Angry Over Their Own Ineptitude

Congressional members, mostly Republicans, are angry that President Obama has used the executive branch power to make interim appointments to make Donald Berwick the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. They are upset because they feel he has ignored their responsibility to advise and consent to such appointments. Surely this is a justified reaction to the President’s unreasonable use of a completely legal use of a procedure used by many Presidents before (both Republican and Democrat).

After all, Congress had the ability to hold their hearings and to make their ‘advice and consent’ vote if they had chosen to just do it. But that would not have served their desire to delay the hearings and to try and try and achieve a political benefit out of their own delaying tactic. Is there any American who would not agree with these Congressional self-righteous individuals are being unreasonably taken advantage of just because they didn’t want to do their Constitutional duty and were instead looking for a self-serving opportunity? Of course not! No one expects our elected legislative officials to do their jobs. What responsibility does Congress have to serve the public! Is their oath of office something that they should be bound by, just because they made it on a bible (or other text appropriate to their faith)? No! These are Congress-men/women who are not expected to serve honorably or living up to American principles of civic duty.

And besides, how dare President Obama undertake to put someone into a governmental position to do something to serve the public! He has a lot to learn about being a politician.