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applegrove

(118,761 posts) Wed Mar 25, 2015, 09:08 PM Mar 2015

Obama On Loretta Lynch: 'You Don't Hold Attorney General Nominees Hostage'

Obama On Loretta Lynch: 'You Don't Hold Attorney General Nominees Hostage'

by Amanda Terkel at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/obama-loretta-lynch_n_6905422.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D631193&m=true

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama chastised Senate Republicans on Friday for refusing to confirm his attorney general nominee, saying it's inexcusable to hold Loretta Lynch "hostage" as a bargaining chip for separate legislation.

"You don't hold attorney general nominees hostage for other issues," Obama told The Huffington Post's Sam Stein in a sit-down interview. "This is our top law enforcement office. Nobody denies that she's well-qualified. We need to go ahead and get her done."

Lynch's nomination has been languishing for more than 130 days. This week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) threw up another roadblock, warning that she wouldn't get a vote until his chamber passes human trafficking legislation. Democrats object to anti-abortion language in the bill.

The president's comments were essentially a call to arms to Senate Democrats to stand firm rather than surrender to the hostage-takers, i.e., Senate Republicans, on the trafficking bill.

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Obama On Loretta Lynch: 'You Don't Hold Attorney General Nominees Hostage' (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2015 OP

F* a bunch of republiCON madokie Mar 2015 #1

I still say the GOP don't like black attorney generals because the position, held by someone black, applegrove Mar 2015 #2

Another reason why she should have been approved BEFORE the old senate left town SoCalDem Mar 2015 #3

The GOP hates government and so are bad at governing Gothmog Mar 2015 #4

unfortunately Mr. President, these assholes do just that. spanone Mar 2015 #5

Yup. This is just political theater. bigwillq Mar 2015 #6

madokie

(51,076 posts)

1. F* a bunch of republiCON

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 09:11 PM

Mar 2015

asshole jackass mo'fos

applegrove

(118,761 posts)

2. I still say the GOP don't like black attorney generals because the position, held by someone black,

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 09:16 PM

Mar 2015

might teach some in the base not to hate black people. It is a position of trust. The attorney general keeps Americans safe. The GOP want to protect the goose that lays the golden egg, the biggest wedge issue: the Southern Strategy. What with Obama and Erik Holder it has been a nonstop slurfest. A female african american attorney general might be harder to destroy in the eyes of their base and easier to connect to. And what if some in the base connected with some great person tough on crime? That would be a nightmare for the GOP. Would they do anything to protect their best political strategy? Of course. I don't think it is racism at the top of the GOP so much as so much powerlust and low taxes that they have lost all morals if they ever had any. Though I am sure most are racist. But the opportunity to keep interconnectedness from happening between their followers and other Americans is more cult like.