I’m in San Antonio – and I noticed, too, the bluebonnets that are usually everywhere never made an appearance this year. I don’t remember seeing a single one. Weird.
The thermometer on my shaded patio read 100 degrees at 2:00 p.m. today. 45th day of 100 or 100+, I think. I’m having trouble keeping track.
Of course, any time I complain katymine or someone else in AZ mentions it’s been 112 that day…*g*.
I’m doing my errands (also unemployed) early a.m. or after sundown.
(Hang in there, though – after 8 mos. of barely over a month of temp and project work, I’ve been hired for another project at very good pay beginning last week of Aug.
I hope something pops up for you, too, and soon.)

The buck doesn’t stop with Reid, it stops with Obama.

A real leader would be pushing, and hard, to get his nominees on board. But they don’t teach leadership at Harvard, so leadership is a foreign concept to the President.

NOMINATION OF CASS R. SUNSTEIN TO BE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 167, the nomination of Cass Sunstein to be the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The clerk will report the nomination.

The bill clerk read the nomination of Cass R. Sunstein, of Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget.

CLOTURE MOTION

Mr. REID. I have a cloture motion at the desk.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.

The bill clerk read as follows:

Cloture Motion

We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Cass R. Sunstein, of Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget.

Harry Reid, Joseph I. Lieberman, Mark Udall, Patrick J. Leahy, Daniel K. Akaka, Richard Durbin, Sherrod Brown, Patty Murray, Jeanne Shaheen, John F. Kerry, Robert Menendez, Jack Reed, Mark Begich, Tom Harkin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ron Wyden, Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the pro forma session on Monday, August 10, not count as the intervening day and that the mandatory quorum be waived.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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Come September, the Democrats and Republicans will be forced to openly declare their support of or opposition to Cass Sunstein’s nomination in spite of the existing objection(s) to proceeding to a vote on his confirmation. Because Harry Reid – or those from whom he obediently takes his orders, in open defiance of the separation of powers – decided to file cloture on the Sunstein nomination, potential ‘waste of floor time’ notwithstanding.

The delay on Dawn Johnsen’s confirmation vote will probably continue until:

1. A Democrat stops other business in the Senate until a cloture motion is filed on her behalf;

2. A reporter and/or blogger publicly asks Harry Reid why he won’t file cloture on Johnsen (as he did with Sunstein and Koh) and let the chips fall where they may; or

3. A reporter and/or blogger publicly asks Barack Obama if he thinks Harry Reid should file cloture on Johnsen and let the chips fall where they may.

Meanwhile, I hope Mr. Barron – ably filling in for Dawn at the OLC – continues to issue binding opinions on the Executive Branch that check and restrain the unprincipled, poll-driven actions of the political actors in the White House, as Barron has reportedly done with regard to defining as unConstitutional any involuntary admissions from detainees submitted to the thoroughly-politicized Military Commissions for Muslims system (the latest Levin/Reid-blessed version of which – see Title X, Subtitle D – still purports to allow coerced admissions). More power to Barron and his principled advisors, so long as the politicians continue to play games with Dawn Johnsen’s nomination.

And yet…here we are, with Harry Reid. Why does the word invertebrate pop in my mind?

We had to go through layers of them at the DNC. Can’t imagine they aren’t doing the same at any and all town halls — as they have been since the Reagan years at least.

I understood this to be saying that there were metal detecters at townhalls,

I believe it is Go Dog Go!

HAHAHAHAHA!

(Blue Dog jokes indeed!)