Let's hop in the wayback machine for a quick trip to 2009, when President Obama was a newly minted leader and Republicans were just beginning their concerted efforts to delegitimize his presidency. It started with judges.
President Barack Obama should fill vacant spots on the federal bench with former President Bush’s judicial nominees to help avoid another huge fight over the judiciary, all 41 Senate Republicans said Monday.
In a letter to the White House, the Republican senators said Obama would “change the tone in Washington” if he were to renominate Bush nominees. […]
“Regretfully, if we are not consulted on, and approve of, a nominee from our states, the Republican Conference will be unable to support moving forward on that nominee,” the letter warns. “And we will act to preserve this principle and the rights of our colleagues if it is not.”
So there's some remarkable consistency in Senate Republicans, as far as this president is concerned. He couldn't pick his own judges in his first year in office, and he can't pick them in his final one. Let's see, that gives Obama a 6/8ths or 3/4ths presidency, which I guess is at least better than 3/5ths numerically, never mind the intent being the same.
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