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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
I'm sorry, did I criticize that here, what I said was that the democrats are do exactly what they whined about when Obama was in office, making them hypocrites. And your article is from where? They are not taking into account the long delays that Trump has to put up with to get his cabinet, Obama got his in a lot faster
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I am not taking the democrats side here. What I am pointing out is the hypocrisy of the Republicans. They obstructed and filibustered like crazy, to historic levels, against Obama and Democrats complained loudly. I never once heard a Republican condemning what the Republicans were doing. On this board, you and others were actually blaming Obama and saying this was a failure of his leadership. Now the situations have flipped and the Democrats are doing exactly as the Republicans did. Now Republicans are pissed and condemning the Democrats. Where was this anger at obstruction before?
You also make it sound like Obama had no delays. Let's look at the numbers.
Here is a chart showing Trump's cabinet and how many days it took for them to be confirmed once they were nominated. The longest was 96 days. He has a couple in the 80-day range and some in the 70-day range. I won't deny that the Democrats are dragging their feet on purpose.
However,
here is another chart that shows Obama had three different nominees take over 100 days to get approved with one of them taking 161 days. The Republicans are not innocent when it comes to delaying things because they are not in power.