Posted on 03/27/2021 7:06:08 AM PDT by DoodleBob
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s Cabinet is nearly complete with the confirmation of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on Monday. But the work of building his administration is just beginning, as Biden has hundreds of key presidential appointments to make to fill out the federal government.
The process of building out a government, according to Paul Light, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is “nasty, brutish, and not at all short.”
Biden has about 1,250 federal positions that require Senate confirmation, ranging from the head of the obscure Railroad Retirement Board to more urgent department positions such as assistant and deputy secretaries. Of the 790 being tracked by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan good-government group, 23 appointees have been confirmed by the Senate, 39 are being considered by the Senate, and 466 positions have no named nominee.
According to Max Stier, president and CEO of the partnership, filling out those key posts will likely take the better part of the year — and those vacancies have real-world consequences.
Many agencies, he said, have various sections “that have leadership that really runs that specific component,” Stier said.
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Overall, the pace is slower than that under Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as the Biden team was hamstrung from the start because of what they said was a lack of cooperation from Trump administration officials throughout the transition.
Senate Democrats did not win a majority of seats in the chamber until the Jan. 5 Georgia runoff elections, and then it took nearly a month for Democratic and Republican leadership to agree on a resolution governing the organization of the chamber, which further delayed committee work.
Democrats privately acknowledge that Trump’s second impeachment trial also slowed down the process.(emphasis added)
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I’m not sure.
My view is that this is all run by the Chicago Mob, so it doesn’t make much difference if it’s SlowJoe or Kamalamadingdong at the big desk.
Well aren’t they special. If I’m not mistaken, Trump never got to complete his cabinet.
That's spectacular.
Joe: For the last time, I’m pretty sure what’s killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff.
Secretary of State: But Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.
Attorney General: So wait a minute. What you’re saying is that you want us to put water on the crops.
Joe: Yes.
Attorney General: Water. Like out the toilet?
Joe: Well, I mean, it doesn’t have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that’s the idea.
Secretary of State: But Brawndo’s got what plants crave.
Attorney General: It’s got electrolytes.
Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren’t growing, so I’m pretty sure that the Brawndo’s not working. Now, I’m no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow.
Secretary of Energy: Well, I’ve never seen no plants grow out of no toilet.
Secretary of State: Hey, that’s good. You sure you ain’t the smartest guy in the world?
Joe: Okay, look. You wanna solve this problem. I wanna get my pardon. So why don’t we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave?
Attorney General: Brawndo’s got what plants crave.
Secretary of Energy: Yeah, it’s got electrolytes.
Joe: What are electrolytes? Do you even know?
Secretary of State: It’s what they use to make Brawndo.
Joe: Yeah, but why do they use them to make Brawndo?
Secretary of Defense: ‘Cause Brawndo’s got electrolytes.
I remember that well into Trump’s 3rd year there were still about 300 people who hadn’t been approved by the Senate yet. Did all of them get approved in time to leave?
There. Fixed it.
Nahhhh....Joe is probably waiting for the Carnival to hit town.
He’ll have a chance to recruit from the carnies...which will be a WAY better pool of likely choices
That’s a great question.
“...sponsored by Carl’s Jr.”
If they’re disqualifying pot users this is gonna take a while.
Each and every one MUST be questioned extensively, hour after hour until even the senators have to pee and sleep. Delay, delay, delay. Where have we seen that before?
“More presidentially appointed positions were sitting vacant at the end of President Obama’s first term than at the end of Bill Clinton’s or George W. Bush’s first terms, according to a ProPublica analysis.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/under-obama-more-appointments-go-unfilled
My impression is that Democrats are unprepared to govern. Strange, since they aspire to control starting at an age far below that of the average conservative. If you read the bio’s of various candidates you’ll often see that the Republican has already had a career in business. Most often, in my experience, you’ll find the Democrat lists his degrees, his experience in a job with the Senate or a particular candidate. He is often a good deal younger than the Republican. (At least at the state and local level where I often have to google the Democrat to even find out he IS a Democrat.)
As I recall, Obama left a number of judgeships unfilled, leaving them for Trump. I wondered why and I think I have an answer. The many liberals I have known consider themselves the smartest person in any room. And, in their particular field, they may be right. But expertise in, say, brain surgery, does not necessarily cross over into politics or policy, or, as is often the case, anything else. But these people know that, in their limited view of the world, they are God. (Ask any of them.) Thus, the largest number of professions killed as private pilots are doctors. That’s because, when the advisory says, “unsafe flying conditions” they know better. (Again, just ask them.)
Thus, the problem for any Democrat who arrives at the position where they can appoint people to help them carry out their policies runs into a serious problem. Here, in one paragraph is the problem.
“Obama had always had a high estimation of his ability to cast and run his operation. When David Plouffe, his campaign manager, first interviewed for a job with him in 2006, the senator gave him a warning: “I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it,” he said. “It’s hard to give up control when that’s all I’ve known.” Obama said nearly the same thing to Patrick Gaspard, whom he hired to be the campaign’s political director. “I think I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Obama told him. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.””
How can you give up control when, in your view, nobody, and I mean, nobody, is as good as you?
Great choice - Moron Marty Walsh - Union thug - can barely read or write - destroyed Boston - along with help from Governor Charlie Parker.
Marty will be great destroying the Labor Department
A smaller government would have fewer positions to fill. Just saying.
satan has man boobs?
Great photo of interesting people....
Hearing the names of the Biden cabinet and advisors I am reminded of this quotation:
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy at a dinner honoring Novel Prize winners , Aril 29, 1962
Oh, yeah. /SARC
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