When it comes to lieing, obama seems not to be able to help himself

BALTIMORE, Maryland November 21, 2013 - obama came out and made a statement after the ever-slimy Harry Reid invoked the so-called nuclear option in the United States Senate, and by a straight party vote of 52-48 changed the number of votes necessary to confirm judicial nominees.  Before today, a nominee needed 60 votes in the Senate to be approved.  Now, just 51 are necessary.  According to several sources, the vote only applies to non-Supreme Court nominees and does not apply to legislation.  Typical of obama, this statement of his was composed of one bald-faced lie after another.  He said that the failure of the Republicans to approve his judicial nominees had had an impact on his ability to address the ridiculously high unemployment figures.  To me, it is just stunning that somebody could say something like that with a straight face.  But apparently obama has had so much practice that spewing forth lies is a natural trait of someone like him who lives and breathes super far left dogma. But even for this person, it was appalling. There are hundeds of things that obama could do to have an immediate and lasting impact on the high unemployment figures, and he isn't interested in any of them.  The purpose of requiring 60 votes to confirm judicial nominees is to prevent one party or the other from appointing hardline idealogues to judicial posts.  No one in the history of the United States has been more guilty of appointing people with absolute fringe political views than obama. No one is even close.  What was the name of the one dude who believed Bush was in on 9/11?  And obama knowingly appointed him to a cabinet-level position.  Sen Alexander of Tennessee recited facts which he obtained from the Senate's official historian that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this Congress has been no worse than any other in approving judicial nominees. Sadly, over 200 of obama's far left nominees have been approved. Two, count them, two have been rejected.  But as obama attempted to jam the D.C. Court of Appeals with far left nominees who would then be in a position to affirm the 100 tons of regulations that his far left bureaucracy has churned out, the 48 (out of 100) Senators that are Republican tried to put the brakes on, using the exact same tool that Democrats used to do the exact same thing to President Bush's nominees.  And who can forget that it was the Democrats who started the entire precedent of blocking judicial nominees when they blocked President Bush Sr.'s nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.  Bork was unanimously approved by every Bar Association Congress consulted but Liberals blocked the nomination of Bork solely because of his political views.  For hundreds of years - the rule changed today by the Dems has stood since the 1700's and is believed to have been authored by Thomas Jefferson - the rule has been tolerated by the majority party because they knew that when the political winds changed and the majority slid into the minority, they would have it to rely on if the other party nominated somebody too far out on the fringe.  No one anticipated the day when a candidate like obama, with views so far out on the fringe they make the founding fathers turnover in their graves, actually came to power and every one of his nominees seem like they were sent here by Castro himself.  It is an evil wind that blows through Congress today.  Sometime in the future, maybe sometime sooner than we think, someone on the far far right will come to power with a similar small majority in the Senate.  And that far right president might begin putting one far right judge after another up for confirmation.  What will the Dems say then?  If they are like obama and reid, they will merely lie.  What in the name of the Lord has happened to our party?