WASHINGTON — Almost every day, the news releases go up on the White House Web site and go out to reporters: “President Obama announces more key administration posts,” they read.

Trouble is, many of those administration posts are being held up in the Senate in a political do-si-do that is traditional on Capitol Hill but seems to have become more tangled than ever in partisanship.

Of the 200 or so Obama nominations pending, some 75 have gotten through committee but were being held up for various reasons in the Senate, administration officials and Congressional staff members said...

sometimes there is no overt explanation. On March 24, Mr. Obama nominated Marisa J. Demeo, a magistrate judge in Washington who is openly gay, for a seat on the Superior Court in the District of Columbia. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination on May 20.

But Judge Demeo’s nomination has yet to come to the floor of the Senate, and no one has stepped forward to say why...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/us/polit...


Bring anonymous obstructionism from the shadows, now.