Posted on 03/13/2009 1:57:27 PM PDT by george76
As President Obama rolls out one of the most ambitious agendas in US history, federal agencies are struggling to administer hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of new projects and to enact sweeping policy changes with a mere handful of senior staff members in place...
Only about 70 people have been formally nominated to fill the roughly 500 senior posts in the Defense, State, Treasury, and Education departments and dozens of other government agencies, according to White House records. Dozens of nominations are still pending as FBI and White House officials scrub potential nominees' tax returns, financial ties, and former activities in government.
The situation... was spotlighted yesterday when White House economic adviser Paul Volcker called the absence of senior Treasury officials "shameful."
"The Secretary of the Treasury is sitting there without a deputy, without any undersecretaries, without any, as far as I know, assistant secretaries responsible in substantive areas at a time of very severe crisis," Volcker told a Joint Economic Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. "He shouldn't be sitting there alone."
"You can't be the leading economic power in the world with all the problems we have and have a weak Treasury,"
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Who would want to board the Titanic?
So it’s the vetting policy, not the fact that his choces are crooks, tax cheats, and America haters.
Ooops.. make that CHOICES
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has $115 billion in economic stimulus money — almost twice the department’s normal annual budget... So far, only one of 16 senior officials has been nominated to Duncan’s team.
If his slow vetting policy are producing the most corrupt administration in history what would have happened if it was a faster vetting process? But the question remains will it matter when someone is choosing fast or slow from a pool of corrupted people? The answer is it does not matter.
Yeah, it’s the vetting policy, not the fact that there are no interested applicants. HA
I could have told them that they would have a hard time finding any Democrats that are not crooks.
Broadcast the new acronym:
O ne
B ig
A ss
M istake
A merica!
Yea, what you said.
Trying to get a glass of clean water out of a sewer is time consuming.
He must be running out of people he knows that are more of a crooked empty suit than himself.
Just his other solutions, the vetting process seems to be unworkable also.
But by god the candidates won’t have any history of owning a gun dagnabit!
I thought they were going around to the park benches and waking up the candidates!
During the Bush administration I read that lefties were deliberately applying for gov’t jobs, the better to undermine his policies. Maybe some true conservatives should infiltrate!
Wonder why the Sock Puppet is having so much trouble vetting — considering the tax cheats, antisemites, and others who *were* nominated but had to withdraw. Thanks geo.
“I thought they were going around to the park benches and waking up the candidates!”
If Obama did that, he would have a much less corrupt administration.
I might have to steal that one.
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