re: #83 Blind Frog Belly White

I don’t agree. If that were so, ANY Senate would have the authority to deny ANY nominations to ANY President.

That’s exactly right. They do have that authority, and have always had it. Before this crop of Republicans, pretty much nobody was stupid enough to actually go there.

The constitution actually doesn’t say very much, and there is certainly nothing in there that forbids the Senate from having fart noise express its lack of consent to a presidential nominee.