Come on, Obama - put it ALL on the table RIGHT NOW!
How many thoroughly qualified nominees have been languishing (or have withdrawn from consideration) over the last 4 years?!?! Dozens? Hundreds?!?
And only a handful of gingerly, quietly made recess appointments in response.
"Come at me" is hollow and unimpressive. But worse, it's not even close to the darn point! If the man descended from heaven tomorrow and was nominated for Sec of whatever, Jesus Christ himself would be rejected by the republicans for having long hair or looking too middle-eastern. NO ONE will be acceptable - how many times does this have to be proved to you, Mr. President?!?!
So how about pulling on the bigboy drawers and wading into the fight for once. Tell the nation that there are ___ vacancies right now that are adversely effecting performance of government operations. The republicans have blocked them all - and offer this story and some of the other most colorful rejection excuse stories to expose their unethical, bad faith conduct.
Set expectations for adult behavior and if there is none forthcoming, inform the nation that you will make recess appointments aplenty. THAT would be leadership. THAT would be toughness. Threatening a discussion is neither of those things AND it wastes even MORE time than has already been wasted trying to fill important posts. Enough!! DO SOMETHING!!!
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