Alexander Hamilton on The Appointing Power of the Executive:

[El Supremo]

He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.

Federalist Paper No. 76
April 1, 1788

Heard this on Al Franken

BTW Webster on line: obsequious = marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

[madinmaryland]

1. Do you have a snip of this?

I'd love to see what it says.

[El Supremo]

3. You mean a link?

Sorry, I should have posted it.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed76.htm

[madinmaryland]

4. Thanks!!

:hi:

[melissinha]

2. Heard this from Randi

I sure hope Dems bring this up, its a doozy!