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> 100% of the votes against confirmation were Republican And so no Democrat voted against her? Does a party line split ever look good regardless of how it bre
by timewizard 1y ago
> 100% of the votes against confirmation were Republican
And so no Democrat voted against her? Does a party line split ever look good regardless of how it breaks?
> Fewer than half the R Senators voted to confirm her.
Anti-trust issues have become more popular lately. Senators come and go. Like I said she had a rocky start.
> Obama nominee Edith Ramirez, was confirmed unanimously
And she did nothing. Do you see the connection between those two facts? I mean it's not like there was a bunch of consumer problems during Obama's term or anything. :|
> let the different parties take responsibility and/or credit for their decisions.
Party politics are just exceptionally dumb. They don't even reasonably reflect how decisions are actually made on the hill. It devolves into a weird left vs. right fight between citizens while the actual meaningful policies and civil servants are entirely ignored. I don't sense a way to improve anything by doing this.
- watwut 1y agoThe most damaging partisan politics is the one where we insist on making Republicans look better then they are, again and again. That is how they became the party fully in support of Trumps policies.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoI didn't make it a left vs right thing. The people who nominate, confirm, and force out FTC chairs did. It just so happens that all the people who pushed against this particular FTC chair are on one side of the aisle. That wasn't up to me! > I don't sense a way to improve anything by doing this. In my experience, step 1 of solving a problem is a sober assessment of the facts. We elect people and they make decisions. I'm pointing out what decisions they made.