Senator Lindsey Graham has stated his intentions to impede
nominations from the white house until more information is released about the Benghazi
attack last year. The Republican from South
Carolina is demanding that congress be allowed to question the survivors of
that attack, and until then he plans on blocking the process to approve the new
nominees to the head of the Federal Reserve and the head of the department of
homeland security. Actions such as this seem to be a growing trend in
contemporary politics. Politicians won’t get there way on a certain issue, and
instead of accepting defeat they’ll hold another, completely unrelated,
government function hostage. The obvious recent example of this is the
government shutdown earlier this year. And now we’re having a similar stubbornness
on a smaller scale. The nomination of someone to the head of the Federal
Reserve has absolutely nothing to do with an attack on a US ambassador over a
year ago. The fact that these two events are even being related together right
now is absurd. Our government leaders
need to focus on the issues at hand. You don’t get to bring unrelated issues to
a standstill because you aren't getting your way. I understand that we need
checks and balances and measures to keep government from changing too
drastically. But these measures shouldn’t be used in inappropriate ways such as
this. The Framers put the Appointments Clause in the constitution so that the
Senate could approve of nominees and make sure the president put forth fair and
qualified candidates. It was not added in order to let a disgruntled senator
negotiate over the ability to speak to witnesses from an international incident.
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