I certainly hope his loved ones are not subject to the same abuse Mr. Bond is so willing to inflict upon our civil government!

Maybe we should ask Kit if he's stopped beating his wife yet! -Kevo

Martha Johnson may be qualified to do the job, but what do liberals have against due diligence?

Holds are a 'tradition' of the gentleman millionaire's club. Reid knows this as he illustrated by ignoring a hold fellow Democrat Chris Dodd placed on the FISA bill and bringing it to the floor anyway.

So who should we be mad at, Bond or Reid?

I'll save you the trouble: Sessons and Bunning voted Nay.

I know one thing for sure, Mr. Kitt Bond is not to be trusted...ever.

It's really Reid's fault for honoring the "hold". This is something that can be eliminated today.

how hard is it to write an ad to run Missouri that a critical administrator supported by 94% of the Senate was held up for nearly a year because Kit Bond a commitment for government to do more deficit spending of your tax dollars on a pet project?

Here is a strategy, not based in reality, but just for fun: Have the President schedule a one-hour prime time address to the nation every evening, Monday thru Friday, say from 7:00-8:00pm est. At the appointed hour, notify the networks that he has been delayed, but is on the way and is expected within 20 minutes or so. Have various Dem spokespeople available for interviews to fill the air time. At about 7:30 the President makes an appearance, delivers a brief statement and takes a few questions from the assembled media giants. He then excuses himself and leaves the platform. Do this for a couple of weeks and watch what the media does to respond. I have no idea what might happen, but it sure would screw up Prime Time TV. The President might even get in a few zingers to the assembled media pundits and Republicans and show the nation who tune in for the Reality shows what the reality is.
Probably crazy, but one has to do something to cause a disturbance.
peace,
st john

Think La Palin would get upset if I called Senator Bond's hold retarded?

another opportunity to plug the fine article by Lawrence Lessig in The Nation this week...and accessible on the website.

Why honor the holds at all? I just don't get this. Filibusters are a senate rule. There is a reason to follow them. Holds are not?

actually looked like the vote was 96 to 0...with 4 senators not voting

Actually, the vote looks like it was 96-0, with 4 'not voting', with even Bond voting Yea

The Senate is broke.

It doesn't need to be fixed. It needs to be abolished. It is not representative and it is full of rules that make that lack of fairness even worse.

It needs to go.

Once a nominee is approved by a committee, there should be a vote scheduled 30 days later. I think 30 days should be sufficient time for other Senators (non-committee members) to obtain any other information they think they need from the nominee, and get a response. Holds should be for that purpose only. Holds should be banned that are unrelated to determining a nominee's qualifications.

Wonder how they are going to justify that in their next job.

Yes sir I took 9 months to approve a highly qualified new hire with extensive experience because my ego and feelings were more important. It was a very hard 9 months and I could not function properly unless I was the center of attention.

Yes sir I took 9 months to handle my responsibility because my ego and emotions were my top priority. Well I just had to throw a temper tantrum that lasted 9 months.

LOL! Yeah I'd want a republican running my business into the ground in heart beat.

So, the 4 senators who didn't vote (the sulks? or really good reasons?): Bennet (UT), Coburn (OK), Isakson (GA) and Hutchinson (TX). Kitty-kitty Bond must have gotten his federal building as requested, because he voted yes.

And the new Senator from MA didn't get a chance to test his prowess with the Senate voting system; maybe another day...

On MSNBC Matthews is talking about the possibility of the democrats losing both houses in Nov.
Of course they seem to think the teabagger influence is very important.
Unless the democratic voters get out and get organized I think we are in trouble.
Do we have any grassroots organizers?

Was that an EARMARK Kitt Bond wanted?

"Washington" didn't have a hold on this nominee or other nominees. "Washington" is not obstructing everything. I don't get why democrats keep on saying it's "Washington's" fault when all I see are republicans obstructing everything in sight.

Mightcan has it exactly right. This is Reid's fault for upholding the most unreasonable of holds from the opposition party. What makes this particularly egregious is that he won't honor holds from members of his own party. Replace Reid with a real Democrat, and a strong Democrat.

And why haven't the dems been hammering this point? The minority favors obstruction, fine, but to actually obstruct the ability of a president to fill posts within the executive without good cause for nearly a year is pretty obviously extremisim.

But the dems hardly make a peep.

WTF are these issues so deeply buried into the nation's subconscious? Because noone's making a big deal out of it.

The White House wants an apology, after the fact. Wow, that'll really changes things (not).

For all the incredible bullshit the GOP pulls, there's a Democratic failure to respond that enables it all. Very depressing.

I seem to remember George W. Bush getting out there and demanding that his picks be given an up or down vote. Have I missed Obama doing the same?

Probably Reid want his own gsa schedule approved. Totally childish and irresponsible. Republicans are all incompetent, they should all go away.