We know already that they're trying to making it much harder for Democrat voters to vote for Democrat candidates, via changing voter laws, allowing legislatures to decide elections that they don't like the results of, cementing safe candidates in gerrymandered districts ... plus we know all the nasty tricks that Senator Mitch McConnell has played ... but he's not the only one.
Because, they also want to make it harder for the government to govern.
A year into his term, only 41 percent of the president’s nominees for Senate-confirmed posts have been approved, a new analysis finds, the worst rate in decades.
“You’re seeing a broken system breaking down even further, and in an election year it’s not going to get better,” said Max Stier, the Partnership’s chief executive. “We need a political Geneva Convention, to distinguish between legitimate partisan differences and the destruction of our core government infrastructure.”
“The truth is that some Republicans’ unprecedented obstructionism is straining the system to the breaking point,” Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said on the Senate floor last month, adding that the situation was forcing the president to operate without critical national security officials in place, “leaving our nation weakened.”
Now, let me be clear, there may be a few Democrats slowing down a couple of nominees (but with a Democratic administration, probably not many.)
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