Bush pushes Senate to OK 180 nominees

This MSNBC story really shows the complete gridlock that has taken place between an arrogant Bush White House, and the Democratic Congress. From MSNBC:

WASHINGTON - President Bush vented frustration anew Saturday over the Senate's failure to vote on more than 180 of his nominations, including more than two dozen to the federal bench.

"Some have been waiting for more than a year," said Bush, who invited many of the nominees to the White House for an event on Thursday. "As a result, careers have been put on hold, families have been placed in limbo and our government has been deprived of the service of these fine nominees."

Democrats counter that Bush is equally responsible for the stalemate between the White House and Capitol Hill over presidential nominees to lead government agencies, preside over U.S. courts and serve on commissions. They say that in some cases, Bush has nominated people who have no chance of being approved by a Democratic-led Congress.

The Democrats in Congress, and the Senate, should not approve of any Bush-appointed nomination. It is now February 2008. Bush will be gone in less than 10 months. President Bush has shown himself to be a right-wing extremist, running a disaster of a right-wing administration that has screwed everything it has touched. The last thing we would need is for this incompetent of a president to continue stacking these government positions with his ideologues. These positions should remain unfilled until the next president takes office.