's odd is the number of Republicans who never saw a problem with this until a few Bush appointees ran into trouble.
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Call me crazy, but when did a Republican minority ever filibuster the nominee of Democrat POTUS?
Seriously, give me a single example,
Abe Fortas in '68 was a 4 day talkathon - and was essentially irrelevant as he would never have received 51 votes in the first place.
Here, the Dems are blocking the vote only because they know they'll lose.
