https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.876823164dec

Yeah, but what's Trump's golf score?

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More garbage from Wa Po. Why didn't you throw on a NYT piece along with it?

Democrats are the only reason the cabinet is so slow to fill.

Obstructionist and belligerent idiots who will not support a single thing Trump backs. Even if it is for the good of the country. Obama really did a number on the Democrats, along with Clinton.

Whiners and babies are all the left are these days. Leaderless, adrift, azzhurt liberal, and mostly minority's who are more racists than the whites.

Regards, Kirk

I'm going to need a little clarification on this.

There are 530 other vacant senior-level jobs requiring Senate confirmation but the president has advanced just 37 nominees. Of the 37 nominated 26 have already been confirmed.

So exactly how are Democrats in the Senate blocking or delaying the confirmation of 493 appointments where no one's been nominated?

Prior to the election many of the top conservative journalists on editorial boards condemned Trump for being unfit and unqualified to be president and now we can add unprepared to be president to that. He had no clue as to what the president was responsible for and that left Trump unprepared to fill the positions where he had to provide nominees for the Senate to approve. This had nothing to do with Democrats and everything to do with the incompetent Trump administration.

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"I always had a rule, if the White House is dirty on the inside, it's dirty on the outside." ShivaTD

Based upon the corruption, brutality, inhumanity, immorality, dishonesty, and incompetence of the Trump administration the White House is the dirtiest house in America and there's no known cleanser that with remove the stains of the Trump Administration.

Gawd this is such a dumb lie.
The article clearly states "slow pace of Trump nominations"
Democrats can't obstruct what was never proposed.

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Here is your clarification.From an April 11th article.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...reorganization

Instead of populating the executive branch with activist political operatives as John Podesta did for Obama, Trump is in the process of restructuring the executive branch to make it more efficient and effective at governance rather than partisan warfare. It is the difference between the corrupt Chicago style approach of the community organizer and the sensibility of a successful businessman.

Since I have answered your question, please return the courtesy by explaining why Senate Democrats have slow walked Trump's nominees despite their qualifications. Nearly 1/3 of the nominations are still awaiting confirmation. But the big problem is supposed to be that Trump hasn't built up the backlog big enough.

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If Democrats were confident their nominee actually received more than 80 million votes they wouldn't have more troops occupying Washington, DC than Lincoln had defending the city during the Civil War. Not Joe Biden, Kim Jung Biden.

Actually, that's not it...

Security clearances and new blood are the main reasons...

Nominating someone and THEN having them go through security clearances is risky (see "Matthis")...We've already seen even more examples...

The people Trump wants nominated are going through the security clearances FIRST so they get a clean bill of health...and THEN they'll get nominated...

Security clearances normally take between 90 and 120 days to be granted....Being a non-politician, Trump had ideas about who is cabinet was going to be (and the Democrats did slow-roll them), but he didn't know enough of the bureaucracy to know who would be a good "deputy assistant to State" or some of the lower-level positions...In fact, Trump has avoided the bureaucracy in many cases...

Establishment politicos like Obama and Bush brought in people who have been in political positions for years...if not decades...Trump has shown that he wants new blood in many of those same positions, so the people he's choosing are new to the scene and starting from scratch...Obviously, a much longer process...

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This would also tend to indicate that those nominated won't have the resume necessary for the positions and that will delay confirmation as well. Trump has already nominated and had confirmed appointees that lacked the qualifications for the positions such as Betsy DeVos that had no academic background or experience in education as Sect of Education or those that were clearly the wrong person for the position such as Scott Pruitt that describes himself as "a leading advocate against the EPA" to head of the EPA.

This actually seems to be a Trump plan to destroy the government by appointing those opposed Congressionally authorized agencies with defined responsibilities by appointing people that will intentionally fail to fulfill the responsibilities of the agency.

Does anyone seriously believe that Attorney General Jeff Session's is actually going to enforce civil rights laws like the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act?

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"I always had a rule, if the White House is dirty on the inside, it's dirty on the outside." ShivaTD

Based upon the corruption, brutality, inhumanity, immorality, dishonesty, and incompetence of the Trump administration the White House is the dirtiest house in America and there's no known cleanser that with remove the stains of the Trump Administration.

An agency cannot be evaluated if it lacks the head of the department and all of the federal agencies I'm aware of were created by Congress with defined rolls and responsibilities that must be carried out. Trump can't cut those agencies or understaff them so that they can't fulfill their responsibilities. That would be a clear violation of Article II's requirement that he faithfully fulfill the responsibilities of office.

I can understand that Trump doesn't know this but the rest of us should.

BTW - In searching for Democrats delaying Trump appointments I wasn't able to find any delaying tactics since January or February when Trump was nominating people that never should have been nominated or confirmed. No President has ever made worse selections for the different appointed positions of responsibility. Even Republicans cringed but worried that if they didn't confirm that Trump would pick someone worse.

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"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it's dirty on the inside." Donald Trump

"I always had a rule, if the White House is dirty on the inside, it's dirty on the outside." ShivaTD

Based upon the corruption, brutality, inhumanity, immorality, dishonesty, and incompetence of the Trump administration the White House is the dirtiest house in America and there's no known cleanser that with remove the stains of the Trump Administration.

Shiva, this tends to indicate nothing of the sort. The fact that DeVos, your example, is not a perfessor does not make her unqualified. So too Pruitt. A leading advocate against is unqualified, but a leading advocate for would be?

Nothing wrong with a nominee with a desire to take his department down a notch or two if that's what needs to be done.

None of the above is an attempt to destroy government. Reducing the size, or reallocating resources is what President Trump was hired to do. For some reason, Candidate Trump won. President Trump won. As the winner, President Trump makes the picks.

Bullsh*t...

Only a Lefty would believe that a person with a lifetime in political positions is the best person for the job and a person who has spent a lifetime in successful business is the wrong person for the job...

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