Harry Reid's been playing political cock block in Washington. The Senate majority leader confirmed rumors and used 'pro forma' to stop President Bush's recess appointment of Dr. James Holsinger.
Holsinger, who hopes to be our nation's next Attorney General Surgeon Gneral, raised our eyebrows with his United Method-backed paper, “Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality". In that piece of dubious doctoring, Holsinger used plumber slang to prove the "logical complementarity of the human sexes". The Democrats were not pleased by this blue-color comparison. Holsinger later claimed to have rethought the matter, saying that the 1991 paper “doesn’t represent where I am todayâ€.
Reid went ape shit when he heard Bush planned to sneakily appoint Holsinger during the mammoth two-week Thanksgiving recess. He's quick to point out that the administration left him no option than to block Bush's action:
I indicated I would be willing to confirm various appointments if the administration would agree to move on Democratic appointments. They would not make that commitment. As a result, I am keeping the Senate in pro forma [session] to prevent recess appointments until we get this process on track.
The pro forma session technically keeps Senate in session, even though nothing will get done. Sort of sounds like things are already on track.
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AB: I could be wrong, but don't you mean Surgeon General, not Attorney General??
It's about time the Dems showed a little assertiveness. Sure their majority is wafer-thin, but there's still some stuff they can do…like this!
Yeah, Surgeon General.
Reid's great. This guy's a Mormon, but he has not shied away from standing up for GLB's or the left-most democratic issues. And he knows how to play hard ball.
You were right, WWH! Thanks a lot. We've got all these "Generals" marching around, it's hard to keep them straight!
AB
Holy crapola! Did Harry Reid just find his balls? Awesome! This guy shouldn't even be confirmed for dogcatcher, much less Surgeon General.
Democrats discover their balls, film at 11
FINALLY, Now give those rat bastards exactly what they've dished out since 1994.
Finally! Congress is doing its job and fighting that psycho in the white house
The two parties have often voted together in bipartisan efforts to invade Iraq, to fund the war, to extend it to Iran, to divide Iraq and steal its oil, to bust unions with NAFTA and voted together in huge majorities to impose bigot laws like DOMA and DADT. Their war funds supply the ammo used by the jihadist hunter killer squads to murder GLBT folk every day in Iraq.
More likely Reid’s just afraid that Dianne Feinstein and the dozen or so other Democrat Senators who joined their Republican cousins to vote for gaybashing Bush nominees for circuit court judge and Attorney General last week would do this same with the Bush nominee for Surgeon General and further expose the Democrats as frauds.
I’m glad he did it but what he and Pelosi should do is turn off the spigot that pours out Bush’s bigotry, war and union busting. A new poll, not commissioned by HRC and therefore trustworthy, shows that 53% think Bush committed impeachable offenses. But Reid and Pelosi pigheadedly maintain that impeachment is ‘off the table’. Too bad for us and too bad for the Iraqis.
Are you fucking kidding me? The Dems could have done this ridiculous procedural "pro forma" thing in the past and avoided those other horrible appointments? Why the HELL didn't they do it then?