President Obama strongly criticized Senate Republicans for holding his Attorney General nominee “hostage” while waiting for Democrats to stop filibustering important human trafficking prevention legislation.
“You don’t hold attorney general nominees hostage for other issues,” Obama told The Huffington Post in an interview yesterday. “This is our top law enforcement office. Nobody denies that she’s well-qualified. We need to go ahead and get her done.”
Some Democrats, including Sen. Dick Durbin, have suggested that Republicans are blocking Lynch because of her race. Obama did not follow suit.
“I don’t know about that,” the president said, according to the Huffington Post when asked about the racial angle.
“What I do know is that she is eminently qualified. Nobody denies it,” Obama said. “Even the Republicans acknowledge she’s been a great prosecutor. She has prosecuted terrorists in New York, she has gone after organized crime, she’s gone after public corruption. Her integrity is unimpeachable.”
Enter John McCain.
McCain said that no Republican U.S. Senator should vote for the confirmation of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as President Barack Obama’s Attorney General, even though Graham, Flake, Collins, and Hatch all said they plan to. McCain said:
Loretta Lynch has said that the President’s unconstitutional executive orders are ‘reasonable.’ Then if that is the case, no Republican should vote for her confirmation, because she is going to implement what the President himself said 22 times would be unconstitutional actions.
So Graham, Flake, Collins, and Hatch want to give Obama a rubber stamp as his Attorney General.
Gee, that’s swell.
“You don’t hold attorney general nominees hostage for other issues,” Obama told The Huffington Post in an interview yesterday. “This is our top law enforcement office. Nobody denies that she’s well-qualified. We need to go ahead and get her done.”
Some Democrats, including Sen. Dick Durbin, have suggested that Republicans are blocking Lynch because of her race. Obama did not follow suit.
“I don’t know about that,” the president said, according to the Huffington Post when asked about the racial angle.
“What I do know is that she is eminently qualified. Nobody denies it,” Obama said. “Even the Republicans acknowledge she’s been a great prosecutor. She has prosecuted terrorists in New York, she has gone after organized crime, she’s gone after public corruption. Her integrity is unimpeachable.”
Enter John McCain.
McCain said that no Republican U.S. Senator should vote for the confirmation of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as President Barack Obama’s Attorney General, even though Graham, Flake, Collins, and Hatch all said they plan to. McCain said:
Loretta Lynch has said that the President’s unconstitutional executive orders are ‘reasonable.’ Then if that is the case, no Republican should vote for her confirmation, because she is going to implement what the President himself said 22 times would be unconstitutional actions.
So Graham, Flake, Collins, and Hatch want to give Obama a rubber stamp as his Attorney General.
Gee, that’s swell.