On Congressional "obstruction"

Re: Are Republicans really blocking Obama's judicial nominees at 'unprecedented' levels?

I don’t understand why people seem to expect Congress to rubber stamp Presidential appointees. The President was elected, his appointees were not, which is why it’s so important that they go through a check by elected representatives before they’re handed power. Furthermore, the President is not the boss of the government, but is one branch of government that must be kept in check by the others. This is the whole point of requiring Congressional approval.

Framing delays in appointment as “obstruction” implies that Congress is blocking the process; on the contrary, Congressional review IS the process. No President or nominee is owed a quick appointment by Congress, but the American people are owed a Congress that remains vigilant to abuses of power by the Executive Branch.

What a joke

So the Dems who argued that people need to be compelled to buy gov't-approved health insurance are now saying that insurance companies need to be compelled to sell the plans they outlawed under Obamacare, because it turns out they were better and cheaper.

Compulsion and mandates is the only language these people understand. A choice freely made is a bad choice; only a choice made by the gov't is valid. Even when the gov't makes a bad choice (which the left will never cop to), the answer is not freedom for the individual to make his own choices, but a new gov't mandate.