Today there was a letter in the paper urging a vote for Republicans. Not so unusual, except this one repeated the talking points that are used by the impeachment wing of the tea party. First that Obama has appointed all of these czars to run agencies that were neither elected or confirmed by the Senate. OK, I'm good with that no accountability of the President to other co-equal branch of government. I'm sure that no other President, especially a Republican, would have done such a terrible deed. When you look into it every President has appointed people to head up special projects, commissions, or offices. OK, Obama has a lot, 20, how does that compare to say W? Bush had 21, I know you are thinking that is more than 20 which is true except in tea party world.
Second the letter writer pointed out that Obama has appointed 2 supreme court justices of dubious qualifications and agendas. Really! And Justices Roberts and Alito don't have the same characteristics. The difference is that Roberts and Alito have acted on their agenda with their precedent overturning decisions. Granted they had help from other agenda driven Justices Scalia and Thomas (the judge who rarely asks a question, qualified?). The Supreme Court is another government organization that is broken but don't blame the Democrats. After Bork, both sides have been agenda driven. The partisans have looked to the court to pass their legislative agenda rather than replace their representatives to get it done legislatively as intended in the Constitution.
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