Some ... SOME Senate GOP dumbbells think they know better than the President.
Their only role is to ensure the nominees are not crooks or traitors. The political views of nominees have no bearing on why this President nominated them because they serve at the pleasure of the President whose views are the only relevant ones.
Other Freepers have posted that Pudzer knows very well how regulations hamper businesses and that this aspect of his background is what the President wanted.
Similar observations go with the nominations of Tillerson and Mnuchin. Their views are irrelevant as they will be on a leash held tightly by President Trump. It is their background and experience that is important in the execution of the policies of the President, not their views.
In the War Between The States, General U.S. Grant was deemed unacceptable as a candidate for Command of the Union Army because of his love of whiskey, his frequent drunken behavior and lack of social graces. But those things were never relevant. What was relevant to the President was his ability to win battles and to strategize a campaign for defeating the forces of rebellion. Nothing else mattered.
I sense the Congress is going to feel the heat shortly if these kinds of outcomes continue.
The first high profile cabinet nominee to be rejected was Roger Taney in 1834, Andrew Jackson’s nominee for Secretary of the Treasury. Taney was rejected 28-18 over his position regarding the Second Bank of the United States. A year later Jackson appointed Taney to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice.
Rejected Obama cabinet appointees: Bill Richardson for Secreatary of Commerce due to federal investigation into some of his political donors. He withdrew himself from the nomination.
Obama tried to replace Richardson with Republican Senator Judd Gregg. If Gregg had been confirmed it would have given the Democrats a super-majority in the Senate. Gregg ended up withdrawing his name.
And Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle was paid $220,000 in speaking fees from healthcare providers, and was paid $16 million as an advisor to healthcare lobbying groups in the time between his departure from the US Senate and his nomination. Daschle pulled his name from nomination.