re: #100 HappyWarrior

Look, I get the need to make sure that candidates are qualified. That’s the advice and consent clause at work. Some nominees weren’t qualified - Miers being the most recent example. That lack of qualifications would have been exposed during hearings.

Voice votes, which was all it took in some instances, wouldn’t identify any issues.

But the GOP has now carried this to an extreme, and are threatening to ignore the constitution altogether - so-called strict constructionist Ted Cruz says the President shouldn’t nominate anyone at all - which is odd since it says that the President shall nominate under Art. 2, Sec. 2.

Cruz knows this, but doesn’t care. All his talk about Obama shredding the constitution is a smokescreen for GOP obstructionism (often by him personally).