The Party Of Obstruction

You had the attempt to hold up Clinton's appointment. You have the attempt to hold up Geithner. Now you have the hold up of Lisa Jackson. A pretty clear pattern is starting to emerge.

The minority party certainly has the right to hold up appointments, but it doesn't make much sense to do it when the appointees are likely to secure their post regardless. I would be willing to bet that there will be much more like this from the GOP, but they will move to holding up legislation (as they did last session) with the game plan of making it look as if the Obama administration isn't doing anything or enough while hoping that the American public ignores the games going on behind the scenes. The sad thing is that they will probably succeed because the public does a bad job of paying attention and the media gives pretty weak coverage.