57-40. Sweet!
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Sunstein Filibuster Broken
Posted on September 9, 2009 by David
The Senate voted 65-35 today for cloture on the Sunstein appointment. That means an up or down vote on his appointment will likely happen later this week. A little more here. The wingnut jamboree continues, however, as Glenn Beck has thrown his formidable lack of sense or decorum into the fray. More on this as it develops.
–David Cassuto
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Sunstein Update — No Recess for the Nutjobs
Posted on September 5, 2009 by David
The congressional recess hasn’t stopped the wingnutathon against Cass Sunstein’s nomination to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. This opinion piece looks to rally all right-thinking Americans against radical ideas like: “[T]he law should impose further regulation on hunting, scientific experiments, entertainment, and (above all) farming to ensure against unnecessary animal suffering.” Apparently, the fact that Sunstein indited such sacrilege renders him unfit to clean the toilets of the OIRA, much less head up the office. “In Sunstein’s dangerously detached worldview, money-hungry trial lawyers could sue on behalf of every Polled Hereford in the land. And , everyone knows, they would. Clarabelle Cow could sue Ronald McDonald.”
Part of me remains hopeful that inanities such as these will galvanize public opinion behind Sunstein and give him a mandate to actually do something about the horrid state of regulatory affairs. Of course, part of me also still believes in the Easter Bunny.
–David Cassuto
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