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Let’s Ask Kerry & Kennedy To Put A “Hold” On Mukasey

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Disgraceful as Schumer and Feinstein are, why are the media letting everyone else off the hook?

If Jesse Helms could place a hold on dozens of Clinton appointees, why aren’t reporters asking the Democratic presidential candidates et al. to put their money where their mouths are and place a hold on the nomination? And if there is some reason a hold is not allowed, why not ask them to filibuster?

While it is shameful that the media don’t even RAISE the possibility, perhaps we can force the issue. Ask your home-state senators and the presidential candidates who are senators if  they will fight this to the finish instead of putting out press releases and then sucking om Schumer’s money teat.

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  2. While it is shameful that the media don’t even RAISE the possibility,

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    It is the news media’s responsibility to report to us what the senators are actually doing.

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    It is not the news media’s job to suggest to the senators all of the stupid things that they could do.

    • I agree that reporters should not suggest to senators what they could do — that’s the job of editorial writers, columnists (and bloggers!).

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      But I believe it absolutely IS the responsibility to reporters to tell us not only what the senators are actually doing but also what they aren’t doing that they could be doing. Otherwise, politicians get a free pass to be hypocrites.

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      I spent about 15 years as a reporter covering politics and government, most of it as a staff writer for The Associated Press, which is about as strait-laced as a news organization can be, if only because its owners have widely varying politics. We were told that an important part of our job was to go beyond the mere stenography of reporting what the politician said and did to report what wasn’t being done as well.

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      I apologize for my in-artful phrasing in the original post; I hope you can agree that the public deserves to understand the options that their senators are ignoring while they issue press releases assuring us that they are shocked — shocked — to discover that torture has been countenanced in their establishment.

      • Are we really so uneducated that we don’t understand the processes of our government?
        Must the news media condescend to presenting a laundry list of options/suggestions (even such foolish ones)?
        If they present some options but not others, is that not advocacy?

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        Some lesser lights of the chattering class (li’l chrissy matthews, obermin, et al.) will bray their endorsement of some of the more hairbrained tactics – but they play to the cheap seats, and aren’t taken seriously anyway.
        Does the MSM really want to throw down with that ilk?

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        Even the most supercilious pols understand the self-inflicted damage that can result from starting a tit-for-tat war of immature, underhanded, obstructionist parliamentary maneuvers – especially over something as utterly inane as trying to block a well qualified nominee who was recommended by a Democrat in the first place.

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