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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (681075)4/29/2005 11:54:27 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"only 50% of President Bus's Circuit Court nominees have had votes."

Really?

Well, Bush is only 100 days into his second term.


That is four years and 100 days.

f you compare the first Bush term to the first Clinton term (a favorable comparision for you, I believe, because Clinton had *even fewer* nominees confirmed in his second term), I believe the statistics are nearly identical

Clinton was slow at getting his first nominees for every positition. Two years into his term, many of his White House nominees still had not allowed the FBI to complete their background investigations. Many of his judicial nominees in his first term were made in the last 100 days. President Bush had his nominees vetted and submitted much sooner. This is not a comparison you want to make. It is one of Clinton's incompetence, and President Bush's competence. Unequal inputs generally result in unequal results.

Look at the average number of days till a confirmation vote. President Bush's nominees suffered a much longer delay.
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