Friday, April 24, 2015

The political fight is on a personal level


On November 18, 2013 President Obama[1] was disappointed about the non-election of three nominations to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal, obviously the second highest Court in the Country. Even the favorable voices of Chief Justice John Roberts and the Judicial Conference of the United States, who are convinced to fill these vacancies, the elections have been blocked by Senate Republicans.

President Obama comments additionally that four of his five nominations have been obstructed while six nominations of his predecessor have been confirmed. It be his constitutional duty to nominate qualified personalities to a fully-functioning judiciary, he wrote.

What is the statement of Norm Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute? „If Obama is for it, we’re against it even it’s good for the country.”[2] That is the reason of the actual gridlock the political battle has been transformed to a personal matter. Political arguments do not convince anymore, everything is personal and used on a personal level.

Yesterday Loretta Lynch has been confirmed as Attorney General of the U.S. – after a long period of ... in the U.S. Senate.



[1] The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, November 18, 2013
[2] Tamara Lytle, “What’s Wrong with Washington,” AARP Bulletin, December 2011, 16-18.

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