It is far more common for the Senate to bear down on nominees during their confirmation hearings, as was the case for Treasury secretary nominee Jacob Lew, and then proceed to a vote.
Jacob was born first then Ethan - they survived the birth and I really believed everything would be ok I couldn't imagine them not being around our whole future had been planned with our boys - football on cold Sunday mornings, holidays in Broadstairs paddling in the rock pools and eating ice cream at Morellies - I hadn't planned for them not being there.
Last week, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma - whose government initially backed Nato intervention, but then denounced it - echoed a similar view in a foreign policy speech.