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From ABC News: "Bunning’s obstruction, however, continues on another front: Democrats say he has put a hold on all pending presidential nominations, effectively blocking “several dozen” of President Obama’s nominations. As you may recall, Senator Richard Shelby moved to block all nominations last month, but eventually relented in the face intense pressure from fellow Republicans." Relented in this case, meaning continuing as long as possible with this jackass behavior, until the dormant press finally stirred to life and began to report some stories mildly critical of the infantile behavior of Senate Republicans. Now, they have Bunning, a man who will not run for reelection, doing their dirty work. Does anyone on earth really believe he is doing this without the tacit approval of all of the rest of the Republican party? This is the way they work now. There is not a shred of honesty or decency left in any of them. They will continue doing whatever they can to advance the ...

Just in case you wondered , from David Waldman, at Daily Kos: "there have already been about as many cloture votes taken during this Congress as there were between World War I and the moon landing." I particularly commend this article and the congressional table to which it is linked, to the likes of the commenter at this site who claimed that there were no filibusters in all of 2009; this apparently because no one was up there talking 'till they fell asleep, like the Jimmy Stewart movie which is apparently this person's main source of knowledge of the filibuster process.