Isn't that just great-- "Turtleman" McConnell plans to invoke a Senate rule that doesn't even exist! Good going, you so-n-so.....

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COMMENTS: 
*  Don't know which worse the House Speaker who follows the nonexistant Hastert rule, according to the old pedophile himself and thus is to incompetent to pass meaning legislation that doesn't die in the Senate or the Senate majority leader following the nonexistant Thurman rule out of sheer partisan malevolence. OK, I'll pick the turtle man just because he is so openly vile toward his would be one term President is our no. one priority statement at the beginning. Though they have both broken the system under their joint leadership. It went from disfunctional to nonfuntional.
*  McConnell and Boehner are only part of the total obstruction and revolution from the extreme right toward the federal government. They have refused to confirm hundreds of President Obama's appointees. They refuse to allow the FEC or Federal Election Commission to enforce election laws so they can cheat. The red states, thanks to their cohorts on ALEC and SCOTUS, are run on laws they wrote that help fossil fuel pollution, secret trade agreements and selling out America for USINC. They are all corrupt.
*  There needs to be a law requiring a vote on all nominees within a 120 day of nomination, and even shorter for critical nominations. No party or person should be able to hold up a nomination out of spite!
    *  I think this is the best response I have read all night. Will it happen? I doubt it, but I am glad there are some people who come up with good, reasonable ideas. After all, it is difficult to have a good court system when so their are so many judicial vacancies.
*  I'm sorry but it is NOT his job or any of congress to block anything. either you approve or you don;t.... But to play games with this country's future has got to come to a stop...
* So much for upholding the constitution......I think McConnell should be brought up on charges of TREASON or at the minimum impeached.
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Majority Leader McConnell Calls For Extraordinary Blockade Of Obama’s Judges And Justices
By Ian Millhiser, June 5, 2015

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicated in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday that no federal appeals court judges — or, for that matter, Supreme Court justices — will be confirmed in the coming year. In response to a question about judicial confirmations, McConnell told Hewitt that “so far, the only judges we’ve confirmed have been federal district judges that have been signed off on by Republican Senators” (district judges are the lowest rank of federal judges under Article III of the Constitution). When Hewitt followed up by asking if McConnell believes this pattern will continue for “the balance of the session,” the majority leader replied “I think that’s highly likely, yeah.”

The term “session” refers to a one-year period of congressional business.

If McConnell carries out his threat to confirm no appellate judges in the next year, that would be an extraordinary departure from prior practice. According to the Federal Judicial Center, the Senate confirmed six appeals court judges in President George W. Bush’s seventh year in office, despite the fact that the Senate was controlled by Democrats. Presidents Clinton and Reagan also spent their seventh year in office in a period of divided government when the opposite party controlled the Senate, and yet the Senate confirmed 7 appeals court judges during that part of the Clinton presidency and it confirmed 10 appeals court judges during the same period in the Reagan presidency.

This is not the first time McConnell has moved the goalposts on judicial confirmations. In 2012, for example, when President Obama was up for reelection, McConnell announced that he would attempt to block all appeals court confirmations under the so-called “Thurmond Rule.” The Republican leader claimed that this rule “holds that within six months of a presidential election, the opposition party can, and typically does, refuse to allow votes on circuit court judges.”

No such rule exists. Although the “Thurmond Rule” has, at times, been invoked to slow down confirmations in a presidential election year, prior Senate practice does not support McConnell’s claim that confirmations should simply halt. As we explained shortly after McConnell announced that he was invoking this so-called rule, “President Carter had 5 appeals judges confirmed between this day in 1980 and that year’s election, one of whom was future Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. President Reagan had 7 in his first term and 2 in his second. The first President Bush had 7. No appellate judges were confirmed in the lead up to the 1996 election, but one was confirmed at the end of President Clinton’s second term. The second President Bush had 3 confirmed during this period in 2004 and 2 in 2008.”
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