MSNBC Panel Trashes Democrat Senator After He Claims VA Is Doing A "Pretty Darn Good Job"
MSNBC Panel Trashes Democrat Senator After He Claims VA Is Doing A "Pretty Darn Good Job" (May 14, 2014)
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Washington (CNN) - Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid struck a significant blow to one of President Barack Obamas judicial nominations Wednesday, as the senators office confirmed that Reid personally opposes Michael Boggs nomination to the federal bench.
Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson told CNN that the Democratic leader feels he cannot vote for Boggs nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, given Boggs past views on abortion, gay marriage and the Confederate flag.
The news sets up a pointed public break between the top two Democrats in the country.
White House spokesman Jay Carney defended Boggs on Tuesday, insisting he is qualified and has a ten-year record as an impartial state judge.
But there is more at play.
Carney also said the nomination was a strategic move. He told reporters that the White House pushed the Boggs nomination as part of a compromise package with Republicans. In exchange for Boggs, and a couple of other GOP recommendations, Carney said Republicans would stop blocking a handful key Democratic judicial nominees.
Our choice is clear: Do we work with Republican senators to find a compromise, or should we leave the seats vacant? Carney said.
But as the White House stands its ground, Reid is revving up opposition, stressing concerns raised by other Democrats in Congress at Boggs confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
Boggs served as a conservative Democrat in the Georgia state legislature from 2000 to 2004. During those years, he supported legislation to post the identity and number of procedures done by abortion doctors online, pushed for a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and twice voted to keep a Confederate emblem on the Georgia state flag.
Those issues formed a drumbeat of doubt Wednesday, with six top Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asking Boggs how he balanced his previous views as a legislator with his current duties as a Georgia court of appeals judge.
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New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath says she will release her election platform when shes ready and not before.
Howarth was asked why she wasnt releasing that platform instead of reannouncing measures as she did Thursday when she talked about increasing minimum wage and cutting business tax.
Wheres your platform? bellowed one television reporter when she was finished touring Torontos Paintbox Catering and Bistro.
We are rolling out a few other ideas over the next couple of days and we will certainly have not only our full platform . . . but also the costing as well, said Horwath, who refused to say when that would happen.
I will be laying out the specifics when the platform comes forward, she said before her handlers hustled her away from reporters.
The Liberals platform is the May 1 budget, which failed to pass, and the Tories have not been shy about where they are heading, including cutting 100,000 public sector jobs, freezing teacher salaries and suspending financial assistance to students and seniors.
Liberal campaign spokeswoman Rebecca MacKenzie said it only stands to reason there is no NDP platform.
No one knows anymore what Andrea Horwath stands for so its not surprising the NDP is having a hard time writing it down in a platform, MacKenzie said.
Asked about polls showing the New Democrats losing ground, Horwath said, There are many, many days left in this campaign where we are really just starting out.
Our platform is one that has some very sensible ideas in it . . . that respond to the priorities of Ontarians and I want to make sure that Ontarians know that they have an option when it comes to their vote on June 12.
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