GOP Must Block Maria del Carmen Aponte from Becoming Ambassador to El Salvador
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 11th at 10:26 PM |
What is worse than an Obama radical czar? An ambassador to a sensitive South American country that had an affair with a Cuban spy. Last August, stymied by Jim DeMint’s Senate hold, Obama used a recess appointment to name Maria del Carmen Aponte ambassador to El Salvador. She was originally selected as ambassador to the Domincan Republic during the Clinton administration, but she withdrew her | Read More »
Senate Wants to Punt Constitutional Duty to Advise and Consent
By: hogan (Diary) | April 3rd at 09:46 PM |
Does anyone in Washington understand the concept of reading your job description and then doing your job? Apparently the esteemed members of the U.S. Senate – including both Republican and Democrat leadership – do not. You see, they would rather have time to meddle further in the lives of Americans than in performing their constitutionally prescribed duty to advise and consent to Presidential nominees. As | Read More »
Obama Nominee Should Be Fired Not Promoted
By: hogan (Diary) | May 27th at 08:26 AM |
President Obama has nominated to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals a sitting District Judge – Robert Chatigny – who should not be promoted, but instead fired for extremely bad judgment, a poor judicial temperament and a predilection for allowing sexual deviants to leave prison early to walk among us again. How’s that for the President’s defining and ill conceived standard of “empathy?” Article III, | Read More »