Don Surber » Blog Archive » “There is nobody there”: "Barack Obama is too busy posing for magazine covers to actually do the job to which he was elected.

There is a price to be paid when a president throws a party every other night, weekends in Chicago or Camp David and poses for magazine cover after magazine cover.

After 51 days in office, Barack Obama has appointed only 73 people to 1,200 jobs that require Senate confirmation."
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I found this on Instapundit. This number--73 appointments out of 1200 positions--seems astounding, at nearly the two-month point and in a national economic crisis, with major foreign policy problems looming. How can an understaffed executive branch deal with an avalanche of issues?