I wish there was something to do about a Congress that refused to do its fucking job, and refused to show up for work much of the time. All they seem to want to do is shake down corporate lobbyists.

I would so love to be able to dock their paychecks.

In other words, what does Obama have to lose??? They did it to themselves. If Obama knows (and he does by now I hope) that no nominee will ever be approved as long as he's President, they've paved the way for him. If they don't like it they have no one to blame but themselves.

faces re-election. I blame the knuckle-dragging idiots who vote against their own interest out of ignorance or because they only tune in to the rightwing media propaganda machine. I also blame the millions who don't bother to vote at all. if we had an informed, engaged electorate, we wouldn't have these obstructionist assholes collecting a big paycheck for doing nothing.

And how these voters cannot see through the bull shit the GOP ads spew is another mystery to me.
It must be a peer pressure psychosis.

to me. I won't say what I know though, here. Too many good, decent americans would take umbrage.

these jackasses are what they are, and it is pretty damn clear.

You really can't blame them, to be honest, because they are who they are in get elected, and act like jackasses and get re-elected.

The people of this country either can't be bothered to actually vote OR to take their vote seriously.

Kick Cruz the Canuck out of the country.

Just going to say the same thing. Not only is he an idiot, he even looks scary!

However Cruz looks a ton older then 43 years old. It is shocking sometimes.

Wow, there's an original idea. They only started doing that in 2009, before Cruz even was in the Senate.

simply pass a new immigration law that they like. They could at least propose one.

Ted Cruz does not seem to understand how our government is supposed to work.

shoot down someone else's idea and obstruct anthing than to come up with your own original plan.

Their voters and supporters, some of those who vote for them and support them the most, also rely the most on illegal immigrants as employees, the waiters and waitresses in their inexpensive restaurants and as day workers for small jobs. Here in California, illegal immigrants work in our fields, care for the children of the prosperous, do the gardening for the better-off, and clean the houses of the rich. Nobody likes the fact that there are so many illegal immigrants -- neither those who come in illegally nor those who dislike those who come in illegally. Our immigration courts are overwhelmed.

But actually admitting that our immigration system is not working, that we are exploiting the immigrants, that our immigration laws make it so that the educated and prosperous can apply for legal immigration while the poor would-be immigrants whose work and talent need just as much as we need the educated and prosperous cannot meet the tests that our immigration laws require them to meet and therefore cannot enter is impossible for Republicans.

Republicans get voters by feeding the beasts of racial and ethnic and religious prejudice. Republicans appeal to the sanctimonious hatred for "the other."

Thus, the Republicans are in a bind when it comes to passing immigration laws. We need to revise those laws, but if the Republicans vote for new laws that deal with the problems in our current laws, they risk losing a lot of voters.

Now the ball is in the Republican court. They have the power to pass a new immigration law. They have a choice: leave Obama's order in place, leave the law as it is with all its problems including their own criticisms about how it isn't working -- or pass a law of that they author.

Obama's executive order is the most brilliant move on this issue that I can imagine.

So now, its' up to the Republicans. Can they pass a law that will please all their constituencies or do they risk seriously offending some of the constituencies that their hatchet men in the media have riled up against "those dirty," whatever the ethnicity or nationality or race?

This is getting fun to watch.

just digging their incapable-of-governing hole deeper.

when asked about it.

"well, that would differ from what they have done from day one, how?"

kick this little fuckhead in the ass.

Obama shoulda known.

it'd be something else even if TPCruz has to make it up.

Send him back to Canada!

with Iran or a 'secret' climate agreement with China or refuses to repeal the ACA."

I suspect republicans, particularly those who fancy themselves to be tea party favorites, will have an endless supply of 'red lines' for Obama. The bottom line: republicans are not approving Obama nominations.

The Irony!

Maybe this right wing hypocrite dolt and his fellow right wing do nothing Congressional hypocrites should go back to school and re-read the Constitution and to look in then look in there right wing mirror his right wing mirror of hate and fear and really look at how fortunate they really are, coming from a family that was given the opportunity to become naturalized citizens it really is amazing and it shows how much disdain they have for human beings.
And under the articles of Constitution they can only advise and consent they cannot make the rules up as they go

They're perfectly fine with him in his current residence. Would you want him back if you were Canadian?

Meh...

Thought that's been happening since day one of the Obama administrations.

From the typical Republican behavior of the last 6 effing years?

Disgusting. Revolting. Dirtbags.

Obama will just recess appoint these folks...