Why?
Republicans thought it was OK when Carter was President.
"Senate Republicans have begun an organized campaign to use various parliamentary strategems, from committee boycotts to filibusters, to ''slow down or completely stop'' Presidential appointments that could outlast the Carter Administration.
The action was taken last month by the 41-member Senate Republican Caucus, which appointed a three-member committee to sift 155 pending Presidential nominations and weed out those whose terms would overlap that of a new President.
The primary targets include 13 judicial nominees as well as nominees to vacancies on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission and the Legal Services Corporation, among other agencies. Not affected are nominations to advisory boards and those who serve at the pleasure of the President without any fixed term.
Republicans contend that they are merely upholding a Senate tradition in preventing President Carter from making election-year appointments to positions that a Republican President could be able to fill."
EPUBLICANS FIGHT CARTER NOMINEES
14 September 1980
The New York Times
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/01/why_seek_consen.htmlWith the good certainty of having a Democrat as President by next year, I say it's time we shut down the process of Judicial and maybe even other appointments.
Call your Senators, tell them to shut down the process of appointments.