Senate Republicans are looking for a fight with the
president.
This much was clear when they used the power of the
filibuster to block the nomination of Rep. Melvin Watt (D-North Carolina) to lead the
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees mortgage giants Freddie
Mac and Fannie Mae.
The blocking of Rep. Watt is significant because it speaks
volumes about Republican opposition to President Obama. This just does not happen to
sitting members of Congress. Although the FHFA is not a cabinet-level
position, no lawmaker has been blocked for nomination to a cabinet post since
1843—that’s 170 years ago.
In 1843, the enslavement of black people was still the law
of the land, and Sojourner Truth began her career as an abolitionist.
Roger B. Taney—the jurist who wrote the opinion in the Dred Scott decision—was
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. And 1843 witnessed the
introduction of the first blackface minstrel show.
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