Filibuster Busters

[Scrooge McSam]

To those trying to follow this story...

Keep in mind the New York Times is counting Bush's nominees twice in arriving at their figures, since Bush re-nominated his failed nominees in another session.

The authors of the New York Times study explain their method thusly...

[J]udicial confirmation rates include nominees who are renominated in a subsequent Congress. Thus, a nominee who is not confirmed in one Congress, and is then renominated during the next session, is counted twice. We debated reporting the proportion of individuals who were confirmed. We opted not to do this since we think the proportion of nominations that are confirmed gives a better feel of the obstacles presidents and their nominees encounter.

Their full explanation can be found here

Gathering their statistics in this manner insures that Mr. Bush's record with Congress looks worse than it actually is.

Carry on