Rush Limbaugh Versus Barbara Boxer
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Rush takes on the California Senator here. An excerpt:
We never needed 60 votes for any of these slime ball leftist jurists that have been nominated in the course of this country's history. We didn't need 60 votes to put a KKK member on the Supreme Court or avowed racists on the Supreme Court, or absolute idiots and dunces on the Supreme Court, but all of a sudden now, with the Democrats losing power ... "Why, there's no check and balance! What we have to do is to require 60 votes to stop these mean corporate-aligned judges," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Rush has a point. Presidents going back at least to Andrew Jackson in 1837 have been getting nominees confirmed with less than 60% of the Senate. Historical statistics are here.
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